Carbon dioxide fraction, effect

Technically, the specificity of carbon dioxide in the fluid, and particularly the liquid, states makes it attractive as a solvent for hops. The volatile oil components dissolve readily in CO2 while the alpha acids, as components of the soft resin fraction, are soluble to a useful degree. (These components are soluble in non-polar solvents and carbon dioxide is effectively a non-polar solvent). Also the solubilities in this solvent of unwanted compounds with a molecular weight much in excess of about 400 are much lower than those of the compounds which it is desired to extract. 

Figure 10. Effect of temperature and supercritical solvent density on solubility of adamantane (in units of mole fraction) in dense (supercritical) carbon dioxide. Data of isotherm at 333 K is from Ref. [35]. Data of isotherms at 343 K, 362.5 K, 382 K, and 402 K are from Ref. [37].

Example 3.2 Consider a combustor using air and methane under steady conditions. A stoichiometric reaction is assumed and diffusion effects are to be neglected. The reactants and products are uniform in properties across their flow streams. Find the mass fraction of carbon dioxide in the product stream leaving the combustor. 

Seasonal and interannual trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations reported as mole fraction in dry air. (a) Monthly mean values at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. Data are also presented as 6-month running average to eliminate the seasonal effects and (b) three-dimensional representation of latitudinal distributions of monthly mean values. Source After P. Tans and T. Conway, NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division (www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends). (See companion website for color version.)... 

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The first experiments made by Neuberg and Nord with the simplest diketone, diacetyl, showed at once that this substance can be hydrogenated phytochemically with comparitive ease. Acetylmethylcarbinol appears as an intermediate (see below), and the end product of reduction is asymmetric and levorotatory. Reduction was effected by the action of fermenting yeast on diacetyl. The 2,3-butanediol that is formed can be isolated by alcohol-ether extraction of the fermentation mixture after concentration in the Faust-Heim apparatus or by steam distillation in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide under ordinary pressure it is then carefully concentrated with the birectifier and obtained in the pure state by final fractionation. 

Studiengesselschaft Kohle m.b.H. (2) reported the effect of temperature on solubility level in supercritical gas. The solubility is highest within 20 K of the critical temperature and decreases as temperature is raised to 100 K above the critical temperature. At temperatures near the critical temperature, a sharp rise in solubility occurs as the pressure is increased to the vicinity of the critical pressure and increases further as the pressure is further increased. Less volatile materials are taken up to a lesser extent than more volatile materials, so the vapor phase has a different solute composition than the residual material. There does not seem to be substantial heating or cooling effects upon loading of the supercritical gas. It is claimed that the chemical nature of the supercritical gas is of minor importance to the phenomenon of volatility amplification. Ethylene, ethane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, propylene, propane, and ammonia were used to volatilize hydrocarbons found in heavy petroleum fractions. 

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