 Nano Technology-Fueling the Chemical Industry’s Future (1)

 Biocolours-A New Generation Additive For Industries

 Metal-Matrix Composite Processing
 Arsenic Reduction From Water(2)
 War Gases
 Carbon Sequestration Technologies
 Decolourisation of textile dyeing waste water using UV/solar photofentons oxidation
Process(3)
 Chemical Oceanography
  High Temperature polymers
 New Chemical Instrument Uses Missile Technology
 Multiple Effect Evaporation(4)
 Microstructural Modeling of Branched-Block and Linear-Block Polyolefins
 LDAR: Enforcement and Inspection
 Manufacturing methods to control polymorphism
 Air Monitoring Equipments
 Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization 
 High Preformance Polymers
  Emulsification using microfiltration membranes
  Bio-oxidation - A Technology For Sustainable Air Pollution Control
 Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) 
 Recycling of Paper
 Radioactive Waste Management
 Ion spectroscopy
 Natural and Fabricated Nan Biomaterials
 Solar Ponds
 Application Of Linearization Methods
  Particle Surface Modification
 Metal-Matrix Composite Processing
Metamorphic Robots
 Particle Sizing by Laser Diffraction
 Arsenic Reduction From Water

Dyes are abundant class of coloured organic compounds that present an increasing
environmental danger. Textile requires a large volume of fresh water fairly high purities and equally large
volume of waste water after the cloth processing operation. During dye production and textile manufacturing
process a large amount of fresh water containing dye stuffs with intensive colour and toxicity can be
introduced into aquatic system.
While colour brightens our world, they are also to be seen “every where”. We are not talking the nature
here, but products that are created by industries like food colour, textile dye, printing ink, pigments, acids,
even colours used in plastic. Untreated and some times treated effluents from these industries, released into
rivers, lakes or through drainage systems, seep into the ground water and adjoining water bodies.

Nano Technology-Fueling the Chemical

Industry’s Future

Nanotechnology, as a whole is still an emerging area with the need to make progress in both
scientific and technological terms before enormous commercialization of products may occur.
          Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating and characterizing matter at the atomic and molecular
level (at the sub 100 nm level).  It is one of the most exciting fields of science, involving a multitude of
science and engineering disciplines, with widespread applications in electronics, chemical industry advanced
materials, medicine, IT.
          Greek prefix nano (dwarf) refers to dimensions which are one hundredth smaller than current
components in micrometer range.  Figuratively a nano element compares to a football like to football to the
size of earth.
Nanotechnology is the ability to synthesis, manipulate and characterize matter at the sub 100 nm level.  The
applications of Nanotechnology are tremendous.  This seminar highlights the commercial applications of
Nanotechnology in the chemical Industry, includes production of new catalyst, coatings, filtration
technologies and other end products as well as the materials upon which these products are based such as
dendrimers.

Decolourisation of textile dyeing waste water using

UV/solar photofentons oxidation Process

Dyes are abundant class of coloured organic compounds that present an increasing
environmental danger. Textile requires a large volume of fresh water fairly high purities and equally large
volume of waste water after the cloth processing operation. During dye production and textile manufacturing
process a large amount of fresh water containing dye stuffs with intensive colour and toxicity can be
introduced into aquatic system.
While colour brightens our world, they are also to be seen “every where”. We are not talking the nature
here, but products that are created by industries like food colour, textile dye, printing ink, pigments, acids,
even colours used in plastic. Untreated and some times treated effluents from these industries, released into
rivers, lakes or through drainage systems, seep into the ground water and adjoining water bodies.

Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications 

Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), graphene and their compounds exhibit extraordinary electrical properties
for organic materials, and have a huge potential in electrical and electronic applications such as
photovoltaics, sensors, semiconductor devices, displays, conductors, smart textiles and energy
conversion devices (e.g., fuel cells, harvesters and batteries). This updated report brings all of this
together, covering the latest work from 100 organizations around the world to details of the latest
progress applying the technologies. New developments, challenges and opportunities regarding
material production and applications are given.
 
Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for electronics applications
Depending on their chemical structure, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be used as an alternative to
organic or inorganic semiconductors as well as conductors, but the cost is currently the greatest
restraint. However, that has the ability to rapidly fall as new, cheaper mass production processes are
established, which we cover in this report. In electronics, other than electromagnetic shielding, one of
the first large applications for CNTs will be conductors. In addition to their high conductance, they can
be transparent, flexible and even stretchable. Here, applications are for displays, replacing ITO; touch
screens, photovoltaics and display bus bars and beyond.
 
In addition, interest is high as CNTs have demonstrated mobilities which are magnitudes higher than
silicon, meaning that fast switching transistors can be fabricated. In addition, CNTs can be solution
processed, i.e. printed. In other words, CNTs will be able to provide high performing devices which can
ultimately be made in low cost manufacturing processes such as printing, over large areas. They have
application to supercapacitors, which bridge the gap between batteries and capacitors, leveraging the
energy density of batteries with the power density of capacitors and transistors.
 
Challenges are material purity, device fabrication, and the need for other device materials such as
suitable dielectrics. However, the opportunity is large, given the high performance, flexibility,
transparency and printability. Companies that IDTechEx surveyed report growth rates as high as
300% over the next five years. New developments regarding the production of pure CNTs and the
separation of conducting and semiconducting carbon nanotubes are given in this updated report.
 
Graphene, a cheap organic material, is being enhanced by companies that are increasing its
conductivity, to be used in some applications as a significantly cheaper printed conductor compared to
silver ink. Graphene and its compounds are increasingly used to make transistors that show extremely
good performance - a progress that comes with new cheaper production processes for the raw
material. All this work is covered in this updated report from IDTechEx.

Now with activity from 100 organizations profiled

IDTechEx has researched 100 companies and academic institutions working on carbon nanotubes,
graphene and their compounds, all profiled in the report. While manufacturers in North America focus
more on single wall CNTs (SWCNTs); Asia and Europe, with Japan on top and China second, are
leading the production of multi wall CNTS (MWCNTs) with Showa Denko, Mitsui and Hodogaya
Chemical being among the largest suppliers.
 

Opportunities for Carbon Nanotube material supply

A number of companies are already selling CNTs with metallic and semiconducting properties grown
by several techniques in a commercial scale but mostly as raw material and in limited quantities.
 However, printable CNT inks are beginning to hit the market. The last year has shown further
development regarding cheap production, purification and separation of conducting and
semiconducting nanotubes. However, the selective and uniform production of CNTs with specific
diameter, length and electrical properties is yet to be achieved in commercial scale.

Opportunities for Carbon Nanotube device manufacture

There are still some hurdles to overcome when using printing for the fabrication of thin carbon
nanotube films. There is relatively poor quality of the nanotube starting material, which mostly shows
a low crystallinity, low purity and high bundling. Subsequently, purifying the raw material without
significantly degrading the quality is difficult. Furthermore there is also the issue to achieve good
dispersions in solution and to remove the deployed surfactants from the deposited films. Nevertheless,
especially research institutes and material suppliers are working to solve the biggest issues in short
time. The latest work by company is featured in the report.

Key benefits of purchasing this report

This concise and unique updated report from IDTechEx gives an in-depth review to the applications,
technologies, emerging solutions and players. It addresses specific topics such as:
 
 Activities of 100 global organizations which are active in the development of materials or
devices using carbon nanotubes or graphene.
 Application to conductors, displays, transistors, super capacitors, batteries, photovoltaics and
much more
 Types of carbon nanotubes and graphene and their properties and impact on electronics
 Current development as well as challenges in production and use and opportunities
 Forecasts for the entire printed electronics market which carbon nanotubes and printed
electronics could impact

MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR - AN EXCELLENT OPTION FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT

The advent of membranes makes the wastewater treatment easier nowadays. Activated

sludge process (ASP) , which is the oldest technique in wastewater treatment , is combined with
highly efficient membrane filtration to start a sophisticated technique called Membrane Bioreactor
(MBR).It is an efficient process for maintaining a long solids retention time(SRT) at a relatively short
hydraulic retention time(HRT),which is needed for the treatment of waste water. MBR is favored to
all other conventional techniques because the treated water is free from suspended solids and
microorganisms, thus making it suitable for reuse. This unique application gives high degradation
rates, extremely low sludge production and very compact design. This seminar includes the
conventional activated sludge process, description of membrane bioreactor operation, various types
of filtrations that are used in it, its design parameters and applications. It also gives a brief
description of the cleaning of the membrane. The MBR technology has a number of advantages.The
most important thing to be considered when employing an MBR is that it is not economical to run a
membrane bioreactor at lowtreatment capacity and high treatment is much more complicated to
stabilize.So,before,stabilizing an MBr,one should go for technical feasibility as well as economical
feasibility.If these two are satisfactory,then Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) is the best option to treat
municipal as well as industrial wastewater

Reference: http://www.seminarprojects.com/Thread-membrane-bioreactor-an-excellent-option-for-
wastewater-treatment?mode=linear#ixzz1CodxtwAn