• 2-Naphthol Impregnation Prior to Steam Explosion Promotes LPMO-Assisted Enzymatic Saccharification of Spruce and Yields High-Purity Lignin 

      Hansen, Line Degn; Østensen, Martin; Arstad, Bjørnar; Tschentscher, Roman; Eijsink, Vincent; Horn, Svein Jarle; Varnai, Aniko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The recent discovery that impregnation with a carbocation scavenger may improve the enzymatic saccharification of steam-exploded softwood has brought a softwood-based biorefinery closer to reality. However, the nature of ...
    • Characterization and evaluation of synthetic Dawsonites as CO2 sorbents 

      Lundvall, Fredrik; Kalantzopoulos, Georgios N.; Wragg, David; Arstad, Bjørnar; Blom, Richard; Sjåstad, Anja Olafsen; Fjellvåg, Helmer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • Comparing the Nature of Active Sites in Cu-loaded SAPO-34 and SSZ-13 for the Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol 

      Kvande, Karoline; Pappas, Dimitrios; Dyballa, Michael Martin; Buono, Carlo; Signorile, Matteo; Borfecchia, Elisa; Lomachenko, Kirill A.; Arstad, Bjørnar; Bordiga, Silvia; Berlier, Gloria; Olsbye, Unni; Beato, Pablo; Svelle, Stian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      On our route towards a more sustainable future, the use of stranded and underutilized naturalgastoproducechemicalswouldbeagreataidinmitigatingclimatechange,duetothereduced CO2 emissions in comparison to using petroleum. ...
    • Continuous hydrogen production by sorption enhanced steam methane reforming (SE-SMR) in a circulating fluidized bed reactor: Sorbent to catalyst ratio dependencies 

      Arstad, Bjørnar; Prostak, Joanna; Blom, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)
      Continuous hydrogen production by sorption enhanced steam methane reforming (SE-SMR) has been studied using a circulating fluidized bed reactor with calcined natural dolomite as CO2 sorbent and Ni/NiAl2O4 as catalyst. A ...
    • CrystalGrower: a generic computer program for Monte Carlo modelling of crystal growth 

      Hill, Adam R.; Cubillas, Pablo; Gebbie-Rayet, James T.; Trueman, Mollie; de Bruyn, Nathan; Harthi, Zulaikha al; Pooley, Rachel J. S.; Attfield, Martin P.; Blatov, Vladislav A.; Proserpio, Davide M.; Gale, Julian D.; Akporiaye, Duncan; Arstad, Bjørnar; Anderson, Michael W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A Monte Carlo crystal growth simulation tool, CrystalGrower, is described which is able to simultaneously model both the crystal habit and nanoscopic surface topography of any crystal structure under conditions of variable ...
    • Effects of Ga Substitution on the Local Structure of Na2Zn2TeO6 

      Hempel, Frida Sveen; Bianchini, Federico; Arstad, Bjørnar; Fjellvåg, Helmer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In the work presented here, we prepared Ga-substituted NZTO (Na2–xZn2–xGaxTeO6, x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20) layered materials with a soft chemical, citric acid-based synthesis method and characterized these by means ...
    • Factors Determining Microporous Material Stability in Water: The Curious Case of SAPO-37 

      Kalantzopoulos, Georgios N.; Lundvall, Fredrik; Thorshaug, Knut; Lind, Anna Maria; Vajeeston, Ponniah; Dovgaliuk, Iurii; Arstad, Bjørnar; Wragg, David; Fjellvåg, Helmer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Silicoaluminophosphates (SAPOs) are a special class of zeolites that, due to their acidic and shape-selective properties, play a major role in ion exchange and separation processes and in crude oil cracking. SAPO-37 has ...
    • In-situ XRD studies of dolomite based CO2 sorbents 

      Arstad, Bjørnar; Lind, Anna Maria; Andreassen, Kari Anne; Pierchala, Joanna; Thorshaug, Knut; Blom, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Calcined dolomite (a CaOMgO material derivative of the natural mineral dolomite) has the potential as a CO2 sorbent working at high temperatures (500-650 °C) in processes like post combustion carbonate-looping, or in sorbent ...
    • Influence of Cu-speciation in mordenite on direct methane to methanol conversion: Multi-Technique characterization and comparison with NH3 selective catalytic reduction of NOx 

      Pappas, Dimitrios; Kvande, Karoline; Kalyva, Maria Evangelou; Dyballa, Michael Martin; Lomachenko, Kirill A.; Arstad, Bjørnar; Borfecchia, Elisa; Bordiga, Silvia; Olsbye, Unni; Beato, Pablo; Svelle, Stian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The direct conversion of methane to methanol has the potential of substantially reducing methane emissions and flaring, as such a process might provide an alternative for remote natural gas locations. In this report, we ...
    • Low-Viscosity Nonaqueous Sulfolane-Amine-Methanol Solvent Blend for Reversible CO2 Capture 

      Wagaarachchige, Jayangi Dinesha; Idris, Zulkifli; Arstad, Bjørnar; Kummamuru, Nithin Bharadwaj; Sætre, Kai Arne; Halstensen, Maths; Jens, Klaus-Joachim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this work, the absorption–desorption performance of CO2 in six new solvent blends of amine (diisopropylamine (DPA), 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP), methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), diethanolamine (DEA), diisopropanolamine ...
    • Methane to methanol: structure-activity relationships for Cu-CHA 

      Pappas, Dimitrios; Borfecchia, Elisa; Dyballa, Michael Martin; Pankin, Ilia A.; Lomachenko, Kirill A.; Martini, Andrea; Signorile, Matteo; Teketel, Shewangizaw; Arstad, Bjørnar; Berlier, Gloria; Lamberti, Carlo; Bordiga, Silvia; Olsbye, Unni; Lillerud, Karl Petter; Svelle, Stian; Beato, Pablo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Cu-exchanged zeolites possess active sites that are able to cleave the C–H bond of methane at temperatures ≤200 °C, enabling its selective partial oxidation to methanol. Herein we explore this process over Cu-SSZ-13 ...
    • NMR spectroscopic investigations into the mechanism of absorption and desorption of CO2 by (tris-pyridyl)amine Zn complexes 

      Arstad, Bjørnar; Blom, Richard; Didriksen, Terje; Frøseth, Morten; Heyn, Richard H.; Øien-Ødegaard, Sigurd (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      The Zn complex [(NN3)Zn(OH)]2(NO3)2 (1(NO3)2, NN3 = tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine) reacts with atmospheric CO2 to form a zinc carbonate species {[(NN3)Zn]3CO3}(NO3)4 (2(NO3)4), isolable as a crystalline product from organic ...
    • Predicting crystal growth via a unified kinetic three-dimensional partition model 

      Anderson, Michael W; Gebbie-Rayet, James T.; Hill, Adam R.; Farida, Nani; Attfield, Martin P.; Cubillas, Pablo; Blatov, Vladislav A.; Proserpio, Davide M.; Akporiaye, Duncan; Arstad, Bjørnar; Gale, Julian D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Understanding and predicting crystal growth is fundamental to the control of functionality in modern materials. Despite investigations for more than one hundred years1,2,3,4,5, it is only recently that the molecular ...
    • Process simulation of Ca-looping processes: review and guidelines 

      Romano, Matteo C.; Martinez, Isabel; Murillo, Ramón; Arstad, Bjørnar; Blom, Richard; Ozcan, Dursun Can; Ahn, Hyungwoong; Brandani, Stefano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Ca-looping is one of the most promising processes for CO2 capture in short to medium term plants, which can be applied for both post-combustion and pre-combustion layouts. The recent successful operations of MW-scale pilot ...
    • SAPO-37 microporous catalysts: revealing the structural transformations during template removal 

      Kalantzopoulos, Georgios N.; Lundvall, Fredrik; Lind, Anna Maria; Arstad, Bjørnar; Chernyshov, Dmitry; Fjellvåg, Helmer; Wragg, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      We have studied the structural behavior of SAPO-37 during calcination using simultaneous in situ powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and mass spectroscopy (MS) in addition to ex situ thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and ...
    • Selective Charging Behavior in an Ionic Mixture Electrolyte- Supercapacitor System for Higher Energy and Power 

      Wang, Xuehang; Mehandzhiyski, Aleksandar Yordanov; Arstad, Bjørnar; Van Aken, Katherine L.; Tyler S., Mathis; Gallegos, Alejandro; Tian, Ziqi; Ren, Dingding; Sheridan, Edel; Grimes, Brian Arthur; Jiang, De-en; Wu, Jianzhong; Gogotsi, Yury; Chen, De (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Ion–ion interactions in supercapacitor (SC) electrolytes are considered to have significant influence over the charging process and therefore the overall performance of the SC system. Current strategies used to weaken ionic ...
    • Selective Charging Behavior in an Ionic Mixture Electrolyte- Supercapacitor System for Higher Energy and Power 

      Wang, Xuehang; Mehandzhiyski, Aleksandar Yordanov; Arstad, Bjørnar; Van Aken, Katherine L.; Tyler S., Mathis; Gallegos, Alejandro; Tian, Ziqi; Ren, Dingding; Sheridan, Edel; Grimes, Brian Arthur; Jiang, De-en; Wu, Jianzhong; Gogotsi, Yury; Chen, De (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Ion–ion interactions in supercapacitor (SC) electrolytes are considered to have significant influence over the charging process and therefore the overall performance of the SC system. Current strategies used to weaken ionic ...
    • Structural changes in SAPO-34 due to hydrothermal treatment. A NMR, XRD, and DRIFTS study 

      Arstad, Bjørnar; Lind, Anna Maria; Cavka, Jasmina Hafizovic; Thorshaug, Knut; Akporiaye, Duncan; Wragg, David; Fjellvåg, Helmer; Grønvold, Arne; Fuglerud, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      When SAPO-34 is used as an industrial MTO catalyst, structural transformations leading to permanent deactivation are inevitable. The performance loss is linked principally to a redistribution of Si in the material, leading ...
    • Structural evolution of water and hydroxyl groups during thermal, mechanical and chemical treatment of high purity natural quartz 

      Gawel, Bartlomiej; Ulvensøen, Anna; Lukaszuk, Katarzyna Anna; Arstad, Bjørnar; Muggerud, Astrid Marie Flattum; Erbe, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Fused silica crucibles are commonly used in the fabrication process of solar grade silicon ingots. These crucibles are manufactured from high purity natural quartz sand and as a consequence, their properties are influenced ...
    • Studies of Ca-based high temperature sorbents for CO2 capture 

      Arstad, Bjørnar; Spjelkavik, Aud I.; Andreassen, Kari Anne; Lind, Anna Maria; Prostak, Joanna; Blom, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      The natural mineral dolomite has been calcined and impregnated with Ti-, Zr-, Al-nanoparticle suspensions with the aim of improving the cyclic stabilities in high temperature CO2 sorption processes. After impregnation and ...