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It must be emphasi2ed that any energy costs for the separation in the tradeoffs shown in Fig. 10.7 must be taken within the context of the overall heat integration problem. The separation might after all be driven by heat recovery. 

Finally it is likely that attention will be focused on emissions of polynuclear aromatics (PNA) in diesel fuels. Currently the analytical techniques for these materials in exhaust systems are not very accurate and will need appreciable improvement. In conventional diesel fuels, emissions of PNA thought to be carcinogenic do not exceed however, a few micrograms per km, that is a car will have to be driven for several years and cover at least 100,000 km to emit one gram of benzopyrene for example These already very low levels can be divided by four if deeply hydrotreated diesel fuels are used. 

Resolution at tire atomic level of surfactant packing in micelles is difficult to obtain experimentally. This difficulty is based on tire fundamentally amoriDhous packing tliat is obtained as a result of tire surfactants being driven into a spheroidal assembly in order to minimize surface or interfacial free energy. It is also based upon tire dynamical nature of micelles and tire fact tliat tliey have relatively short lifetimes, often of tire order of microseconds to milliseconds, and tliat individual surfactant monomers are coming and going at relatively rapid rates. 

It sometimes happens that two or more bubbles coalesce to form one that hardly rises at all in the narrow part of the nitrometer tube this may be driven up to the rest of the collected gas at the top of the tube by gently squeezing the rubber pressure tubing connecting the movable reservoir J with the nitrometer proper. 

The aldol reaction is an equilibrium which can be "driven" to completion. 

In the traditional view hydrophobic interactions are assumed to be driven by the release of water molecules from the hydrophobic hydration shells upon the approach of one nonpolar solute to another. Although the ideas about the structure of the hydrophobic hydration shell have changed, this view is essentially unaltered... 

Then N-Boc-O-benzylserine is coupled to the free amino group with DCC. This concludes one cycle (N° -deprotection, neutralization, coupling) in solid-phase synthesis. All three steps can be driven to very high total yields (< 99.5%) since excesses of Boc-amino acids and DCC (about fourfold) in CHjClj can be used and since side-reactions which lead to soluble products do not lower the yield of condensation product. One side-reaction in DCC-promoted condensations leads to N-acylated ureas. These products will remain in solution and not reaa with the polymer-bound amine. At the end of the reaction time, the polymer is filtered off and washed. The times consumed for 99% completion of condensation vary from 5 min for small amino acids to several hours for a bulky amino acid, e.g. Boc-Ile, with other bulky amino acids on a resin. A new cycle can begin without any workup problems (R.B. Merrifield, 1969 B.W. Erickson, 1976 M. Bodanszky, 1976). 

IS reversible but can be driven to completion by several techniques Removing the water formed m the reaction for example allows benzene sulfonic acid to be obtained m vir tually quantitative yield When a solution of sulfur trioxide m sulfuric acid is used as the sulfonatmg agent the rate of sulfonation is much faster and the equilibrium is dis placed entirely to the side of products according to the equation... 

Alcohols and carboxylic acids yield an ester and water in the presence of an acid catalyst The reaction is an equilibrium process that can be driven to com pletion by using either the alcohol or the acid in excess or by remov mg the water as it is formed... 

Esterification (Section 15 8) In the pres ence of an acid catalyst carboxylic acids and alcohols react to form esters The reac tion IS an equilibrium process but can be driven to favor the ester by removing the water that is formed... 

Capacities of maleic anhydride faciUties worldwide are presented in Table 7. The switch of feedstock from benzene to butane was completed in the United States in 1985, being driven by the lower unit cost and lower usage of butane in addition to the environmental pressures on the use of benzene. Worldwide, the switch to butane is continuing with 58% of the total world maleic anhydride capacity based on butane feedstock in 1992. This capacity percentage for butane has increased from only 6% in 1978. In 1992, 38% of the total world maleic anhydride capacity was based on benzene feedstock and 4% was derived from other sources, primarily phthaUc anhydride by-product streams. 

Obviously, B can never be negative in these cases to the extent that equation 5 is vaUd, miscibility can only be driven by combinatorial entropy, and this possibihty is maximized by matching the values of 5 and 5g as nearly as possible. In general, high molecular weight, nonpolar polymers are rarely miscible with each other. 

The reaction of NaOH with bisphenol A generates water. This water must be thoroughly removed from the system to allow the reaction to be driven to completion, and more importandy, to preclude any residual water in the system from hydrolyzing part of the DCDPS monomer (2). Before the introduction of DCDPS for the polymerization step, all but traces of water must be removed. Failure to do so results in regeneration of NaOH, which rapidly reacts with DCDPS to form the monosodium salt of 4-chloro-4 -hydroxydiphenylsulfone [18995-09-0] (3) (6). 

Mechanical Mills with Mir Classifiers. To improve the end fineness and achieve a sharper topsize cutoff point, many mechanical impact mills are fitted with integral air classifiers (Fig. 13). These can be driven separately from the mill rotor or share a common drive. The material to be ground is introduced into the mill section of the machine, where impact size reduction takes place. The airflow through the machine carries the partially ground product to the air classifier, which is usually some form of rotating turbine. The speed of rotation determines which particle size is internally recycled for further grinding and which is allowed to exit the machine with the airflow. Machines are available up to 375 kW and can achieve products with essentially all material <20 fim. 

Requirements for tire cord material will to some extent be driven by new vehicle trends. Eor example, the clean air emphasis in North America places lightweight vehicles and materials at a premium. Eor tire cord the fuel economy or rolling resistance provided by the cord—mbber composite may shift the pattern of usage. A common requirement for all types of tire cord surfaces is a high strength-to-weight ratio. 

The reaction can be driven to the tetraalkoxide stage by addition of an amine or ammonia to scavenge the Hberated hydrochloric acid. The amine or ammonium hydrochloride that forms can be filtered from the reaction mass and the tetraalkyl titanate purified by distillation. If the reaction is mn in the starting alcohol as solvent, the chloride salts formed are in a finely divided state and difficult to filter. When the reaction is mn in the presence of an inert hydrocarbon solvent such as heptane or toluene, a much more readily filterable salt is obtained. The solution of cmde tetraalkyl titanate can be distilled to remove solvent and give a pure product (1,2). 

The solvating glycol molecule can be driven off by heating. An alternative stmcture (1) has both hydroxyls of one HO—G—OH molecule involved in covalent bonds instead of one hydroxyl from each of two glycol molecules. 

Thin-Film Evaporators. There are two types of thin-film evaporators commonly used in industrial appHcations. The first type introduces feed material into the center of a rotating heated conical receiver. Centrifugal force causes the feed to travel to the outer edge of the conical receiver where it is coUected and drawn off as residue. During the process, the heat causes the volatile components to be driven from the feed. These volatile components are condensed on a chilled surface of the evaporator and coUected as distUlate. 

The compressor can be driven by electric motors, gas or steam turbiaes, or internal combustion (usually diesel) engines. The compressor can also be a steam-driven ejector (Fig. 7b), which improves plant reUabiUty because of its simplicity and absence of moving parts, but also reduces its efficiency because an ejector is less efficient than a mechanical compressor. In all of the therm ally driven devices, turbiaes, engines, and the ejector mentioned hereia, the exhaust heat can be used for process efficiency improvement, or for desalination by an additional distillation plant. Figure 8 shows a flow diagram of the vertical-tube vapor compression process. 

A1koxid.es of other alcohols are formed by alcohol exchange. The general stabihty of the alcohols in exchange is primary > secondary > tertiary, although the reaction can be driven in the opposite direction by removal of the more volatile alcohol ... 

The reverse reaction, B returning to A, can be driven either by thermal or photochemical energy, or both. When the reversion is photochemicaHy driven, the process is called optical bleaching. Optical bleaching is a general characteristic and is a factor in almost all photochromic systems, even those normally thought of as being thermally reversible. 

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