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Thiruvenkatachari, Priyadarshini (author)Elevated levels of ammonia in discharged water leads to eutrophication and potential toxicity in water bodies. To combat nitrogen pollution, strict ammonium discharge limits of 1 mgNH<sub>4</sub>-N/L standard is set by the water framework directory. In many cases, current wastewater treatment facilities struggle to consistently meet this...master thesis 2023
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van Ruiten, Joséphine (author)Globally, drinking water sources are polluted with poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The toxicity and persistent properties of these industrial chemicals raised concerns about environmental and public health. As a result, drinking water companies are removing PFAS from drinking water using separation technologies. Anion exchange and...master thesis 2023
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Spruit, Esther (author)Holmium-166 is a promising radionuclide for therapeutic and imaging applications due to its advantageous decay characteristics. However, these applications require or would benefit from a higher specific activity of <sup>166</sup>Ho than that obtained via a <sup>165</sup>Ho(n,γ)<sup>166</sup>Ho reaction by irradiating a pure <sup>165</sup>Ho...master thesis 2023
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Fu, Mingyan (author)Organic micropollutants (OMPs) that occur in the aquatic environment at trace levels are emerging concerns to society. Domestic wastewater is an important source. OMPs end up in surface water and groundwater via conventional municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), penetrating drinking water. Comprising pharmaceuticals, personal care...doctoral thesis 2023
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Thermal energy storage in metal-organic framework materials for climate control of Martian buildingsMadabhushi, Pranav (author)To survive on the surface of a near atmosphere-less Mars, humans must be able to provide thermal energy to buildings to sustain temperature changes from -73°C to 20°C. The goal of the thesis is to create a passively-working thermal battery using materials currently available to humans; it must be the sole heat source to the Martian buildings....master thesis 2023
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Li, G. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author)The molecular-sized void space of the zeolitic micropores is perfect matrices to encapsulate and stabilize multicomponent and multifunctional complexes that can be used as active sites for a wide range of important catalytic transformations. In this article, we discuss and analyze the key developments of the last decade in the catalytic...book chapter 2023
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Zhang, Hao (author), Bolshakov, Aleksei (author), Meena, Raghavendra (author), Garcia, Gustavo A. (author), Dugulan, A.I. (author), Parastaev, Alexander (author), Li, Guanna (author), Hensen, Emiel J.M. (author), Kosinov, Nikolay (author)Non-oxidative coupling of methane is a promising route to obtain ethylene directly from natural gas. We synthesized siliceous [Fe]zeolites with MFI and CHA topologies and found that they display high selectivity (>90 % for MFI and >99 % for CHA) to ethylene and ethane among gas-phase products. Deactivated [Fe]zeolites can be regenerated...journal article 2023
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Ramani, Balan (author), Van Der Stel, Jan (author), Jagers, Gerard (author), Buijs, W. (author)Coal is playing a major role as a reductant and as an energy source in the present world steel production due to its low cost and widespread distribution around the world. At the same time, being the largest contributor to global CO2 emissions, coal faces significant environmental challenges in terms of air pollution and global warming....journal article 2023
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Wei, L. (author)<b>Chapter 1</b> is the introduction, which presents thestate of the art in synthesis and application of these, in fact, bi-functionalmaterials for sorption enhanced CO<sub>2</sub> methanation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:12.5pt"> In <b>Chapter 2</b>, zeolite 13X and 5A supported...doctoral thesis 2022
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Denissen, P.J. (author), Homborg, A.M. (author), Garcia, Santiago J. (author)In this work a diffusion-driven inhibitor transport model is used to help in the design of inhibitor-loaded carriers for anticorrosive primers. The work focuses on inhibitor release at damaged locations of different dimensions exposed to electrolyte and is validated experimentally. The damage dimensions are first simulated to determine the...journal article 2022
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Fu, Mingyan (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Organic micropollutants (OMPs) that occur in the aquatic environment are an emerging concern. Adsorption by granular zeolites and regenerating exhausted zeolites by gaseous ozone is an innovative and advanced treatment technology for removing OMPs from wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent. In this study, WWTP effluent spiked with eleven...journal article 2022
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Agarwal, Umang (author), Rigutto, Marcello S. (author), Zuidema, Erik (author), Jansen, A. P.J. (author), Poursaeidesfahani, A. (author), Sharma, S. (author), Dubbeldam, David (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)A reactor model that deconvolutes thermodynamics of adsorption of hydrocarbon in the pores of zeolite Beta, obtained by Configurational-bias Monte Carlo simulations, from intrinsic, intraporous kinetics of hydroisomerization and hydrocracking reactions, provides a good quantitative description of all significant reactions in the kinetic...journal article 2022
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Wei, L. (author), Haije, W.G. (author), Grénman, Henrik (author), de Jong, W. (author)Hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water using sustainable electricity will play an increasingly important role as an energy and a feedstock vector. Shifting from fossil to renewable resources means that new industrial platforms have to be set up to provide carbon-based fuels and bulk base chemicals to replace the current fossil...book chapter 2022
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Liu, C. (author), Uslamin, E. (author), van Vreeswijk, Sophie H. (author), Yarulina, Irina (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Weckhuysen, Bert M. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author)Identification of the catalyst characteristics correlating with the key performance parameters including selectivity and stability is key to the rational catalyst design. Herein we focused on the identification of property-performance relationships in the methanol-to-olefin (MTO) process by studying in detail the catalytic behaviour of MFI,...journal article 2022
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Torkian, Niloufar (author), Bahrami, Abbas (author), Hosseini-Abari, Afrouzossadat (author), Momeni, Mohammad Mohsen (author), Abdolkarimi-Mahabadi, Meisam (author), Bayat, Ahmad (author), Hajipour, Pejman (author), Rourani, Hamed Amini (author), Yazdan Mehr, M. (author)This paper investigates the synthesis, antibacterial, and photocatalytic properties of silver ion-exchanged natural zeolite/TiO2 photocatalyst nanocomposite. Zeolite is known to have a porous surface structure, making it an ideal substrate and framework in different nanocomposites. Moreover, natural zeolite has a superior thermal and chemical...journal article 2022
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Caro Ortiz, S.A. (author)The separation of C8 aromatic hydrocarbons (e.g. xylenes) is one of the most important processes in the petrochemical industry. Current research efforts are focused on materials that can decrease the energy consumption and increase the efficiency of the separation process. Industrial processing of C8 aromatics typically considers adsorption in a...doctoral thesis 2021
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Gernat, D.C. (author)The growing group of health-conscious consumers drives the development and sales in the market of low- or non-alcoholic beverages. In particular, sales in alcohol-free beer (AFB) has drastically gained in recent years, giving the incentive to further advance alcohol-free products. This thesis comprises the development of a new technology to...doctoral thesis 2021
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Jiang, Shan (author)Zeolites can be used for the adsorption of organic micropollutants (OMPs) from water. In this research, the potential applications of zeolite granules for OMP removal in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were discovered. The adsorption of 18 target OMPs by zeolite granules was fully studied in batch and column experiments. The adsorption...master thesis 2021
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Fu, Mingyan (author), Wang, Jiawei (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Advanced technologies to remove organic micropollutants (OMPs) from municipal wastewater have gained much attention over the last decades. Adsorption by zeolites is one of these technologies. In this study, the regeneration performance of well-tailored granular zeolites loaded with OMPs was evaluated. The selected OMPs were categorized into...journal article 2021
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Zheng, X. (author), Jiang, N. (author), Zheng, Huaili (author), Wu, Yuyang (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author)One framework type of high-silica zeolite only can effectively remove a limited range of organic micropollutants (OMPs) from water. In order to extend the OMP removal range, different types of high-silica zeolites need to be combined in the adsorption process. In this study, Mordernite (MOR) and ZSM-5 (MFI) high-silica zeolite powders were mixed...journal article 2021