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    Experimental Determination of Phase Equilibria and Occupancies for CO2, CH4, and N2 Hydroquinone Clathrates

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    Hydroquinone (HQ) forms organic clathrates in the presence of various gas molecules in specific thermodynamic conditions. For some systems, clathrate phase equilibrium and occupancy data are very scarce or inexistent in literature to date. This work presents experimental results obtained for the CO2–HQ, CH4–HQ, and N2–HQ clathrates, in an extended range of temperature from about 288 to 354 K. Formation/dissociation pressures, and occupancies at the equilibrium clathrate forming conditions, were determined for these systems. Experiments showing the influence of the crystallization solvent, and the effect of the gas pressure on HQ solubility, were also presented and discussed. A good agreement is obtained between our experimental results and the already published experimental and modeling data. Our results show a clear dependency of the clathrate occupancy with temperature. The equilibrium curves obtained for CO2–HQ and CH4–HQ clathrates were found to be very close to each other. The results presented in this study, obtained in a relatively large temperature range, are new and important to the field of organic clathrates with potential impact on gas separation, energy storage, and transport

    CO2–Hydroquinone Clathrate: Synthesis, Purification, Characterization and Crystal Structure

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    Organic clathrate compounds, particularly those formed between hydroquinone (HQ) and gases, are supramolecular entities recently highlighted as promising alternatives for applications such as gas storage and separation processes. This study provides new insights into CO2–HQ clathrate, which is a key structure in some of the proposed future applications of these compounds. We present a novel synthesis and purification of CO2–HQ clathrate monocrystals. Clathrate crystals obtained from a single synthesis and native HQ are characterized and compared using Raman/Fourier transform infrared/NMR spectroscopies, optical microscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis coupled to mass spectrometry. The molecular structure of the clathrate has been resolved by X-ray diffraction analysis, and detailed crystallographic information is presented for the first time

    Measurements of the Mass and Isotopic Yields of the 233U(nth,f) Reaction by the Lohengrin Spectrometer

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    Analysis and results of the measurements of the independent isotopic and mass fission yieldsfor the 233U(nth,f) reaction are presented, which were performed at the Lohengrin recoil massspectrometer in ILL. The spectrometer separates the fission products according to their mass toion charge ratio and kinetic energy to ion charge ratio. Mass yields were obtained by means ofan ionisation chamber after separation by the spectrometer. Isotopic yields were determined byplacing two high-purity Germanium clover detectors downstream the spectrometer. An innovativeanalysis method developed for the Lohengrin spectrometer is presented, from which the final resultsare independent from the previous evaluations, which is usually not the case
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