Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Shrikant Patil

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• Research Article
  Effect of Bio Field Treatment on the Physical and Thermal Characteristics of Vanadium Pentoxide Powders
  Author(s): Mahendra K Trivedi, Shrikant Patil and Rama Mohan TallapragadaMahendra K Trivedi, Shrikant Patil and Rama Mohan Tallapragada
  
  Vanadium pentoxide powders are very useful in producing ferrous as well as aluminiumalloys, inremoving carbon and sulphur and as catalysts in synthesizing ammonia and sulphuric acid. It is also used as corrosion inhibitor petroleum and chemical processing. In the present investigation V2O5 powders are exposed to biofield. Both the exposed and unexposed powders are later characterized by various techniques. The average particle size is found to decrease with increase in number of days after treatment upto a maximum of 15.9% in 110 days indicating severe fracture at agglomerate/crystallite boundaries. The BET surface area showed a surprising decrease (it should increase as particle size is decreased) of 7.22% in 109 days indicating the surface densification/removal of sharp surface corners/formation of large particles. SEM photographs indeed showed that samples exposed to biofield after.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022.S11-001

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