Cuts, treatment

If opportunities are sought to cut treatment costs, this is not a suitable area ... 

In the specific area of C4 cut treatment, two techniques have culminated in industrial plants. Union Carbide s Olefm-Siv process and UOP s Sorbutene process. 

Water, the universal solvent, Is everywhere around us. While additives can actually Improve water quality for some uses, water impurities can cause corrosion and fouling of equipment and be a source of disease and pollution. Automated analysis is the key to solving critical water quality problems. Fast detection and correction of abnormalities are also important steps towards cutting treatment costs and keeping a plant in compliance with regulatory statutes. 

The bottoms from the demethanizers are sent to the cut treatment for ethylene purification. 

Sulfonic acids can come from the sulfonation of oil cuts from white oil production by sulfuric acid treatment. Sodium salts of alkylaromatic sulfonic acids are compounds whose aliphatic chains contain around 20 carbon atoms. The aromatic ring compounds are mixtures of benzene and naphthalene rings. 

We cite isomerization of Cs-Ce paraffinic cuts, aliphatic alkylation making isoparaffinic gasoline from C3-C5 olefins and isobutane, and etherification of C4-C5 olefins with the C1-C2 alcohols. This type of refinery can need more hydrogen than is available from naphtha reforming. Flexibility is greatly improved over the simple conventional refinery. Nonetheless some products are not eliminated, for example, the heavy fuel of marginal quality, and the conversion product qualities may not be adequate, even after severe treatment, to meet certain specifications such as the gasoline octane number, diesel cetane number, and allowable levels of certain components. 

Injection of produced water is not a new idea, but the technique has met resistance due to concerns about reservoir impairment (solids or oil in the water may block the reservoir pores and reducing permeability). However, as a field produces at increasingly high water cuts, the potential savings through reduced treatment costs compared with the consequences of impairment become more attractive. 

If gas export or disposal is a problem gas re-injection into the reservoir may be an alternative, although this implies additional compression facilities. Gas production may be reduced using well intervention methods similar to those described for reducing water cut, though in this case up-dip wells would be isolated to cut back gas influx. Many of the options discussed under water treatment for multi-layered reservoirs apply equally well to the gas case. 

Extended defects range from well characterized dislocations to grain boundaries, interfaces, stacking faults, etch pits, D-defects, misfit dislocations (common in epitaxial growth), blisters induced by H or He implantation etc. Microscopic studies of such defects are very difficult, and crystal growers use years of experience and trial-and-error teclmiques to avoid or control them. Some extended defects can change in unpredictable ways upon heat treatments. Others become gettering centres for transition metals, a phenomenon which can be desirable or not, but is always difficult to control. Extended defects are sometimes cleverly used. For example, the smart-cut process relies on the controlled implantation of H followed by heat treatments to create blisters. This allows a thin layer of clean material to be lifted from a bulk wafer [261. 

In order to save the cost of the distilling-flask (which after the above treatment is useless for further work), the mixture may be distilled from a small retort made by blowing a suitable bulb on the end of a rather thick-walled tube of about 8-10 mm. internal diameter the tube is then bent through almost 90° a few cm. above the bulb, cut to a suitable length, and the Open end fitted into the boiling ube as before. 

Panels for siding might be cut to resemble rough-cut lumber and grooved at intervals to show the appearance of board-on-board siding. Other treatments might include pressure-treatment with preservatives or fire-retardant chemicals for special appHcations requiring these characteristics. 

Secondary Treatments and Uses. Because hardboard products are utilized in a myriad of different ways, the variety of secondary treatments used by customers are practically unlimited. Hardboards are used in furniture, cabinets, paneling, doors, toys, and a host of other uses. Post-treatments may include cutting-to-size, finishing treatments with roU-appHed patterns, melamine overlays, printed paper overlays, paints, and even some extremely durable and water-resistant coatings used in tub and shower linings or other uses where water contact is frequent and extreme. 

Terephthahc acid (TA) or dimethyl terephthalate [120-61 -6] (DMT) reacts with ethyleae glycol (2G) to form bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate [959-26-2] (BHET) which is coadeasatioa polymerized to PET with the elimination of 2G. Moltea polymer is extmded through a die (spinneret) forming filaments that are solidified by air cooling. Combinations of stress, strain, and thermal treatments are appHed to the filaments to orient and crystallize the molecular chains. These steps develop the fiber properties required for specific uses. The two general physical forms of PET fibers are continuous filament and cut staple. 

The most important considerations in marketing and estabUshing a crop from a new source are constancy of supply and quahty. Eor some spices, it is difficult to reduce labor costs, as some crops demand individual manual treatment even if grown on dedicated plantations. Only the individual stigmas of the saffron flower must be picked cinnamon bark must be cut, peeled, and roUed in strips mature unopened clove buds must be picked by hand and orchid blossoms must be hand pollinated to produce the vanilla bean. 

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