Solvent boiling range

High-boiling range solvent High-boiling glycol... 

Advantages. These type of condensers are invariably used for such reactions that exclusively involve solvents or components that either boil at or below the room temperature, such as liquid ammonia (bp - 33°C). Besides, they may also be employed for host of other higher boiling range solvents as well. 

Water has a slow evaporation rate, much slower than solvents with a similar boiling range. Solvents such as toluene and xylene evaporate 8-10 times faster. 

White-spirits are solvents that are slightly heavier than SBP s and have boiling ranges between 135 and 205°C. A dearomatized grade exists. These solvents are used essentially as paint thinners although their low aromatic content makes them unsuitable for lacquers, cellulosic paints and resins. 

Other than fuel, the largest volume appHcation for hexane is in extraction of oil from seeds, eg, soybeans, cottonseed, safflower seed, peanuts, rapeseed, etc. Hexane has been found ideal for these appHcations because of its high solvency for oil, low boiling point, and low cost. Its narrow boiling range minimises losses, and its low benzene content minimises toxicity. These same properties also make hexane a desirable solvent and reaction medium in the manufacture of polyolefins, synthetic mbbers, and some pharmaceuticals. The solvent serves as catalyst carrier and, in some systems, assists in molecular weight regulation by precipitation of the polymer as it reaches a certain molecular size. However, most solution polymerization processes are fairly old it is likely that those processes will be replaced by more efficient nonsolvent processes in time. 

Web Heat-Set Publication and Commercial Inks. Almost all heat-set inks are now printed on web offset presses, and are based on vehicles containing synthetic resins and/or some natural resins. These are dissolved in hydrocarbon solvent fractions which are specially fractionated for use in the ink industry. They vary in boiling range between 180 and 300 °C. Small percentages of alkyd resins (qv) may be contained in these inks. They dry in less than one second by means of solvent evaporation in a heatset oven. These ovens utilize high velocity hot air to raise the web temperature to 120-150 °C. 

Solvent Comparative drying Boiling range. Flash point. Density at 20°C,... 

Extractive distillation, using similar solvents to those used in extraction, may be employed to recover aromatics from reformates which have been prefractionated to a narrow boiling range. Extractive distillation is also used to recover a mixed ben2ene—toluene stream from which high quaUty benzene can be produced by postfractionation in this case, the toluene product is less pure, but is stiU acceptable as a feedstock for dealkylation or gasoline blending. Extractive distillation processes for aromatics recovery include those Hsted in Table 4. 

To the cooled reaction mixture, 200 ml. of water is added carefully with stirring. Potassium carbonate is added with continued stirring until the water layer is saturated the mixture is now transferred to a separatory funnel and extracted three times with 60-ml. portions of ether. The combined ether extracts are dried over solid sodium hydroxide and are then transferred to a simple distillation apparatus. Distillation is commenced with a steam bath as source of heat when most of the ether has been removed, the steam bath is replaced by a flame. Distillation is continued until most of the piperidine (b.p. 106°) has been removed. The cooled residue in the distillation flask is recrystallized from petroleum ether (boiling range 30-60°) with the use of charcoal. There is obtained 30.0 g. (71%) of N-/3-naphthyl-piperidine as tan crystals, m.p. 52-56°. An additional recrystallization from the same solvent gives crystals, m.p. 56-58°, with about 10% loss in weight (Note 6). 

A mixture of 39.5 grams of 2-methylbenzhydrol, 200 ml of beta-chloroethanol and 10 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid is boiled under reflux for 4 hours. After cooling, the reaction mixture is poured into water and extracted with petroleum ether (boiling range 40° to 60°C). The layers are separated and the ethereal solution dried with sodium sulfate. It is then filtered. The filtrate is concentrated by evaporation of the solvent. The residue is distilled under reduced pressure to give 51.0 grams (yield 98%) of beta-chloroethyl-2-methylbenzhydryl ether, boiling at 156° to 158°C/2.5 mm. 

Methyl Acetone. Commercial product .a water-white, anhydr liq, consisting of various mixts of acet (45 to 65%), methyl acetate (20 to 30%) and methanol (20 to 40%). Density about 0.83g/cc, boiling range 50 to 70°, flash p near 0°F. Miscible with hydrocarbons, oils and w. Obtained as a by-product in the manuf of acet and methanol from wood distn, representing fractions which cannot be economically sepd. The mixt can be used as such, being an excellent solv and plasticizer for NC and other cellulose esters, such as the acetate. It also dissolves rubber, gums, resins, lacquers, paint and varnish Refs 1) T.H, Durrans, Solvents , Van-Nostrand, NY (1938), 122 2) CondChemDict... 

The CMR and MBR are capable of operation in the presence of organic solvents. They have extended the useful operating temperature range for low-boiling organic solvents and have facilitated the development of new chemical processes that require moderate temperatures. Although debate continues to rage on the existence or otherwise of so-called nonthermal microwave effects [74—76], the principles of micro-wave chemistry now are well understood [33, 34]. 

A solvent for natural rubber a petroleum distillate with a boiling range of 100-160 °C. pH... 

Another approach is to use high-boiling aliphatic solvents with minimal aromatic content boiling points are in the range 150-250 °C. Much higher ratios of solvent to reactants are needed than when aromatic solvents are used, owing to the high viscosity of the system. 

For convenience, boiling ranges are converted to the nearest 5°. Kerosene destined for conversion to diesel fuel crude kerosene is often quoted as having a wider boihng range [150-350°C (302-662° F)] before separation into various fuel and/or solvent products. 

The petroleum ether solvents are a specific-boiling-range naphtha, as is ligroin. Thus, the term petroleum solvent describes a special liquid hydrocarbon fraction obtained from naphtha and used in industrial processes and formulations (Weissermel and Arpe, 1978). These fractions are also referred to as industrial naphtha. Other solvents include white spirit, which is subdivided into industrial spirit [distilling between 30 and 200°C (86 to 392°F)] and white spirit [light oil with a distillation range of 135 to 200°C (275 to 392°F)]. The special value of naphtha as a solvent lies in its stability and purity. 

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