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The coal blending with various ratios changes the compositions of CaO, MgO, and Fe2O3, which can form some low-melting-point eutectic compounds with SiO2 and Al2O3 under high temperatures, inhibit the formation of mullite, and thus decrease the ash FT. The coal ash FT was found to have a good linear relation with the ash compositions, which can sever as a reference to the coal blending. According to the model parameters, it is shown that Mg has the most significant promoting effect on the decrease in FT of the coal ash. The caking tendency of fly ash increases with the rising Ca content and an excessive Ca-based fluxing agent used in the coal blending will lead to the aggregation of the Ca-rich clasts around the fly ash particle, resulting in the plugging of the waste heat boiler in the gasifier. Therefore, the Mg-based fluxing agent is more promising to improve the ash fusion performance and reduce the caking tendency of the coal fly ash.In this study, seven derivatives of salicylaldehyde thiosemicarbazones (1-7) were synthesized by refluxing substituted thiosemicarbazide and salicylaldehyde in an ethanol solvent. Different spectral techniques (UV-vis, IR, and NMR) were used to analyze the prepared compounds (1-7). Accompanied by the experimental study, quantum chemical studies were also carried out at the M06/6-311G(d,p) level. A comparative analysis of the UV-visible spectra and vibrational frequencies between computational and experimental findings was also performed. These comparative data disclosed that both studies were observed to be in excellent agreement. CDK and cancer Furthermore, natural bond orbital investigations revealed that nonbonding transitions were significant for the stability of prepared molecules. In addition, frontier molecular orbital (FMO) findings described that a promising charge transfer phenomenon was found in 1-7. The energies of FMOs were further used to determine global reactivity parameters (GRPs). These GRP factors revealed that all synthesized compounds (1-7) contain a greater hardness value (η = 2.1 eV) and a lower softness value (σ = 0.24 eV), which indicated that these compounds were less reactive and more stable. Nonlinear optical (NLO) evaluation displayed that compound 5 consisted of greater values of linear polarizability ⟨α⟩ and third-order polarizability ⟨γ⟩ of 324.93 and 1.69 × 105 a.u., respectively, while compound 3 exhibited a larger value of second-order polarizability (βtotal) of 508.41 a.u. The NLO behavior of these prepared compounds may be significant for the hi-tech NLO applications.Reverse osmosis (RO) concentrate produced in the municipal solid waste (MSW) leachate treatment process is extremely hard to be treated because of its high color, high salt content, and high concentration of recalcitrant organic compounds. A new multichannel flow reactor with electrode gaps of 5 mm was designed to desalinate and remove organics simultaneously from the RO leachate concentrate (ROLC) by electrochemical oxidation process using the RuO2/IrO2-coated titanium plate (RuO2/IrO2-Ti) as the anodes. The effects of the process parameters of current density (I A), superficial circulating velocity (U L), etc. on the removal efficiency (RE) of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and average energy consumption () were investigated. The results illustrated that after 3 h of treatment, the RE of COD, Cl-, and color could reach as high as 96.5, 96.7, and 99.6%, respectively. Besides, the of the electrochemical oxidation treatment process is as low as 40.98 kWh/(kg COD), and a new mechanism of the simultaneous removal of COD and desalination has been proposed. This work provides an alternative technology for the treatment of MSW leachate RO concentrate.The development of shape-controlled noble metal nanocrystals such as nanowires (NWs) is progressing steadily owing to their potentially novel catalytic properties and the ease with which they can be prepared by reducing the metal ions in a particular solution as capping agents. Recently, many reports have been presented on the preparation of shape-controlled Au nanocrystals, such as nanostars and nanoflowers, by a one-pot method using 2-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinyl] ethanesulfonic acid (HEPES) as capping and reducing agents. The catalytic activity is depressed due to the adsorption of the capping agent onto a Au surface. Since HEPES has low binding affinities on the Au surface, shape-controlled nanocrystals obtained using HEPES are effective for application as nanocatalysts because HEPES was easily removed from the Au surface. In this study, we report the preparation of AuNWs, with an average diameter of 7.7 nm and lengths of a few hundred nanometers, in an aqueous solution containing HEPES and sodium borohydride. A γ-Al2O3-supported AuNW (AuNW/γ-Al2O3) catalyst was obtained using catalytic supporters and a water extraction method that removed HEPES from the Au surface without morphological changes. AuNW/γ-Al2O3 was then utilized to catalyze the oxidation of 1-phenylethyl alcohol to acetophenone. The formation rate of acetophenone over AuNW/γ-Al2O3 was 3.2 times that over γ-Al2O3-supported spherical Au nanoparticles (AuNP/γ-Al2O3) with almost the same diameter.This paper presents a simple strategy for manufacturing bifunctional electrocatalysts-graphene nanosheets (GNS) coated with an ultrafine NiCo-MOF as nanocomposites (denoted NiCo-MOF@GNS) having a N-doped defect-rich and abundant cavity structure through one-pool treatment of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The precursors included N-doped dodecahedron-like graphene nanosheets (GNS), in which the NiCo-MOF was encompassed within the inner cavities of the GNS (NiCo-MOF@GNS) at the end or middle portion of the tubular furnace with several graphene layers. Volatile imidazolate N x species were trapped by the NiCo-MOF nanosheets during the pyrolysis process, simultaneously inserting N atoms into the carbon matrix to achieve the defect-rich porous nanosheets and the abundantly porous cavity structure. With high durability, the as-prepared nanomaterials displayed simultaneously improved performance in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and photocatalysis. In particular, our material NiCo-MOF@GNS-700 exhibited excellent electrocatalytic activity, including a half-wave potential of 0.