Showing papers in "Journal of Molecular Liquids in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of orthorhombic structured V2O5 and hexagonal structured ZnO was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction analysis, which revealed the nanorod formation of prepared V 2O5/ZnO composites.

TL;DR: In this paper, a similarity transformation is used to reduce the governing momentum and energy equations into non-linear ordinary differential equations, and the resulting differential equations with the appropriate boundary conditions are solved by shooting iteration technique together with fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid flow and heat transfer between two horizontal plates in a rotating system and determined the velocity and temperature profiles as well as the skin friction coefficient and the Nusselt number numerically.

TL;DR: In this article, a new cadmium-selective sensor has been used for Cd(II) over alkali, alkaline and other heavy metal cations, which exhibits a fast response time of 35 seconds and could be used for more than 4 months without any considerable change in response characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the recently published literature regarding the use of agricultural peels for dye adsorption, and their fitting to known models (Langmuir, Freundlich, etc.) was discussed in details.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile approach was used to develop a CoFe 2 O 4 -rGO nanocomposite as an adsorbent to remove Pb (II) and Hg(II) from aqueous solution.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed convection peristaltic flow of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid is analyzed in the presence of velocity, thermal, and concentration slip effects.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of significant parameters such as Reynolds number, micro rotation/angular velocity and Peclet number on the flow, heat transfer and concentration characteristics are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the transport properties of pure ionic liquids, then these properties of the mixtures of ionic liquid with other compounds were discussed, and lastly they reviewed the correlation researches on the transport property of systems including ionic fluid and the molecular dynamics simulation investigations on these systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a differential transformation method (DTM) and a numerical method to calculate the effective thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a combination of experimental and theoretical methods including specially synthesized imidazolium-based ionic liquids, far infrared spectroscopy (FIR) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis have been included in the model of nanofluid and numerical investigation is carried out for different governing parameters namely: Reynolds number, Rotation parameter, injection parameter, Schmidt number, Thermophoretic parameter and Brownian parameter.

TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical investigation is performed to study the effects of different nanofluids on the thermal and flow fields through transversely wavy wall channels with different phase shifts between the upper and lower wavy walls.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combined in situ STM, AFM and EIS study on the structure and dynamics of the interfacial layers between Au(111) and two extremely pure ionic liquids, namely [Py1,4]FAP and [EMIM] FAP, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of magnetic field on free convection heat transfer in an enclosure filled with nanofluid is studied and the governing equations are solved via Control Volume based Finite Element Method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a least square support vector machine (LSSVM) was employed to predict the viscosity of ternary mixtures, and the parameters of the model were optimized using coupled simulated annealing (CSA) optimization tool.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of a ferrofluid on natural convection flow in a cavity with linearly temperature distribution at the presence of an external magnetic source has been analyzed with Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).

TL;DR: In this article, the potential of scrap tire as an adsorbent for removal of nickel ions from water was evaluated, and the results of the present study suggest that scrap tire can be used beneficially for nickel removal from aqueous solution.

TL;DR: In this article, the effective thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluid are calculated by the Maxwell-Garnetts (MG) and Brinkman models, respectively Comparison between Differential Transformation Method (DTM), DTM-Pade and Least square method (LSM) show that LSM is more accurate than other methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the least square method (LSM) and the Galerkin method (GM) are used to simulate flow and heat transfer of nanofluid flow between two parallel plates.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of Brownian motion and thermophoresis on free convection heat transfer in an enclosure filled with nanofluid is investigated. But the authors only considered the effect of angle of turn, buoyancy ratio number and Lewis number on streamline, isotherm and isoconcentration.

TL;DR: In this article, an anaerobic granular sludge-based biochar (AGS-BC) was synthesized and utilized to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the stagnation point flow of CNTs over a stretching sheet with water as the base fluid under the influence of slip effects and convective boundary condition using a homogeneous model is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the empirical Kamlet-Taft solvent parameters for hydrogen bond donating (HBD) ability (α), hydrogen bond accepting (HBA), and dipolarity/polarisability (π*) have been determined for 102 ionic liquids (ILs) α, β, and π* have been measured by means of the solvatochromic methods utilizing three specific dyes Fe(phen)2(CN)2 (Fe), 3-(4-amino-3-methylphenyl)-7-phenyl-benzo-[1

TL;DR: In this article, the catalytic properties of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP), 2-NP and 4-NP were investigated using Fe@Ag-ATP-CA catalyst synthesized in the presence of NaBH4.

TL;DR: In this paper, the recycling of waste rubber tires (WRT) was used to produce a carbonaceous material as adsorbent of an environmental value, which was activated by thermal-chemical process.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-dimensional flow of nanofluid over a bi-directional stretching sheet is investigated using a mathematical model containing the combined effects of Brownian motion and thermophoretic diffusion of nanoparticles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a PANI-ZSP nanocomposite was used for sorptive removal of methylene blue dye from water system and the adsorption data was well studied using various isotherms, kinetics models and thermodynamics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the preferential solvation parameters of sulfadiazine, sulfamerazine and sulfamethazine in ethanol+water binary mixtures were derived from their thermodynamic properties by means of the inverse Kirkwood-Buff integrals (IKBI) method.

TL;DR: In this article, a composite material was prepared by incorporating the clay (Kaolinite (Kao)) into a poly(acrylamide co-acrylic acid) (P(AAm-AA)) through the in situ polymerization method with crosslinker.