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Tong, et al.(21) and Ye, et al.(22,23) report sedimentation of 4.0 nm surfactant-coated calcium carbonate particles through monodisperse hydrogenated polyiso-prenes in decane. Unmodified hydrogenated polyisoprene is nonabsorbing to the coated carbonate spheres. Addition of an end-terminal amino group yields an... 

The adsorbers are usually built of steel, and may be lagged or left unlagged the horizontal type is shown in Figure 28. The vapor-laden air is fed by the blower into one adsorber which contains a bed of 6- to 8-mesh activated carbon granules 12 to 30 inches thick. The air velocity through the bed is 40 to 90 feet per minute. The carbon particles retain the vapor only the denuded air reaches the exit, and then the exhaust line. The adsorption is allowed to continue until the carbon is saturated, when the vapor-laden air is diverted to the second adsorber, while the first adsorber receives low-pressure steam fed in below the carbon bed. The vapor is reformed and carried out by the steam. The two are condensed and if the solvent is not miscible with water, it may be decanted continuously while the water is run off similarly. After a period which may be approximately 30 or 60 minutes, all the vapor has been removed, the adsorbing power of the charcoal has been restored, and the adsorber is ready to function again, while adsorber No. 2 is steamed in turn. 

In liquid-phase applications, transfer of the adsorbate from the bulk solution to the carbon particle must proceed through two stages first, via transfer of the adsorbate from the bulk liquid to the surface of the carbon particle, and second, by migration... 

To increase rates of adsorption and decrease the time necessary to complete the isotherm, it is recommended that the granular carbon be pulverized so that 95 wt % will pass through a 325-mesh screen. Such pulverization does not significantly increase the surface area. The increase in the surface area, in most cases, is less than 1 percent, as the vast majority of surface area is contributed by the pore walls rather than by the external surface of the carbon particles. 

The second method used to reduce exliaust emissions incorporates postcombustion devices in the form of soot and/or ceramic catalytic converters. Some catalysts currently employ zeolite-based hydrocarbon-trapping materials acting as molecular sieves that can adsorb hydrocarbons at low temperatures and release them at high temperatures, when the catalyst operates with higher efficiency. Advances have been made in soot reduction through adoption of soot filters that chemically convert CO and unburned hydrocarbons into harmless CO, and water vapor, while trapping carbon particles in their ceramic honeycomb walls. Both soot filters and diesel catalysts remove more than 80 percent of carbon particulates from the exliatist, and reduce by more than 90 percent emissions of CO and hydrocarbons. 

Incidentally, as is well known, in the unvulcanized state of the filled mbber, the stress upturn does not appear even in the carbon content of = 0.2-0.25. For understanding this phenomenon, we must consider the discontinuity between the SH layers, in addition to the very low modulus of the unvulcanized mbber. Actually, as we discussed earlier, carbon blacks disperse as an aggregate of carbon particles, then the continuity of carbon gels consisting of aggregates must be much poorer than the theoretical calculation based on the perfect dispersion of carbon particles. In this case, the stress cannot be transmitted from carbon gel to carbon gel through such a very soft medium, and as a result, the stress-strain curve of the system is rather similar to the characteristics of the... 

FIGURE 54 A schematic of hie flow-through immunosensor equipped with (1) fluid inlet, (2) carbon current collector, (3) disposable immuno-column, (4) highly dispersed antibody-modified carbon particles (immunosorbent), (5) carbon counter electrode, (6) Ag AgCl reference electrode and (7) fluid outlet. (Reprinted from [16] with permission from Elsevier.)... 

Fan LS, Leyva-Ramos R, Wisecarver KD et al (1990) Diffusion of phenol through a biofilm grown on activated carbon particles in a draft-tube three-phase fluidized-bed bioreactor. Biotechnol Bioeng 35 279-286... 

Another way to examine the effect of carbon particle size on kinetics is to look at the bleed emissions from a carbon canister [20,35]. Bleed emissions are those emissions that occur prior to break through. They are the result of the diffusion of gasoline vapor components that can develop during extended soak times between purge and adsorption events. 

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