Cold surface

Condensation takes place on the cold surface directly as the solid because the pressure is below that at the triple point. 

You see that vacuum adapter stuck to the top of the condenser in fig. 7a Well, a closer look at it in fig. 7b will show that it has some drying agent sandwiched between two cotton balls and the nipple (tee heel) sealed with plastic wrap or foil. The drying agent can be either a commercial product called Drierite or calcium chloride. This attachment is placed on top of a condenser when refluxing solutions that have no water in them and must remain that way during the time they are refluxed. All this is to prevent moisture in the outside air from coming into contact with the cold surface of the of the inside walls of the condenser. This will surely happen and the condensed outside-air water will drip down into the reaction flask and ruin the experiment. This is not so much a... 

With a typical ablated particle size of about 1 -pm diameter, the efficiency of transport of the ablated material is normally about 50% most of the lost material is deposited on contact with cold surfaces or by gravitational deposition. From a practical viewpoint, this deposition may require frequent cleaning of the ablation cell, transfer lines, and plasma torch. 

SiO exists only as a vapor and reforms Si02 particles when it deposits on cold surfaces (97). 

The system of primary interest, then, is that of a condensable vapor moving between a Hquid phase, usually pure, and a vapor phase in which other components are present. Some of the gas-phase components may be noncondensable. A simple example would be water vapor moving through air to condense on a cold surface. Here the condensed phase, characterized by T and P, exists pure. The vapor-phase description requiresjy, the mole fraction, as weU as T and P. The nomenclature used in the description of vapor-inert gas systems is given in Table 1. 

Cij = mean specific heat of combustion products from base temperature to leaving-gas temperature Te-C = cold-surface fraction of a furnace enclosure. 

The other mechanism appears in scrubbers. When water vapor diffuses from a gas stream to a cold surface and condenses, there is a net hydrodynamic flow of the noncondensable gas directed toward the surface. This flow, termed the Stefan flow, carries aerosol particles to the condensing surface (Goldsmith and May, in Davies, Aero.sol Science, Academic, New York, 1966) and can substantially improve the performance of a scrubber. However, there is a corresponding Stefan flow directed away from a surface at which water is evaporating, and this will tend to repel aerosol particles from the surface. 

Distyrylpyrazine [14990-02-4] M 284.3, m 219 . Recrystd from xylene chromatographed on basic silica gel (60-80 mesh) using CH2CI2 as eluent, then vac sublimed on to a cold surface at 10 torr [Ebied J Chem Soc, Faraday Trans / 78 3213 1982], Operations should be carried out in the dark. 

The real atmosphere is more than a dry mixture of permanent gases. It has other constituents—vapor of both water and organic liquids, and particulate matter held in suspension. Above their temperature of condensation, vapor molecules act just like permanent gas molecules in the air. The predominant vapor in the air is water vapor. Below its condensation temperature, if the air is saturated, water changes from vapor to liquid. We are all familiar with this phenomenon because it appears as fog or mist in the air and as condensed liquid water on windows and other cold surfaces exposed to air. The quantity of water vapor in the air varies greatly from almost complete dryness to supersaturation, i.e., between 0% and 4% by weight. If Table 2-1 is compiled on a wet air basis at a time when the water vapor concentration is 31,200 parts by volume per million parts by volume of wet air (Table 2-2), the concentration of condensable organic vapors is seen to be so low compared to that of water vapor that for all practical purposes the difference between wet air and dry air is its water vapor content. 

Provision of efficient drift eliminators of water cooling towers consideration of replacement by air cooling systems. Thermal insulation to protect personnel from contact with hot or cold surfaces prevention of water supply disruption by freezing. 

Thermo-diffusion calculations analyze the migration of hazardous material from compartment to compartment to release in containment. These calculations use physico-chemical parameters to predict the retention of hazardous materials by filtration, deposition on cold surfaces and other retention processes in the operation. Containment event trees aid in determining the amount, duration and types of hazardous material that leaves the containment. 

When the airflow meets a surface whose temperature is lower than the dewpoint, water vapor from the air condenses on the surface of the cooling coil. If all air comes into contact with the cold surface, the state of the air after the process will be at point 3. Some air always escapes the cold surface, and therefore the state of air after contact with the coil is a mixture of saturated air (3) and escaped air (1). The mixing point (2) lies on the line connecting points 1 and 3, as shown in Example 8. The nearer point 2 is to point 3, the more effective is the cooling coil. 

In buildings away from outside perimeter walls, air and surface temperatures are usually approximately equal. The heat losses from a person by radiation (q ) and convection (q ) are then flowing to the same temperature level. In such uniform spaces, the radiant and convective losses are about equal and together account for about 80-90% of the total heat loss of a sedentary comfortable individual. In the presence of hot or cold surfaces, as may occur in perimeter or other locations in a building, the average surface temperature of the surroundings (called mean radiant temperature) as seen by the person s body may be substantially different from air temperature. If the mean radiant temperature (MRT) is greater or less than air temperature (T,) the person will feel warmer or colder than in a thermally uniform space where MRT =. ... 

Aside from the general thermal state of the body, a person may find the thermal environment unacceptable or intolerable if local influences on the body from asymmetric radiation, air velocities, vertical air temperature differences, or contact with hot or cold surfaces (floors, machinery, tools, etc.) are experienced. 

By allowing moisture-laden, relatively warm gas to come into intimate contact with a cold surface which is below the dew point of the gas, moisture is condensed from the gas. 

The dimensionless numbers are important elements in the performance of model experiments, and they are determined by the normalizing procedure ot the independent variables. If, for example, free convection is considered in a room without ventilation, it is not possible to normalize the velocities by a supply velocity Uq. The normalized velocity can be defined by m u f po //ao where f, is the height of a cold or a hot surface. The Grashof number, Gr, will then appear in the buoyancy term in the Navier-Stokes equation (AT is the temperature difference between the hot and the cold surface) ... 

Acidic smuts Solid and liquid conglomerates formed by the condensation of water vapor and sulfur trioxide on a cold surface. A typical case is combustion products in a flue, which come into contact with surfaces at temperatures below the flue gas dew point temperature. These products contain metallic sulfate and carbon aqueous particles approximately 1-3 mm in size. 

Dew point, acid The temperature at which acid vapor in a gas stream condenses out of the flow onto a cold surface or in a cold gas stream. 

Note the values taken for X, A.i, X2,. ..and X should be those applicable to the mean temperature of the hot and cold surfaces of the appropriate layer. 

Vacuum evaporation Evaporation at reduced pressure in accordance with the Clausius equation, followed by condensation on a cold surface 1 solid 1 vapour solid on 2 M, Al M2 Fe... 

If air at 21°C dry bulb, 50% saturation, is brought into contact with a surface at 12°C, it will give up some of its heat by convection. The cold surface is warmer than the dew point, so no condensation will take place, and cooling will be sensible only (Figure 24.3). 

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