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Marcus Antônio de Freitas Melo

Researcher at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Publications -  83
Citations -  1554

Marcus Antônio de Freitas Melo is an academic researcher from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Adsorption. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 82 publications receiving 1207 citations.

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Characterization and comparative study of pyrolysis kinetics of the rice husk and the elephant grass

TL;DR: In this paper, the apparent activation energy needed to break the bonds of hemicelluloses and cellulose of rice husk and elephant grass during the thermal conversion was evaluated according to the kinetics models of Flynn and Wall and Model Free Kinetics developed by Vyazovkin.
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Catalytic pyrolysis-GC/MS of Spirulina: Evaluation of a highly proteinaceous biomass source for production of fuels and chemicals ☆

TL;DR: In this article, the catalytic pyrolysis of Spirulina (Arthrospira spp.) over several zeolite catalysts using GC-MS was studied to explore the optimum and scalable conditions for the production of stable liquid intermediates via analysis of condensable vapors.
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Evaluation of CoAl2O4 as ceramic pigments

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixture of Co and Al oxalates at a ratio of 1:8 (Co:Al) was obtained from FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and thermal analysis.
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Preparation and characterization of lanthanum palygorskite clays as acid catalysts

TL;DR: Palygorskite clays containing 2, 4, 6 or 10% lanthanum (w/w) were prepared by ion exchange from acid-leached natural clays as mentioned in this paper.
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Adsorption of crude oil on anhydrous and hydrophobized vermiculite

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the adsorption of crude oil on vermiculite samples, expanded and hydrophobized with carnauba (Copernicia Cerifera) wax.