Direct drying techniques

Advantages Easy to perform Oven drying easy to 

Disadvantages Alteration of hydration Generally, chemically bound 

Suggested use Stop samples (crushed or cut Freeze-drying or other 

SEM analyses with isopropanol used if only the portlandite 

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Table 1.2 Advantages and disadvantages of solvent exchange and direct drying techniques for hydration stoppage ...

In the direct insertion technique, the sample (liquid or powder) is inserted into the plasma in a graphite, tantalum, or tungsten probe. If the sample is a liquid, the probe is raised to a location just below the bottom of the plasma, until it is dry. Then the probe is moved upward into the plasma. Emission intensities must be measured with time resolution because the signal is transient and its time dependence is element dependent, due to selective volatilization of the sample. The intensity-time behavior depends on the sample, probe material, and the shape and location of the probe. The main limitations of this technique are a time-dependent background and sample heterogeneity-limited precision. Currently, no commercial instruments using direct sample insertion are available, although both manual and h ly automated systems have been described. ... 

The dry combustion-direct injection technique provides many advantages over other methods, such as quick response and complete oxidation for determining the carbon content of water. Its primary shortcoming is the need for rapid discrete sample injection into a high-temperature combustion tube. When an aqueous sample is injected into the furnace, it is instantaneously vapourised at 900 °C and a 5000-fold volume increase can be expected. Such a sudden change in volume causes so-called system blank and limits the maximum volume of injectable water sample, which in turn limits the sensitivity [106,107]. 

Both wet-ceramic techniques and direct-deposition techniques require preparation of the feedstock, which can consist of dry powders, suspensions of powders in liquid, or solution precursors for the desired phases, such as nitrates of the cations from which the oxides are formed. Section 6.1.3 presented some processing methods utilized to prepare the powder precursors for use in SOFC fabrication. The component fabrication methods are presented here. An overview of the major wet-ceramic and direct-deposition techniques utilized to deposit the thinner fuel cell components onto the thicker structural support layer are presented below. 

A direct liquefaction technique, the SRC process involves mixing dried and finely pulverized coal with a hydrogen donor solvent, such as tetralin, to form a coal-solvent slurry. The slurry is pumped together with hydrogen into a pressurized, vertical flow reactor. The reactor temperature is about 825°F (440°C) and pressures range from 1,450 to 2,000 psi. A residence time in the reactor of about 30 minutes is required for the carbonaceous material to dissolve into solution. From the reactor, the product passes through a vapor/liquid separation system. The slurry solids remaining in the reactor are then removed and filtered. Various filtration techniques have been developed to remove solids from recoverable oil. 

The spray-dried flavours or powder blends are processed by a roller compactor into lumps (Fig. 21.12). These lumps are crushed into granules. This process cannot be categorised as a direct encapsulating technique, since the flavour-encapsulating effect of compacted flavours is based on the use of spray-dried raw material. 

Lin, S. Kao, Y. Solid particulates of drug-Jl-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes directly prepared by a spray-drying technique. Int. J. Pharm. 1989, 56, 249-259. 

There are many advanced drying techniques for nanomaterials that have not been classified systemically so far. In this chapter, we try to classify these methods into direct drying, solvent-replacement drying, and modification drying for nanomaterials. 

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