Chemical reaction molar mass

Fig. 7-3 Additional Conversions. Moles of a gas may be determined from other data, such as moles of another reagent in a chemical reaction or mass and molar mass. Conversely, these values may be determined from gas data by working in the opposite direction on the figure. Again, start with the data provided and work toward the answer required. (Remember the boy scouts.)... 

Rate-of-change form of the mass balance with chemical reaction molar basis... 

Chemical Grafting. Polymer chains which are soluble in the suspending Hquid may be grafted to the particle surface to provide steric stabilization. The most common technique is the reaction of an organic silyl chloride or an organic titanate with surface hydroxyl groups in a nonaqueous solvent. For typical interparticle potentials and a particle diameter of 10 p.m, steric stabilization can be provided by a soluble polymer layer having a thickness of - 10 nm. This can be provided by a polymer tail with a molar mass of 10 kg/mol (25) (see Dispersants). 

The dimensions of permeabiUty become clear after rearranging equation 1 to solve for P. The permeabiUty must have dimensions of quantity of permeant (either mass or molar) times thickness ia the numerator with area times a time iaterval times pressure ia the denomiaator. Table 1 contains conversion factors for several common unit sets with the permeant quantity ia molar units. The unit nmol/(m-s-GPa) is used hereia for the permeabiUty of small molecules because this unit is SI, which is preferred ia current technical encyclopedias, and it is only a factor of 2, different from the commercial permeabihty unit, (cc(STP)-mil)/(100 in. datm). The molar character is useful for oxygen permeation, which could ultimately involve a chemical reaction, or carbon dioxide permeation, which is often related to the pressure in a beverage botde. 

One molecule (or mole) of propane reacts with five molecules (or moles) of oxygen to produce three molecules (or moles) or carbon dioxide and four molecules (or moles) of water. These numbers are called stoichiometric coefficients (v.) of the reaction and are shown below each reactant and product in the equation. In a stoichiometrically balanced equation, the total number of atoms of each constituent element in the reactants must be the same as that in the products. Thus, there are three atoms of C, eight atoms of H, and ten atoms of O on either side of the equation. This indicates that the compositions expressed in gram-atoms of elements remain unaltered during a chemical reaction. This is a consequence of the principle of conservation of mass applied to an isolated reactive system. It is also true that the combined mass of reactants is always equal to the combined mass of products in a chemical reaction, but the same is not generally valid for the total number of moles. To achieve equality on a molar basis, the sum of the stoichiometric coefficients for the reactants must equal the sum of v. for the products. Definitions of certain terms bearing relevance to reactive systems will follow next. 

The general topic of this chapter is stoichiometry (stoy-key-OM-e-tree), the study of mass relations in chemistry. Whether dealing with atomic masses (Section 3.1), molar masses (Section 3.2), chemical formulas (Section 3.3), or chemical reactions (Section 3.4), you will be answering some very practical questions that ask how much or how many—." For example—... 

The production rate of acetic acid was 2kg-h 1, where the maximum acetic acid concentration was 12%. Air was pumped into the fermenter with a molar flow rate of 200 moMi-. The chemical reaction is presented in (E. 1.1) and flow diagram in Figure 9.5. Determine the minimum amount of ethanol intake and identify the required mass balance for the given flow sheet. The ethanol biochemical oxidation reaction using A. aceti is ... 

P, with the remainder oxygen. The mass spectrum of compound B yields a molar mass of 97.99 g-mol. Write the molecular formula of compound B. (c) Compound B reacts with an aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide to form compound C, a white precipitate. Write balanced chemical equations for the reactions in parts (a), (b), and (c). 

If these equations are written in terms of mass and then summed over all components, the sum must equal Equation (1.1) since the net rate of mass formation must be zero. When written in molar units as in Equation (1.6), the sum need not be zero since chemical reactions can cause a net increase or decrease in the number of moles. 

We can use the ideal gas equation to calculate the molar mass. Then we can use the molar mass to identify the correct molecular formula among a group of possible candidates, knowing that the products must contain the same elements as the reactants. The problem involves a chemical reaction, so we must make a connection between the gas measurements and the chemistry that takes place. Because the reactants and one product are known, we can write a partial equation that describes the chemical reaction CaC2(. ) +H2 0(/) Gas -I- OH" ((2 q) In any chemical reaction, atoms must be conserved, so the gas molecules can contain only H, O, C, and/or Ca atoms. To determine the chemical formula of the gas, we must find the combination of these elements that gives the observed molar mass. 

In addition to the determination of molar mass distributions and various molar mass averages there are many experiments, requiring sometimes sophisticated data evaluation, that can be carried out with an analytical ultracentrifuge. Examples are the analysis of association, the analysis of heterogeneity, the observation of chemical reactions, and protein characterization, to mention only a few. A detailed discussion is beyond the scope of this article, but there is excellent literature available [77-79,81,87-89]... 

It is clear from this discussion that the dose requirement and unit cost will be lower if the material has a higher molar mass M and the reaction has a high G value. Thus, the best candidates will be a polymeric material and a chain reaction. Quite often, a free-radical irradiation is used. The radiation source of choice is usually a 60Co - y facility, although electron beam irradiation is also used. Since most radiation-chemical reactions used in industry can also be brought about by other conventional means such as thermal, or photochemical processes, the processing cost must be below 10irradiation cost one has to include the cost of operation, maintenance, and the like. (Danno, 1960). 

The major differences between behavior profiles of organic chemicals in the environment are attributable to their physical-chemical properties. The key properties are recognized as solubility in water, vapor pressure, the three partition coefficients between air, water and octanol, dissociation constant in water (when relevant) and susceptibility to degradation or transformation reactions. Other essential molecular descriptors are molar mass and molar volume, with properties such as critical temperature and pressure and molecular area being occasionally useful for specific purposes. A useful source of information and estimation methods on these properties is the handbook by Boethling and Mackay (2000). 

The Hatta criterion compares the rates of the mass transfer (diffusion) process and that of the chemical reaction. In gas-liquid reactions, a further complication arises because the chemical reaction can lead to an increase of the rate of mass transfer. Intuition provides an explanation for this. Some of the reaction will proceed within the liquid boundary layer, and consequently some hydrogen will be consumed already within the boundary layer. As a result, the molar transfer rate JH with reaction will be higher than that without reaction. One can now feel the impact of the rate of reaction not only on the transfer rate but also, as a second-order effect, on the enhancement of the transfer rate. In the case of a slow reaction (see case 2 in Fig. 45.2), the enhancement is negligible. For a faster reaction, however, a large part of the conversion occurs in the boundary layer, and this results in an overall increase of mass transfer (cases 3 and 4 in Fig. 45.2). 

In this section, we have examined how the coupling between mass transfer and the chemical reaction defines the concentration profile of the limiting reagent (i.e., hydrogen), and how the mass or molar flow between the gas and the liquid phase can be computed. In the next section, the estimation of the overall rate of reaction (i.e., the reactor productivity) will be reviewed for different gas-liquid reactors. 

The chemical constraint reduces the number of possible reactions considerably, and consequently it leads to a much narrower molar mass distribution. Furthermore, the extent of reaction a of the A-group can cover all values from zero to unity, but the extent of reaction P of the equally reactive 5-groups cannot become larger than P=a/(f-l). One important consequence of this strict constraint is that gelation can never occur [1,13]. A much higher branching density than by random polycondensation can be achieved. For this reason one nowadays speaks of hyperbranching. 

The variation of efficiencies is due to interaction phenomena caused by the simultaneous diffusional transport of several components. From a fundamental point of view one should therefore take these interaction phenomena explicitly into account in the description of the elementary processes (i.e. mass and heat transfer with chemical reaction). In literature this approach has been used within the non-equilibrium stage model (Sivasubramanian and Boston, 1990). Sawistowski (1983) and Sawistowski and Pilavakis (1979) have developed a model describing reactive distillation in a packed column. Their model incorporates a simple representation of the prevailing mass and heat transfer processes supplemented with a rate equation for chemical reaction, allowing chemical enhancement of mass transfer. They assumed elementary reaction kinetics, equal binary diffusion coefficients and equal molar latent heat of evaporation for each component. 

Chemical reaction in which at least one of the reactants is a high-molar-mass substance. 

Many, but not all, macromolecules are created by the mutual chemical chain reactions of small molecules called monomers and the arising species contain repeated small units, mers. In that case they are designated oligomers or polymers depending on their molar mass. This means that all oligomers and polymers can be called macromolecular substances but not all macromolecular substances are of oligomeric or polymeric nature (lignin, humin substances, etc.). Properties of macromolecular systems depend on... 

Chemical behaviors, such as chemical reactions, are usually best quantified on a molar basis. That is, a certain number of moles of one species reacts with a certain number of moles of another to produce a certain amount of product species. Here a mole fraction, not a mass fraction, is the most appropriate measure of the mixture composition. The mole fraction is the number of moles of species k in a volume divided by the total moles in the volume. For a perfect gas, the mole fraction is related to mass fraction as... 

In these one-dimensional equations, the independent variable is the spatial coordinate z, and the dependent variables are the temperature T and the species mass fractions Yk. The continuity equation is satisfied exactly by m" = pu, which is a constant. Other variables are the z component of the mass-flux vector jkz, the molar production rate of species by chemical reaction 6)k, the thermal conductivity A, the species enthaplies hk, and the molecular weights Wk. The diffusion fluxes are determined as... 

One must immediately be aware of the limitations of the law of mass action. Almost every chemical reaction is in actual fact an extremely complicated process, and the familiar balanced chemical equation (which shows the molar relationships between the original reactants and the final products) gives no clue at all to the many intricate sequences of simple intermediate steps that are followed in going from "reactants" to "products." Always bear in mind the following points. 

The HETP of a column, valid for either distillation or dilute-gas absorption and stripping systems in which constant molar overflow can be assumed, and in which no chemical reactions occur, is related to the height of one overall gas-phase mass-transfer unit, HQG, by the equation ... 

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