Ammonia measurement techniques

This method for determination of ammonia losses is inaccurate and gives no information on the factors playing a role in this proces. Specialists in odour measurement techniques have the tools for a much more accurate measurement. In determining the losses over short periods they can look for correlations with the circumstances. This is the first step in contioling this ammonia losses. 

NH3 A number of measurement techniques have been used for ammonia, including a spectroscopic method, denuder methods, and filter packs. 

With high-efficiency processes it may be beneficial or even necessary to control the process by a distinct, critical medium parameter, either for adjusting the optimum feeding rate or for defining a distinct state of the process (harvest time, switching point, etc.). The parameter may be sugar level, concentration of a distinct amino acid, free ammonia, etc. For the state of the art of measuring techniques, see Chapter 3, section 3.4. 

These containers are frequently filled using liquid volume measurement techniques. For ammonia, a 56 % filling density is equivalent to a liquid volume of 82%. 

Note 7. These containers are normally filled by liquid volume measurement techniques. A 56% filling density is equivalent to 82 liquid volume percent for ammonia. 

Hundreds of chemical species are present in urban atmospheres. The gaseous air pollutants most commonly monitored are CO, O3, NO2, SO2, and nonmethane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), Measurement of specific hydrocarbon compounds is becoming routine in the United States for two reasons (1) their potential role as air toxics and (2) the need for detailed hydrocarbon data for control of urban ozone concentrations. Hydrochloric acid (HCl), ammonia (NH3), and hydrogen fluoride (HF) are occasionally measured. Calibration standards and procedures are available for all of these analytic techniques, ensuring the quality of the analytical results... 

TLC-Raman laser microscopy (X = 514 nm) in conjunction with other techniques (IR microscopy, XRF and HPLC-DAD-ESI-MS) has been used in the analysis of a yellow impurity in styrene attributed to reaction of the polymerisation inhibitor r-butylcatechol (TBC) and ammonia (from a washing step) [795]. Although TLC-FT-Raman did not allow full structural characterisation, several structural elements were identified. Exact mass measurement indicated a C20H25O3N compound which was further structurally characterised by 1H and 13C NMR. 

Such nucleophilic displacements are likely to be addition-elimination reactions, whether or not radical anions are also interposed as intermediates. The addition of methoxide ion to 2-nitrofuran in methanol or dimethyl sulfoxide affords a deep red salt of the anion 69 PMR shows the 5-proton has the greatest upfield shift, the 3- and 4-protons remaining vinylic in type.18 7 The similar additions in the thiophene series are less complete, presumably because oxygen is relatively electronegative and the furan aromaticity relatively low. Additional electronegative substituents increase the rate of addition and a second nitro group makes it necessary to use stopped flow techniques of rate measurement.141 In contrast, one acyl group (benzoyl or carboxy) does not stabilize an addition product and seldom promotes nucleophilic substitution by weaker nucleophiles such as ammonia. Whereas... 

Another approach to the organic nitrogen problem is to use persulfate wet oxidation to convert the nitrogen to nitrate or nitrite, in place of the reduction to ammonia [13,14,24,25]. Results are fully comparable with those from the micro Kjeldahl digestion but the technique is far simpler. The precision should also be higher, since the final step in the measurement, the colorimetric determination of nitrite, is much more precise than any of the ammonia methods. 

The present paper focuses on the interactions between iron and titania for samples prepared via the thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl. (The results of ammonia synthesis studies over these samples have been reported elsewhere (4).) Since it has been reported that standard impregnation techniques cannot be used to prepare highly dispersed iron on titania (4), the use of iron carbonyl decomposition provides a potentially important catalyst preparation route. Studies of the decomposition process as a function of temperature are pertinent to the genesis of such Fe/Ti02 catalysts. For example, these studies are necessary to determine the state and dispersion of iron after the various activation or pretreatment steps. Moreover, such studies are required to understand the catalytic and adsorptive properties of these materials after partial decomposition, complete decarbonylation or hydrogen reduction. In short, Mossbauer spectroscopy was used in this study to monitor the state of iron in catalysts prepared by the decomposition of iron carbonyl. Complementary information about the amount of carbon monoxide associated with iron was provided by volumetric measurements. 

Lok, B.M., Marcus, K.K., and AngeU, C.L (1986) Characterization of zeolite addity. 11. Measurement of zeolite acidity by ammonia temperature programmed desorption and FTIR spectroscopy techniques. Zeolites, 6, 185-194. 

Procedure To the sample which contains 20-300 /xg of pertechnetate in 5-20 ml of solution, are added potassium perchlorate solution (2 ml, 1 mg KCIO per ml) and enough NaCl to make the solution approximately 1 M. The solution is heated and neutralized with ammonia. Pertechnetate is precipitated with aqueous 5 % tetraphenylarsonium chloride reagent. The precipitate is filtered, washed and dried, and a 2-mg portion is mixed with potassium bromide (300 mg). The mixture is pressed to form a clear disc by the usual technique. The infrared spectrum is recorded between 10 and 12 /x. The peak absorption is measured at 11.09 /X by the base-line technique. 

NH4CN may be analyzed by heating the salt and trapping the decomposed products HCN and ammonia in water at low temperatures. The aqueous solution is analyzed for cyanide ion by silver nitrate titrimetric method or an ion-selective electrode method and ammonia is measured by titration or electrode technique (Patnaik, P. 1997. Handbook of Environmental Analysis, Boca Raton, FL Lewis Publishers). 

Elemental composition H 4.11%, Mo 48.94%, N 14.29% O 32.65. (NH4)2Mo04 is digested with nitric acid and the molybdenum metal is analyzed by atomic absorption or emission spectrophotometry. It is dissociated to ammonia, which may be measured by titration or by an ion-specific electrode technique (see Ammonia). Ammonium molybdate reacts under acid conditions with dilute orthophosphate solution to form molybdophosphoric acid which, in the presence of vanadium, forms yellow vanadomolybdophosphoric acid the intensity of the yeUow color may be measured by a spectrophotometer at 400 to 490 nm and is proportional to the trace amount of ammonium molybdate. 

Elemental composition H 11.83%, N 41.11%, S 47.05%. It may be analyzed by measuring its decomposition gaseous products, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, either by gas chromatography using an FID or a TCD or by selective ion electrode or colorimetric techniques. 

Elemental composition Be 49.11%, N 50.89%. Analysis may be performed by treatment with HCl. The soluble BeCL solution is then measured for Be by AA or ICP techniques. The ammonia liberated is determined by titrimetry, colorimetry or by ammonia-selective electrode (see Ammonia). 

Elemental composition C 52.96%, 0 47.04%. It may be analyzed by treatment with water. The product malonic acid formed may be measured quantitatively by direct injection of aqueous solution into a GC for FID detection. Alternatively, the aqueous solution may be evaporated and the residue may be derivatized to methyl ester and identified by mass spectrometry. Also, the gas may react with ammonia or an amine, and the amide derivative may be identified and quantitatively determined by GC-FID, GC-NPD, GC/MS or infrared techniques. 

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