Chemical separation impurities

The first equation is an example of hydrolysis and is commonly referred to as chemical precipitation. The separation is effective because of the differences in solubiUty products of the copper(II) and iron(III) hydroxides. The second equation is known as reductive precipitation and is an example of an electrochemical reaction. The use of more electropositive metals to effect reductive precipitation is known as cementation. Precipitation is used to separate impurities from a metal in solution such as iron from copper (eq. 1), or it can be used to remove the primary metal, copper, from solution (eq. 2). Precipitation is commonly practiced for the separation of small quantities of metals from large volumes of water, such as from industrial waste processes. 

Attempts by Kao and others to enhance transparency by chemically removing impurities from glass met with little success the level of purity required was indeed comparable with that needed in silicon for integrated circuits. In the event, the required purification was achieved in the same way in which semiconductor-grade silicon is now manufactured, by going through the gas phase (silicon tetrachloride), which can be separated from the halides of impurity species because of dilTerences in vapour pressures. This breakthrough was achieved by R.D. Maurer and his... 

As liquid chromatography plays a dominant role in chemical separations, advancements in the field of LC-NMR and the availability of commercial LC-NMR instrumentation in several formats has contributed to the widespread acceptance of hyphenated NMR techniques. The different methods for sampling and data acquisition, as well as selected applications will be discussed in this section. LC-NMR has found a wide range of applications including structure elucidation of natural products, studies of drug metabolism, transformation of environmental contaminants, structure determination of pharmaceutical impurities, and analysis of biofiuids such as urine and blood plasma. Readers interested in an in-depth treatment of this topic are referred to the recent book on this subject [25]. 

Carriers frequently are stable isotopes of the radionuclide of interest, but they need not be. Nonisotopic carriers are used in a variety of situations. Scavengers are nonisotopic carriers used in precipitations that carry/incorporate other radionuclides into their precipitates indiscriminately. For example, the precipitation of Fe (OH)3 frequently carries, quantitatively, many other cations that are absorbed on the surface of the gelatinous precipitate. Such scavengers are frequently used in chemical separations by precipitation in which a radionuclide is put in a soluble oxidation state, a scavenging precipitation is used to remove radioactive impurities, and then the nuclide is oxidized/reduced to an oxidation state where it can be precipitated. In such scavenging precipitations, holdback carriers are introduced to dilute the radionuclide atoms by inactive atoms and thus prevent them from being scavenged. 

Atomic absorption spectrometry has been applied to the analysis of over sixty elements. The technique combines speed, simplicity and versatility and has been applied to a very wide range of non-ferrous metal analyses. This review presents a cross section of applications. For the majority of applications flame atomisation is employed but where sensitivity is inadequate using direct aspiration of the sample solution a number of methods using a preconcentration stage have been described. Non-flame atomisation methods have been extensively applied to the analysis of ultra-trace levels of impurities in non-ferrous metals. The application of electrothermal atomisation, particularly to nickel-based alloys has enabled the determination of sub-part per million levels of impurities to be carried out in a fraction of the time required for the chemical separation and flame atomisation techniques. 

A number of analytical methods are used to detect and determine the radiochemical impurities in a given radiopharmaceutical. Most commonly used are methods like paper (PC), thin-layer (TLC), and gel chromatography, paper and gel electrophoresis, HPLC, and precipitation. A common principle for the different methods is that they can chemically separate the different radiolabeled components in the radiopharmaceutical. It may sometimes be necessary to perform more than... 

A distillation process is shown in Fig. P2.59. You are asked to solve for all the values of the stream flows and compositions. How many unknowns are there in the system How many independent material balance equations can you write Explain each answer and show all details whereby you reached your decision. For each stream, the only components that occur are shown below the stream. Metallurgical-grade silicon is purified to electronic grade for use in the semiconductor industry by chemically separating it from its impurities. Si metal reacts in varying degrees with hydrogen chloride gas at 300°C to form several polychlorinated... 

Liquid separation Liquid drying Trace impurity removal Xylene, cresol, cymene isomer separation Fructose-glucose separation Fatty chemicals separation Breaking azeotropes Carbohydrate separation... 

All phases of analytical development are ideally supported by chemical separation techniques such as HPLC, TLC, GC, SFC, and CE. HPLC continues to be the primary method of analysis throughout the pharmaceutical development process. Although HPLC is limited in its ability to separate more than 15-20 components in a single analysis, and variations in columns and instrumentation manufacturer to manufacturer complicate transfer of methods, HPLC can readily be implemented to meet ICH requirements for method performance. For early-phase methods, HPLC can be coupled dynamically to mass and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers to facilitate the identification of unknown impurities. In later phases, HPLC can be implemented in a fully automated format as a high-throughput method for release and stability testing. 

Simplified flow sheets are given in Figs. 2 and 3 for two of the basic types of waste that will be encountered. The Purex type of waste is the simplest of all of the wastes to process, being a nitric acid solution of fission products, corrosion products, and a small amount of other impurities. Advantage is taken of the fact that one can evaporate this waste, and thereby achieve a greatly increased concentration of material, before actual chemical separation of the constituents is started. 

Direct calcination of Pu(N03)4 involves no chemical separations that could remove impurities, so a highly pure plutonium nitrate feed solution is required. The plutonium dioxide product can be hydrofluorinated to PUF4, or it can be used as a feed for the formation of PUCI3. Direct calcination has received less industrial-scale application than the precipitation processes described above [C2]. 

All the water in the feed must flow down past the vapor sidestream drawoff tray. If the liquid composition on this tray is 5.4mol% water, the vapor composition is 3.2mol% water. Thus, the purity of the sidestream is low. The only way to reduce the impurity of water in the sidestream is to reduce the water concentration in the liquid by drastically increasing the internal flow rates of the vapor and liquid in the column, that is, increase the RR. This makes the sidestream configuration uneconomical for this chemical separation. 

A radiochemical separation has three important advantages compared with a common chemical separation (1) Inactive carriers can be added for the elements to be separated (B and D). This avoids the difficulties of a chemical separation at the trace level. (2) Reagent impurities (or blanks) do not influence the detection limit capabilities of the analytical method. (3) Separations may not be quantitative and even not reproducible (see below). 

In most cases, as a fluence monitor small disks or wires of an Al-Co alloy with 0.1 to 1% Co are used by such a dilution of the monitor substance, self-shielding and flux depression effects are avoided. In general, since interfering radionuclides produced in the diluting element are small, chemical separations before activity measurement of Co are normally not needed. Frequently, the cobalt impurities in stainless steels, which are in the range of 100 to 1000 ppm, can be directly used as a fluence monitor in such cases, however, the accurate cobalt concentration in the material has to be additionally determined by chemical analysis. 

The object of the chemical separations is the preparation of the active substance in a pure and crystalline form, if it is a solid, for use in chemical and biological investigations. The chemist wants to determine the structure and to synthesize it. The biologist wishes to ascertain its biological properties. Both want to work with pure crystalline material to avoid the possibility that the properties are modified or determined by impurities in the noncrystalline preparations. 

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