Processo de tratamento de efluentes têxteis por oxidação fotoeletrocatalítica e respectivo eletrodo semicondutor de ti/ti02

O objeto da presente patente é um reator fotoeletrocatalítico operando com eletrodos nanoporosos ou nanotubulares de Ti/TiO~ 2~ como fotoanodos, uma rede de platina como cátodo para oxidação fotoeletrocatalítica de efluentes coloridos, sob densidade de corrente constante e irradiação de luz UV, utilizado no tratamento de águas de rejeito contendo corantes ácidos, básicos, dispersos, reativos e agentes dispersantes e efluentes coletados de indústrias têxteis. Ambos os eletrodos mostraram uma performance acima dos métodos usuais removendo não apenas a coloração, mas processando grande mineralização dos diversos tipos de corantes, surfactantes etc. em efluentes da industria têxtil.

Desenvolvimento de um eletrodo modificado com monocamadas auto-organizadas e sua utilização como biossesor

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desenvolvimento de sensor baseado em eletrodo modificado com nanotubos de carbono contendo pentacianonitrosilferratos de metais para determinação de antioxidantes em microemulsão de biodiesel

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Determinação voltamétrica de ácido fólico em superfície de eletrodo sólido com filme intermetálico 'AG IND.2''HG IND.3.02': aplicação em sucos de frutas in natura e industrializados

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Metilação de mercúrio em águas da região amazônica na presença e ausência de macrófitas: experimentos em microcosmos

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Estudo da distribuição e do potencial de metilação do mercúrio em solos e sedimentos de áreas a serem inundadas para aproveitamento hidrelétrico: Vinicius Marques Gomes. -

Pós-graduação em Química - IQ

Avaliação da membrana P81 como agente ligante da técnica de difusão em filmes finos por gradiente de concentração (DGT) para determinação de mercúrio em sistemas aquáticos

Worldwide environmental degradation is an undesirable byproduct resulting from the increasing demand for natural resources. Water sources are suffering intense contamination since they usually receive a huge amount of domestic and industrial effluents - which are mostly wasted without proper treatment - inserting a large number of pollutants in the environment, heavy metals included. Mercury holds great toxicological importance because, under some physicochemical conditions in a water environment, Hg (II) ion turns into methylated compounds stemming from this element, such as methylmercury CH3Hg, which is highly toxic for the aquatic community in which bioaccumulation occurs. Nowadays passive sampling techniques are being developed to enable the analytical procedures which are applied in environmental monitoring. Diffusive gradients in thin-films technique (DGT) has been proven an interesting tool for the determination of labile metal species due to its in situ application. The DGT technique consists of a piston-like device on which the following series of agents is disposed: a binding agent (conventionally Chelex 100 resin), a diffusive agent, usually a polyacrylamide gel, and a membrane filter. Nevertheless, the agents conventinally used for this technique don't usually show satisfactory results in mercury sampling. The main goal of this study was to evaluate the phosphate-treated cellulose membrane (Whatman P 81), an alternative material, as binding agent in the DGT to determine labile mercury fractions in aquatic systems. In this context, we conducted a study of the behavior of this material in relation with system variables, pH and ionic strength. Afterwards we performed immersions of the DGT devices in real and enriched samples and in situ aiming the determination of mercury

Cádmio, chumbo, cromo, mercúrio e níquel nos rios do estado de São Paulo e em peixes do Rio Sorocaba (São Paulo, Brasil)

To verify the levels of concentration of some heavy metals in fishes from Sorocaba river (São Paulo, Brazil) and evaluate if this contamination offers health risks to the fishermen, 63 samples of fishes collected from four points along the river were studied for cadmium, lead, chromium, nickel and mercury, with emphasis in this last, since it is the most toxic and most probable as a fish contaminant. Analyzing muscle samples by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry it was shown that the fishes are not contaminated. None of the five metals studied were present in prohibitive level and the fishes could be judged secure for human consume. It was also analyzed data from four years of cadmium, lead, chromium, nickel and mercury monitoring made by CETESB, from 1997 to 2000, in water from the main rivers of the State of São Paulo. The study pointed out that the majority of the monitored rivers still present contamination by those metals in a level that requires an improvement of the pollution control actions.

Abordagem metalômica quantitativa de mercúrio em peixes da região amazônica

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Fracionamento de mercúrio em amostras de tecido muscular de peixes coletados na área de influência do AHE Jirau - Bacia do rio Madeira utilizando estratégias metaloproteômicas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo comparativo de filmes de corantes fenotiazínicos na superfície de eletrodo de carbono vítreo e adsorvidos em titânio fosfatado e suas aplicações eletroanalíticas

Pós-graduação em Ciência dos Materiais - FEIS

Determinação de fósforo em biodiesel utilizando eletrodo quimicamente modificado com nanopartículas de ferro

Once petroleum is na exhaustible source of energy, alternative fuels are having more prominence. A much discussed option for replacing fossil fuels is the use of biofuels derived from oils or fats, especially biodiesel. The biodiesel preparation is through a reaction named transesterification, a reaction of triglycerides with a short chain alcohol with a catalyst, producing a mixture of fatty acid esters and glycerol. According to ANP (National Petroleum Agency) specifications, biodiesel can have contaminants due to the catalyst or oil used on its synthesis, such as phosphorus, wich can damage the catalytic converter and cause significant increase in the particles emission. This project aims to develop na alternative method using chemically modified electrodes with iron nanoparticles for determination of phosphorus in biodiesel. For the formation of the iron nanoparticles film on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode, was used a iron sulfate solution. The film was formed after 10 successive cycles, with a scanning speed of 50 mV s-1 and a potential range of -0,9 to -1,25 V. To reduce possible oxides on the surface and activate the electrode, it has been subjected to a cathodic polarization with a potential of -1,25 V for 15 minutes in a sodium hydroxide solution. In cyclic voltammograms obtained in the study of the speed of scanning, there is an increase in the intensity of the anodic and cathodic current peaks. The cathodic peak current varied linearly with the square root of scan rate, showing that the electrode is controlled by diffusion. After successive additions of phosphate there is a linear variation in the current peak in the concentration range of 1,0 x 10-7 a 1,0 x 10-6 mol L-1. To determine if the concentration of phosphorus in real sample, the method of adding standard was used by adding aliquots of phosphate ions in the solution containing soy biodiesel extracted with ....

Determinação in situ de metilmercúrio e mercúrio (II) em sistemas aquáticos nas proximidades de refinarias de petróleo, utilizando a técnica difusão em filmes finos por gradiente de concentração (DGT)

Pós-graduação em Geociências e Meio Ambiente - IGCE

Desenvolvimento de detector eletroquímico para cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência baseado em um eletrodo modificado com nanopartículas metálicas para determinação de ácidos carboxílicos em vinhaça de cana-de-açúcar

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Estudo da ativação da superfície de alumínio por íons de mercúrio e formação do amálgama Hg-Al: identificação do produto e cinética de reação

The activation of aluminum surface has the most various purposes as for example the search for the surface activation mechanism and the corrosion products by mercury ions. The objective of this work is to study the reactivity of the surface of aluminum metal when activated by mercury ions (Hg2+), with the consequent formation of an Al-Hg amalgam. Results demonstrate that the kinetics of the reaction, by measuring the mass change with time of the corrosion product formed between Al and Hg, and analysis by infrared spectroscopy (IR) that the product of the reaction between the amalgam, located on the surface, and the atmospheric oxygen is Al2O3 (aluminum hydroxide). The results also indicate that the kinetics of the reaction between the amalgam (Hg-Al) and atmospheric oxygen is of first order and reach a region where there is no more formation of product