This paper assessed the global solar radiation potential in Nigerian Defence Academy, (NDA) permanent site Afaka Kaduna, North west Nigeria, for the period of March, April and May 2012. The cantonment lies exactly between longitudes 7º 12’E to 7º 35’E of the Greenwich meridian an...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/3475
María del C. Cotto-Maldonado, Teresa Campo, Eduardo Elizalde, Arancha Gómez-Martínez, Carmen Morant & Francisco Márquez·Chemical Science International Journal·2013
Aims: The goal of this research is to determine the efficiency of different catalysts for the degradation of organic compounds as possible alternative for wastewater treatments. To reach this goal, many objectives should be previously satisfied including the synthesis of differen...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2712
A new series of hydronaphthalene derivatives incorporated into or fused to different five or six membered nitrogen, oxygen, sulpher, heretrocyclic, S- glycosidic or N-glycosidic moieties and other related products had been described. The hydrazine derivative 2 was coupled with br...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/3452
Aims: To obtain the distillation column efficiency as a function of the packing materials used at various feed compositions of binaries and a ternary system to validate the most effective packing arrangement. Study Design: The design was based on the concentrations obtained from...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/3175
The reactions of 2,3-tri-,-tetramethylene-7,8–dihydro-6Н–thieno[2,3-d]pyrrolo[1,2-a] pyrimidine-4-ones (1a,b) and 2,3-dimethyl-,-tri-,-tetra-,-pentamethylene-6,7,8,9-tetrahydropyrido[1,2-a]thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine–4-ones (4a-d), containing active methylene groups in positions 8 or...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2966
The characteristics of plasma sprayed pure red mud coatings have been investigated.The red mud was collected as a waste from aluminium production. In order to understand the coating characteristics, pure red mud was plasma coated. After plasma spraying, the coated materials have...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/3218
A density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out to investigate the relative energies, equilibrium constants and dipole moments of 2-thiouracil in the gas phase and in solutions with different polarities. Solvent effects were examined by means of the self-consisten...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2905
Hydrogen (H2) is considered as the future fuel. The present work on “Bio Hydrogen Production from Pharmaceutical Waste Water Treatment by a Suspended Growth Reactor Using Environmental Anaerobic Technology. This is an appreciated approach at wealth generation through value additi...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2649
Aims: To analyze the nature and peculiarities of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Zimbabwe chemical industry with reference to safety and environmental risks. Study Design: This study took a survey approach. Place and Duration of Study: Graniteside (GR), Willowvale (WV), So...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2759
Aims: The present work aims to study the effect of aromatic structure on the inhibition of biogas biosynthesis, and more specifically the comparative study of benzenediols, methylphenols and chloroanilines isomers on the inhibition of acetoclastic methanogenesis by digested pig m...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/2491