Cooling ethylene

A double-pipe counter-flow heat exchanger is to cool ethylene glycol (cp = 2560 J/kg °C) flowing at a rate of 3.5 kg/s from 80 C to 40°C by water (c, = 4180 J/kg C) that enters at 20°C and leaves at 55 C. The overall heat transfer coefficient based on the inner surface area of the lube is 250 V/m "C. Determine (o) the rate of heat transfer, (A) the mass flow rate of water, and (c) the heat transfer surface area on the inner side of the tube. 

L Abad, D Bermejo, R Escribano, VJ Herrero, J Santos, I Tanarro, GD Nivellini, L Ramonat. Stimulated Raman spectra of jet-cooled ethylene. Chem Phys Lett 227 248-254, 1994. 

Place 20 ml. (16 g.) of rectified spirit in F, and add slowly, with cooling and shaking, 40 ml. (74 g.) of concentrated sulphuric acid. Then add about 2-3 g. of clean dry sand, to ensure a steady evolution of ethylene subsequently. Connect up the apparatus and heat F over the sand-bath as shown. 

Prepare a Grignard reagent from 24 -5 g. of magnesium turnings, 179 g. (157 ml.) of n-heptyl bromide (Section 111,37), and 300 ml. of di-n-butyl ether (1). Cool the solution to 0° and, with vigorous stirring, add an excess of ethylene oxide. Maintain the temperature at 0° for 1 hour after the ethylene oxide has been introduced, then allow the temperature to rise to 40° and maintain the mixture at this temperature for 1 hour. Finally heat the mixture on a water bath for 2 hours. Decompose the addition product and isolate the alcohol according to the procedure for n-hexyl alcohol (Section 111,18) the addition of benzene is unnecessary. Collect the n-nonyl alcohol at 95-100°/12 mm. The yield is 95 g. 

Place a mixture of 1 0 g. of the hydrocarbon, 10 ml. of dry methylene chloride or ethylene dichloride or syw.-tetrachloroethane, 2 5 g. of powdered anhydrous aluminium chloride and 1-2 g. of pure phthalic anhydride in a 50 ml. round-bottomed flask fitted with a short reflux condenser. Heat on a water bath for 30 minutes (or until no more hydrogen chloride fumes are evolved), and then cool in ice. Add 10 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid cautiously and shake the flask gently for 5 min utes. Filter oflf the solid at the pump and wash it with 10-15 ml. of cold water. Boil the resulting crude aroylbenzoic acid with 10 ml. of 2 -5N sodium carbonate solution and 0 2 g. of decolourising carbon for 5 minutes, and filter the hot solution. Cool, add about 10 g. of crushed ice and acidify... 

Cool the filtrate (A) to 5-10° and add concentrated hydrochloric acid dropwise and with vigorous stirring (FUME CUPBOARD hydrogen cyanide is evolved) to a pH of 1-2 (about 50 ml.) a crude, slightly pink 3-indoleacetic acid is precipitated. The yield of crude acid, m.p. 159-161°, is 20 g. Recrystallise from ethylene dichloride containing a small amount of ethanol 17 -5 g. of pure 3 indoleacetic acid, m.p. 167-168°, are obtained. 

The salt gradually dissolved. After an additional 30 min (at -60°C) the solution was cooled to -75°C and 19 ml of dry, pure HMPT and 0.4 mol (large excess) of ethylene oxide (cooled below 0°C) were added successively in 1-2 min. The temperature of the mixture was held at -60°C for 2 h, and was then allowed to rise gradually in 2 h to 0°C. Ice-water (200 ml) was added (with stirring) and, after Separation of the layers, five extractions with diethyl ether were carried out. 

A solution of a-lithiomethoxyallene was prepared from nethoxyal lene and 0.20 mol of ethyllithiurn (note 1) in about 200 ml of diethyl ether (see Chapter II, Exp. 15). The solution was cooled to -50°C and 0.20 mol of ethylene oxide was added immediately. The cooling bath was removed temporarily and the temperature was allowed to rise to -15 c and was kept at this level for 2.5 h. The mixture was then poured into 200 ml of saturated ammonium chloride solution, to which a few millilitres of aqueous ammonia had been added (note 2). After shaking the layers were separated. The aqueous layer was extracted six times with small portions of diethyl ether. The combined ethereal solutions were dried over sodium sulfate and subsequently concentrated in a water-pump vacuum. Distillation of the... 

A suspension of di1ithiohexyne in diethyl ether was made from 0.20 mol of 1-hexyne and 0.5 mol ethyllithium in 400 ml of diethyl ether in the same way as described for 1-heptyne (see this chapter, Exp. 27). The suspension was cooled to -40°C and at this temperature a solution of 0.20 mol of ethylene oxide in 50 ril of diethyl ether was added in 15 min, the brown colour changing into yellow. Subsequently the temperature was allowed to rise graduallyduring 1 h to +5°C. 

In 1954 the surface fluorination of polyethylene sheets by using a soHd CO2 cooled heat sink was patented (44). Later patents covered the fluorination of PVC (45) and polyethylene bottles (46). Studies of surface fluorination of polymer films have been reported (47). The fluorination of polyethylene powder was described (48) as a fiery intense reaction, which was finally controlled by dilution with an inert gas at reduced pressures. Direct fluorination of polymers was achieved in 1970 (8,49). More recently, surface fluorinations of poly(vinyl fluoride), polycarbonates, polystyrene, and poly(methyl methacrylate), and the surface fluorination of containers have been described (50,51). Partially fluorinated poly(ethylene terephthalate) and polyamides such as nylon have excellent soil release properties as well as high wettabiUty (52,53). The most advanced direct fluorination technology in the area of single-compound synthesis and synthesis of high performance fluids is currently practiced by 3M Co. of St. Paul, Minnesota, and by Exfluor Research Corp. of Austin, Texas. 

Ethylene—tetrafluoroethylene copolymers respond weU to melt bonding to untreated aluminum, steel, and copper with peel strengths above 3.5 kN/m (20 Ibf/in.). Eor melt bonding to itself, hot-plate welding is used. The material is heated to 271—276°C, and the parts are pressed together during cooling. 

About 42% of the ethylene glycol produced domestically is used as a nonvolatile antifreeze for Hquid-cooled motor vehicles (35) see Antifreezes and DEICING fluids). With smaller cars and reduced change frequency, antifreeze demand is stable. 

Fig. 11. Linde AG acetylene recovery unit for acetylene absorption, ethylene stripping, and acetylene stripping. CW = cooling water.

Heat Pumps. Because of added capital and complexity, heat pumps are rarely economical, although they were formerly commonly used in ethylene/ethane and propylene/propane spHtters. Generally, the former spHtters are integrated into the refrigeration system the latter are driven by low level waste heat, cascading to cooling water. 

Checking Against Optimum Design. This attempts to answer the question whether a balance needs to be as it is. The first thing to compare against is the best current practice. Information is available ia the Hterature (13) for large-volume chemicals such as NH, CH OH, urea, and ethylene. The second step is to look for obvious violations of good practice on iadividual pieces of equipment. Examples of violations are stack temperatures > 150° C process streams > 120° C, cooled by air or water process streams > 65° C, heated by steam t/ urbine 65% reflux ratio > 1.15 times minimum and excess air > 10% on clean fuels. 

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