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Synthesis, Characterization, and NH3-SCR Catalytic Performance of Fe-Modified MCM-36 Intercalated with Various Pillars
No full textTwo series of MCM-36 zeolites intercalated with various pillars and modified with iron were synthesized, analyzed with respect to their physicochemical properties, and tested as catalysts for the NH-SCR process. It was found that the characteristic MWW morphology of MCM-36 can be obtained successfully using silica, alumina, and iron oxide as pillars. Additionally, one-pot synthesis of the material with iron resulted in the incorporation of monomeric Fe species into the framework positions. The results of catalytic tests revealed that the one-pot synthesized sample intercalated with silica and alumina was the most efficient catalyst of NO reduction, exhibiting ca. 100% activity at 250 °C. The outstanding performance of the material was attributed to the abundance of Lewis acid sites and the beneficial influence of alumina on the distribution of iron species in the zeolite. In contrast, the active centers originating from the FeO pillars improved the NO conversion in the high-temperature range. Nevertheless, the aggregated particles of the metal oxide limited the access of the reacting molecules to the inner structure of the catalyst, which affected the overall activity and promoted the formation of NO above 300 °C.Agnieszka Szymaszek-Wawryca gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the
research from the National Science Centre Grant, Preludium 19 (no. 2020/37/N/ST5/00186). Monika
Motak would like to acknowledge financial support from AGH Grant 16.16.210.476. Bogdan Samojeden
would like to kindly acknowledge the AGH Grant “Excellence Initiative—Research University”
for the financial support. Urbano Díaz acknowledges the support from the Government of Spain
through the project PID2020-112590GB-C21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Peer reviewe
Bogdan Bogdanović: Dissident in life, architecture and writing
No full textThe paper analyses selected works of Bogdan Bogdanović (1922- 2010). This Serbian architect, writer and Professor of Architecture at
the University of Belgrade, was the author of numerous monuments devoted to the victims of fascism in former Yugoslavia (1952-81). As the Mayor of Belgrade (1982-86) Bogdanović was a liberal member of the Yugoslav Communist Party and later, a strong opponent of Milošević’s regime. This paper argues that Bogdanović has always been both a dissident and an avant-garde proponent of architectural surrealism and its wider culture. Living with the belief that the vocation of an architect presupposes lifetime devotion to learning and experimentation, Bogdanović carried on with this attitude throughout his life. This approach, spiced up with playfulness and mystery as presented in his early volume Zaludna mistrija (The Futile Trowel) 1968, is the focus of this paper. In this unusual book the narratives are an intrinsic part of the architectural realm including design, drawings of various kinds, and the built form itself
Surrealist signatures of Bogdan Bogdanović
No full textThe main goal of the article is to explore relations of literature and architecture in works of Bogdan Bogdanović, the Serbian architect, writer, politician and dissident. The author focuses on surrealist influences that pervade Bogdanović’s work i.e. famous memorials of WWII, sketches, political and architectural essays and autobiographical narratives. Analyzing both aesthetic and ideological aspects of surrealist signatures etched into this ouvre, the author defines them as a subversive strategy aimed against the communist discourse of Yugoslavia as well as against the modernist discourse of postwar architecture
A transgressive pendulum of Bogdan Loebl’s poetry
No full textThe article discusses the questions of poetics and philosophy in Bogdan Loebl’s poetry comparing two poems: Dopóki bolisz [Until You Hurt] by the aforementioned author and Leopold Staff’s sonnet Kowal [Blacksmith]. The confrontation of the two poems is designed as a ready-to-use lesson plan, especially helpful for students attending the last year of high school in view of the final exam. The article includes the contexts of both genesis of the two discussed poems and functions of cultural discourse
Preparatyka i właściwości fizykochemiczne węgli aktywnych modyfikowanych związkami azotu /
No full textPromotor: Teresa Grzybek.Recenzent: Lucjan Chmielarz, Robert Pietrzak, Janina Milewska-Duda.Niepublikowana praca doktorska.Praca doktorska. Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica (Kraków). Wydział Energetyki i Paliw. Katedra Technologii Paliw, 2014.Bibliogr. s. 128-135.Węgle aktywne i ich otrzymywanie, materiały węglowe, powierzchniowe grupy funkcyjne i ich rodzaje, grupy tlenowe, grupy azotowe, inne grupy powierzchniowe, zastosowanie węgli aktywnych wzbogaconych w azot, zastosowanie materiałów węglowych w procesie selektywnej redukcji katalitycznej SCR NO amoniakiem, preparatyka, metody badań, ogólny opis preparatyki, metody badawcze, badania tekstury, niskotemperaturowa sorpcja argonu, badania składu powierzchni metodą rentgenowskiej spektroskopii fotoelektronowej, analiza termograwimetryczna i termoprogramowana desorpcja, badania sorpcyjne, badania katalityczne, skład badanych katalizatorów, tekstura badanych katalizatorów, rentgenowska spektroskopia fotoelektronowa XPS, XPS analiza powierzchniowej zawartości tlenu, XPS analiza grup zawierających azot, derywatografia TG, termoprogramowana desorpcja TPD, analiza wpływu metody i parametrów preparatyki na rodzaj i ilość powierzchniowych grup tlenowych, modyfikacja węgli aktywnych amoniakiem w wysokich temperaturach, modyfikacja węgli aktywnych roztworem mocznika, modyfikacja węgli aktywnych metodą amoksydacji, analiza wpływu metody i parametrów preparatyki na rodzaj i ilość powierzchniowych grup azotowych, analiza stabilności modyfikowanych materiałów węglowych, podsumowanie badań TPD, sorpcja SO2 na modyfikowanym węglu aktywnym, wpływ utleniania węgli aktywnych na sorpcję SO2, wpływ grup tlenowych i zawartości popiołu, wpływ tekstury na sorpcję SO2, wpływ grup azotowych otrzymywanych metodą wysokotemperaturowej i niskotemperaturowej sorpcji NH3, porównanie sorpcji SO2 węgli aktywnych modyfikowanymi, reakcja selektywnej redukcji katalitycznej, wpływ metody modyfikacji węgli aktywnych na aktywność w reakcji SCR, selektywność katalizatorów w reakcji SCR, stabilność katalizatorów w reakcji SCR, wpływ SO2 na reakcję selektywnej redukcji katalitycznej NO amoniakie
Defending crime: Right to counsel as a natural human right
No full textDouglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues. Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public. --- Bogdan Maksimcev presented on the right to defence counsel within the Canadian legal system. Maksimcev outlined the legal rights of Canadians and discussed the role of defence counsel in people's lives, arguing that every person should have fair access to justice.Not peer reviewe
Bez retuszu George F. Kennan i jego dzienniki
No full textIn his article Bogdan Grzelonski, Polish ambassador to Canada between 1997 and 2000, discusses a book edited by author and historian Frank Costigliola Kennan diaries. He states that the masterfully selected and annotated diaries make for a fascinating reading about Kennan’s professional and personal life. He specifically brings to attention these parts, that are concerned with the Soviet Union, Europe and Poland. B. Grzeloński underline that Kennan raised in his diary issues which still ring clearly today
Catalytic activity of natural clinoptilolite modified with iron by various methods in selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides with ammonia (NH₃-SCR)
No full textNitrogen oxides (NOₓ) are one of the most harmful air pollutants emitted by stationary sources. The mixture of NOₓ has a great contribution to acid rain and photochemical smog formation and ozone layer depletion. In order to abate the amount of nitrogen oxides, governments around the world implemented a number of emission control legislations. Meeting more severe restrictions can be achieved only by using effective methods of NOₓ reduction. One of the widespread and efficient technologies used on the industrial scale is selective catalytic reduction with ammonia (NH₃-SCR). The reaction between nitrogen and the redUCing agent (NH₃) takes place on the surface of the catalyst, consequently, nitrogen and water vapor are yielded. The commercial catalyst of the process is V₂O₅-WO₃(MoO₃)- TiO₂. Despite satisfactory activity above 300°C, it causes some operational problems. The most important are its narrow temperature window and secondary contamination by toxic vanadia and oxidation of SO₂ to SO₃. The mentioned problems can be solved by the replacement of the commercial system by substitutive catalyst, free of these drawbacks. One of the most promising precursors of new NH₃-SCR catalysts are natural zeolites, such as clinoptilolite. It is mainly due to its acidic character, micro- and mesopore texture and high thermal stability. Vanadium active phase can be replaced by iron species that have already found wide application in NH₃-SCR. Therefore, in the presented work, natural clinoptilolite was modified with iron by co-precipitation and adsorption from solution and tested as a catalyst of NH₃-SCR. It was found that even raw zeolite exhibits 56% of NO conversion at 450°C. Catalytic activity of the material was much higher when co-precipitation was applied as the modification procedure. 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The influence of nitrogen groups introduced onto activated carbons by high- or low-temperature NH<sub>3</sub> treatment on SO<sub>2</sub> sorption capacity
No full textActivated carbons modified with ammonia were used as sorbents of SO 2 . The SO 2 uptake was dependent on both texture and type of surface groups introduced onto the studied materials. The most important parameter was the size of micropores, which positively influenced the amount adsorbed. Differing chemical properties had a mixed influence. The oxygen-containing groups negatively affected SO 2 amount adsorbed. N-containing moieties had a positive influence, while the amount of introduced nitrogen was not the major parameter where SO 2 uptake was concerned, possibly due to the differences in the type of introduced surface species
Sociologia proastei guvernări în România interbelică, Editura RAO, București, 2019. Bogdan Bucur: Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania, RAO Press, Bucharest, 2019, Bogdan Bucur
No full textThis review seeks to critically unravel Bogdan Bucur's Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania by using both an emic and an etic approach. From an emic perspective, that is, from inside the book, Bogdan Bucur's intellectual effort is really impressive. Despite a huge amount of data, Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania proves itself quite easy to read thanks to a solid organization. Additionally, due to the fact that the author has employed a classic academic recipe, the abovementioned book is also very coherent. However, looked at it etically, the book loses its internal coherence due to some conceptual and methodological blunders. Conceptually, despite the fact that the book brings to the fore the issue of bad governance and that it includes a theoretical chapter, the concept of good governance is left unaddressed. Methodologically, the author seems to have fallen in the trap of methodological nationalism. A consistent liberal and neo-marxist literature has already addressed the state as a historical institution which is more or less dependent on the international milieu. In his attempt to explain the administrative failures of the interwar Romanian state, the author has completely overlooked the path dependence explanation and the impact former empires had had on post-colonial states. Thus, a confusion between causes and manifestations of bad governance has emerged
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