Absorption, Dilute Case

Example 7 Multicomponent Absorption Dilute Case Air entering a tower contains 1 percent acetaldehyde and 2 percent acetone. The liquid-to-gas ratio for optimum acetone recovery is L /Gm = 3.1 mol/mol when the fresh-solvent temperature is 31.5°C. The value of y°/x for acetaldehyde has been measured as 50 at the boiling point of a dilute solution, 93.5°C. What will the percentage recovery of acetaldehyde be under conditions of optimal acetone recovery ... 

Prepare approximately 10% solution of each solid in a range of solvents. Run the absorption spectra in the range of 200-900 nm. Locate the wavelengths of maximum absorption. In case of very intense bands, dilute to obtain absorbances within the chart range. Comment on any relation between these bands and the solvent. Er parameter or Donor and Acceptor numbers of die solvlents as defined in the two references. 

The analysis of gas absorption depends on fluid mechanics and on mass transfer. The fluid mechanics determines the acceptable range of gas and liquid fluxes, which are adjusted by changing the cross-sectional area of the tower. The mass transfer eoeffi-cients determine the rate of absorption and hence the height of the paeked tower. This height can be estimated by either algebraic or geometric methods. The algebraic formulation is simple for the common case of a dilute solute, a case detailed in Section 10.3. This case depends on three key relations an overall mole balance, a thermodynamic equilibrium, and a rate equation. This dilute case is the easiest way to learn about absorption. 

Endo-exo product mixtures were isolated using the following procedure. A solution of cyclopentadiene (concentration 2-10" M in water and 0.4 M in oiganic solvents) and the dienophile (concentration 1-5 mM) in the appropriate solvent, eventually containing a 0.01 M concentration of catalyst, was stirred at 25 C until the UV-absorption of the dienophile had disappeared. The reaction mixture (diluted with water in the case of the organic solvents) was extracted with ether. The ether layer was washed with water and dried over sodium sulfate. After the evaporation of the ether the... 

Akita Another case of multicomponent dilute diffusion of significant practical interest is that of gases in aqueous electrolyte solutions. Many gas-absorption processes use electrolyte solutions. Akita presents experimentally tested equations for this case. 

The simplest possible case occurs when (1) both the operating and the equilibrium hues are straight (i.e., there are dilute solutions), (2) Henry s law is valid y /x = yifXj = m), and (3) absorption heat effects are negligible. Under these conditions, the integral term in Eq. (14-20) may be computed by Colburn s equation [Trans. Am. Jn.st. Chem. Eng., 35,211 (1939)] ... 

With a reactive solvent, the mass-transfer coefficient may be enhanced by a factor E so that, for instance. Kg is replaced by EKg. Like specific rates of ordinary chemical reactions, such enhancements must be found experimentally. There are no generalized correlations. Some calculations have been made for idealized situations, such as complete reaction in the liquid film. Tables 23-6 and 23-7 show a few spot data. On that basis, a tower for absorption of SO9 with NaOH is smaller than that with pure water by a factor of roughly 0.317/7.0 = 0.045. Table 23-8 lists the main factors that are needed for mathematical representation of KgO in a typical case of the absorption of CO9 by aqueous mouethauolamiue. Figure 23-27 shows some of the complex behaviors of equilibria and mass-transfer coefficients for the absorption of CO9 in solutions of potassium carbonate. Other than Henry s law, p = HC, which holds for some fairly dilute solutions, there is no general form of equilibrium relation. A typically complex equation is that for CO9 in contact with sodium carbonate solutions (Harte, Baker, and Purcell, Ind. Eng. Chem., 25, 528 [1933]), which is... 

Laby21 demonstrated in 1930, with a photographic plate as detector, that copper or iron in zinc could be detected in concentrations approaching 1 part per million by weight. To be sure, he used electron excitation so that absorption effects were minimized (7.10). By contrast, attempts made in the authors laboratory to estimate alkaline-earth metals in brines were unsuccessful, primarily because of the high absorption effects that accompanied x-ray excitation. The use of dilution with a relatively transparent solvent can sometimes reduce or eliminate absorption effects (7.8), but this procedure will fail if the element to be determined is present at too low a concentration in the presence of another substance (the salt in brine in the example cited) primarily responsible for the absorption effect. A case in which dilution is helpful in connection with the absorption effect of the. element sought is that of tetraethyllead fluid in gasoline (7.13). 

Fenton. The maximum performance is usually observed at pH slightly below 3 because of two reasons (i) colloids that begin to precipitate at pH above 3 via the binuclear species (Q 2,2) are suppressed and (ii) the concentration of Fe(OH) ( i) is close to its maximum. Fe(OH ) species possess a high absorption coefficient under irradiation and maximize the oxidation yield. This holds for diluted systems. When the total Fe concentration is increased, the binuclear species become dominant and precipitation is favored. Figure 6.3b clarifies this aspect by showing the Fe2(OH)2 + concentration profiles for increasing Fe concentrations. In those cases, lowering the pH to about 2 is favorable. 

Many of the published methods for the determination of metals in seawater are concerned with the determination of a single element. Single-element methods are discussed firstly in Sects. 5.2-5.73. However, much of the published work is concerned not only with the determination of a single element but with the determination of groups of elements (Sect. 5.74). This is particularly so in the case of techniques such as graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry, Zeeman background-corrected atomic absorption spectrometry, and inductively coupled plasma spectrometry. This also applies to other techniques, such as voltammetry, polarography, neutron activation analysis, X-ray fluroescence spectroscopy, and isotope dilution techniques. 

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