Contactors, selection

Heat Sensitivity. The heat sensitivity or polymerization tendencies of the materials being distilled influence the economics of distillation. Many materials caimot be distilled at their atmospheric boiling points because of high thermal degradation, polymerization, or other unfavorable reaction effects that are functions of temperature. These systems are distilled under vacuum in order to lower operating temperatures. For such systems, the pressure drop per theoretical stage is frequently the controlling factor in contactor selection. An exceUent discussion of equipment requirements and characteristics of vacuum distillation may be found in Reference 90. 

Because and are important parameters in contactor selection, approximate values of them for the more important contactors are listed in Table 16.7, along with some other features of these contactors. 

Shell process. Universal Oil Pro-ducts sulfolane sulfolane selectivity and capacity insensitive to water content caused by steam-stripping during solvent recov-ery heavy paraffinic countersolvent use 120 rotating-disk contactor, up to 4 m in diameter the high selectivity and capacity of sulfolane leads to low solvent-feed ratios, and thus smaller equip-ment... 

Holdup and Flooding At this point it is useful to introduce the concepts of holdup and flooding in column contactors. It is normal practice to select the phase which preferentially wets the internals of the column as the continuous phase. This then allows the dispersed phase to exist as discrete droplets within the column. If the dispersed phase were to preferentially wet the internals, this could cause the dispersion to prematurely coalesce and pass through the column as rivulets or streams which would decrease interfacial area and therefore column efficiency. 

To make the whole starting sequence atitomaiic in a contactor type automatic starter unit it is essential to know the time the motor will take to accelerate from one slip to another between each step. It is required to select... 

TTiis is a severe duty for the switching contactors as they have to endure repeated arcing of the interrupting contacts every time they make or break. (Select only AC-4 duty contactors see Section 12.10.)... 

The selection of main components such as switches and contactors is made on the basis of their... 

A contactor must have full-load rating and be coordinated to proven capability with a selected fuse. 

Beside their use in equilibrium-restricted reactions, CMRs have been also proposed for very different applications [6], like selective oxidation and oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons they may also act as active contactor in gas or gas-liquid reactions. 

The most widely used element-selective electrochemical detector is the Hall electrolytic conductivity detector (HECD) [98,116,206]. This is an improved version of an earlier design by Coulson [207,208]. In both detectors the reaction products are swept from the furnace into a gas-liquid contactor trtiere they are mixed with an appropriate solvent. The liquid phase is separated from insoluble gases in a gas-liquid separator and then passed through a conductivity cell. The Coulson detector employed a... 

Solvent extraction carried out in conventional contactors like mixer-settlers and columns has certain limitations, including (a) controlling optimum dispersion and coalescence, (b) purifying both phases to ensure that stable emulsions are avoided (c) temperature control within a narrow band (d) high entrained solvent losses and related environmental and process economic effects and (e) large equipment dimensions and energy requirements when the density differential or selectivity is low. 

Figure 11.55. Selection guide for liquid-liquid contactors (after Hanson, 1968)...

Contact dermatitis, from nickel, 17 119 Contact dryers, coatings, 7 29 Contact drying, 9 105-107 Contact icing, of food, 21 561 Contacting, differential, 10 760-762 Contact mechanics, 1 515-517 Contact mode atomic force microscopy, 3 320-325 17 63 Contact nucleation, 8 105 Contactors ozone, 17 801-802 selection of, 10 767-768... 

The types of equipment used, which range from stirred tanks and mixer-settlers to centrifugal contactors and various types of columns, affect both capital and operating costs [9]. In the decision to build a plant, the choice of the most suitable contactor for the specific situation is most important. In some systems, because of the chemistry and mass transfer rates involved, several alternative designs of contacting equipment are available. In the selection of a contactor, one must consider the capacity and stage requirements solvent type and residence time phase flow ratio physical properties direction of mass transfer phase dispersion and coalescence holdup kinetics equilibrium presence of solids overall performance and maintenance as a function of contactor complexity. This may appear very complicated, but with some experience, the choice is relatively simple. 

Using this approach of a selectivity term SPFR Sunder and Hempel (1996) successfully modeled the oxidation of small concentrations of Tri- and Perchloroethylene (c(M)a = 300-1300 pg D) by ozone and hydrogen peroxide in a synthetic ground water (pH = 7.5-8.5 c(Sj) = 1-3 mmol C03 L"1). In this study an innovative reaction system was used the oxidation was performed in a tube reactor and mass transfer of gaseous ozone to pure water was realized in a separate contactor being located in front of the tube reactor. By this way a homogeneous system was achieved. Since the two model compounds react very slowly with molecular ozone (kD < 0.1 L mol-1 s "1), nearly the complete oxidation was due to the action of hydroxyl radicals, which were produced from the two oxidants (03/H202). With... 

Bilancia, G., Facchini, A., Ferrando, M. et al. 2005. Selective actinide extraction with a tri-synergistic mixture using a centrifugal contactor battery. Solvent Extr. Ion Exch. 23 (6) 773-780. 

As organic and aqueous phases are macroscopically separated by the membrane, HFM offer several hydrodynamic advantages over other contactors, such as the absence of flooding and entrainment, or the reduction of feed consumption (160, 161). The flowsheets tested in HFM were similar to those developed for centrifugal contactor tests. Computer codes based on equilibrium (162) and kinetics data, diffusion coefficients (in both phases and in the membrane pores), and a hydrodynamic description of the module, were established to calculate transient and steady-state effluent concentrations. It was demonstrated that, by selecting appropriate flow rates (as mass transfer is mainly controlled by diffusion), very high DFs (DI A 11 = 20,000 and DFrm = 830) could be achieved. Am(III) and Cm(III) back-extraction efficiency was up to 99.87%. 

For cesium extraction, Couette columns have been used. The operations in such a contactor can be easily extrapolated to a pulsed column, and the quantity of implemented solvent is less important. The hydrodynamic behavior is satisfactory for the two calixarene systems studied in spite of a more emulsion-prone behavior with system 2. The selectivity obtained compared to other elements is excellent. 

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