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The use of electrochemical protection in the chemical industry started about 20 years ago, which is somewhat recent, compared with its use for buried pipelines 40 years ago. Adoption was slow because the internal protection has to be tailored to the individual plant, which is not the case with the external protection of buried objects. Interest in internal protection came from the increasing need for greater safety for operating plants, increased demands for corrosion resistance, and larger plant components. While questions of its economy cannot generally be answered (see Section 22.6), the costs of electrochemical protection are generally less than the cost of equivalent and reliable coatings or corrosion-resistant materials. 

Chemical Resistance. The chemical resistance of chromium carbide is superior to that of other interstitial carbides. Oxidation in air starts at 1000°C and a dense and strong oxide layer is formed. It is insoluble in cold HCl but dissolves in hot oxidizing acids. 

Chemical Resistance. Oxidation in air starts at 500-600°C. WC is resistant to acids and is not attacked at room temperature by mixtures of HF and HNO3 but is attacked by these acids at elevated temperature. It is attacked by chlorine above 400°C and by fluorine at room temperature. It is stable in dry hydrogen to melting point. 

Optical fibres composed of plastics are also transparent in the visible spectral region but optical losses reach 102 - 103 dB/km13. Their refractive index varies from 1.35 to 1.6 depending on the kind of polymer used (e.g. polymethymethacrylate PMMA -1.49). The chemical resistance is much worse than that of silica fibres and thermal stability is incomparable. On the other hand, low temperature processes of plastic fibre preparation allow us mix the starting polymer with organic dyes which enables the production of luminescent fibres suitable e.g. for fluorescence-based sensing13. 

The synthesis of silica membranes has only recently been described. Silica forms sols and gels very easily both by the colloidal suspension and by the polymeric gel route. Its chemical resistance and its thermal stability in the presence of water vapor or metal impurities are not very good however. Larbot et al. (1989) have described the synthesis of silica membranes starting with a commercially available silica sol (Cecasol Sobret) in an aqueous solution at pH 8. 

Nylon-12,12. Nylon-12,12 [36497-34-4], [36348-71-7] was introduced into the marketplace by Du Pont in the late 1980s (174). This polymer possesses very low moisture absorption, high dimensional stability, and excellent chemical resistance, with a moderately high melt point (Tm = 185° C) (175). Its manufacture begins with the formation of dodecanedioic acid produced from the trimerization of butadiene in a process identical to that used in the manufacture of nylon-6,12. The other starting material, 1,12-dodecanediamine, is prepared in a two-step process that first converts the dodecanedioic acid to a diamide, and then continues to dehydrate the diamide to the dinitrile. In the second step, the dinitrile is then hydrogenated to the diamine with hydrogen in the presence of a suitable catalyst. 

Silver and gold were probably the first metals to be electroplated27 and were the subject of a patent which could be said to have started the electroplating industry.28 Both metals are normally plated from cyanide baths and the processes have enjoyed some prominence since World War II as electronics technology has developed and the good electrical conductivity and chemical resistance of the metals has been attractive. 

The connections for fluid contact have the task of ensuring ingress of the starting materials to the microreactor and egress of the products. They are normally miniature hoses made of PTFE or pipes made of chemically resistant stainless steel. Common diameters are 1 /8 and 1 /16 in fittings with 1/4 in UNF thread are employed for PTFE hoses and the steel tubing is fixed with jubilee dips. A variety of methods are used to fix compatible connection points on the microreactor. Here three of them will be described. 

The process of selecting and using chemical-resistant PPE encompasses multiple steps and decision points, starting with a definition of the hazard and ending with the disposal of used PPE. Figures 6.11 and 6.12 picture assorted PPE. 

The procedure of inspection for the end user, as it applies to chemically-resistant masonry, starts with the drawings and specifications as received from the designers. The very first thing for the end user to remember is that anyone-any designer-can make mistakes, and under Murphy s Law, someone probably will, whether it be on the drawings or in the specifications. Therefore, the user should do the following. 

When a failure occurs in an alloy vessel containing chemicals, the owner starts to investigate to learn if the correct alloy was used, if the designer mal-designed it, or if the fabricator made some error in assembling it. However, when a failure occurs in an "acid brick"-or other chemically resistant masonry-structure, the customer often abandons the concept without investigation, with a comment such as "we tried it and it didn t work." There is always a reason for a failure and if you are able to analyze the failure so as to learn the source of the trouble, there is no reason why such failure cannot be prevented in the future. 

Alumina electrolysis cells consist of a rectangular steel shell lined with a 25-35 cm layer of baked and rammed dense carbon, which provides both chemical resistance and the cathode contact with the electrolyte via steel bus bars imbedded in the carbon. Normal lining life is 4—6 years, after which it is replaced as large preformed slabs. Once a reduction pot has been started the bulk of the cathode current to the carbon lining is via the pool of newly formed molten aluminum in the bottom of the cell (Fig. 12.2). 

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