Liquid flow contaminants

In Step 8, accessed frozen agent is hydrolyzed with hot caustic (when processing GB and VX) or hot water (when processing HD), and agent-contaminated metal parts from the cryofracturing step are washed in one of two PRHs. The PRHs are smaller but similar in function and construction to the two ERHs (see Table 5-1). The liquid flow in the PRH is countercurrent to the flow of solids. The PRHs are externally steam heated to maintain the temperature at the desired level. 

Example 12-1 An aqueous solution containing lO ppm by weight of an organic contaminant of molecular weight 120 is to be removed by air oxidation in a l-cm-diameter falling film reactor at 25°C. The liquid flows at an average velocity of 10 Clll/sec and forms a film 1 mm thick on the wall, while the air at 1 atm flows at an average velocity of 2 cm/sec. The reaction in the liquid phase has the stoichiometry A + 2O2 products with a rate r K... 

Figure 32.11 shows a scheme of the RO plant for the treatment of the Cs-contaminated liquids. It was equipped with two kinds of spiral wound reverse osmosis membranes high-pressure (HP) and low-pressure (LP) membranes. Before flowing through the membranes, the feed was pretreated using 5 pm sleeve hlters and 0.45 pm cartridge hlters. 

Typically, the air-stripper manufacturer will supply liquid flow ranges acceptable for a particular tower. Selecting an air stripper for which the design flow is at the lower end of the tower s rated capacity will produce high contaminant removal rates, but may not optimize power requirements. For large-scale systems where significant operational costs may be incurred by overdesigning the system, the use of pressure-drop curves and calculations such as Eqs. (1)-(13) are required. 

With electrospray ionization, a fine mist of highly charged particles is produced when a liquid flows from a capillary tube into a strong electrical field (3 to 6kV).In practice, electrospray ionization sources are often directly coupled with reversed phase HPLC or capillary columns. The ability to couple a liquid chromatograph with an electrospray ionization source and a mass spectrometer allows the online removal of salts and contaminants and the analysis of complex mixtures. Although different from MALDI, electrospray provides similar sensitivity and application to the analysis of large proteins. 

The other type of reboiler commonly used is termed the down ow reboiler due to the fact that LOX enters at the top of the core and flows down. Vapor and liquid exits at the base of the core. The exit stream should have suf cient liquid flow to wash contaminants from the core and prevent dry boiling. A constant purge is still needed, however, from the column sump. 

Liquid flow in open channels is not common in a process plant, because of health and safety considerations, apart from the potential risk of contamination of the liquid itself. Open channels, however, are sometimes to be found in cooling water systems where large volumes of water are involved. Nevertheless, for the sake of completeness a brief treatment of the subject is included in this entry. 

For situations where there is little or no flow through the solid matrix, for example where the material has an exceptionally low hydraulic conductivity compared with the surrounding material, the liquid flow will be predominantly around large blocks or masses of the material. In such situations, solute transfer is affected by the diffusion of contaminants from inside the bulk of the material body to the surface of the body thence into solution in the liquid passing over the structure. 

So far, the sizing of machines for the agglomeration in stirred suspensions and immiscible liquid agglomeration is totally based on common sense approaches, experience with similar applications and trial and error. Thickeners are primarily designed to handle the amount of contaminated liquid at low flow conditions, which do not disturb the accretion (assisted by flocculation agents [B.48, B.97]) and the settling behavior of the suspended agglomerating solids. 

Catalysts were tested in a flow system at conversions generally below 10%. Reactors were back-mixed. Berry-type units, plated with gold or silver to minimize carbonyl formation and consequent catalyst contamination. Liquid and gaseous products were analyzed by VPC, using procedures described elsewhere (6,7,8). 

Lamarre (1990) has described a process for removing radon and volatile organics from domestic water supplies. The process uses a perforated horizontally oriented tray designed to produce a curved (serpentine or spiral) liquid flow pam. Contaminated water... 

Liquid flows backward into T-lOO Runaway chemical reaction in T-100 Cost of replacing contaminated RM-12... 

Finally, the salt fractions in the liquid flows entering and leaving the filter have to be evaluated. Let both hquid flows be saturated with salt. Thus Stream 6 leaving the filter has the saturation concentration x,g = x. Usually this quantity depends on the solution temperature, composition, and contaminant. The crystallization temperature inside the evaporative crystallizer can be adjusted by the pressure in the crystallizer. The salt concentration x,2 in Stream 2 leaving the crystallizer exceeds the saturation concentration due to the crystals contained in addition to the... 

D13. A water cleanup is stripping vinyl chloride from contaminated ground water at 25°C and 850 mm Hg using a countercurrent, staged stripper. The feed is 5.0 ppm (molar) vinyl chloride. An outlet water that contains 0.1 ppm (molar) vinyl chloride is required. The inlet air used for stripping is pure. For a base liquid flow rate of L = 1.0 kmol/h, determine the following ... 

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