Drying removal of water

Drying removal of water from coal by thermal drying, screening, or centrifuging. Dull coal coal that absorbs rather than reflects light, containing mostly durain and fusain lithotypes. 

After drying (removal of water), the extract is quantitatively transferred into a Kudema-Danish flask equipped with a concentrator tube and a Snyder column for sample concentration. The apparatus is placed in a water bath and ether is evaporated out. Use boiling chips in all heating operations. The volume of the extract is concentrated down to 1 to 2 mL. 

These requirements and other reasons make the preparation of petroleum before processing very necessary. Petroleum preparation includes drying (removal of water or dewatering) and desalting of petroleum, and complete or partial removal of dissolved gas. 

Drying refers to the removal of water from a substance through a whole range of processes, including distillation, evaporation, and even physical separations such as with centrifuges. Here, consideration is restricted to the removal of moisture from solids and liquids into a gas stream (usually air) by heat, namely, thermal drying. Some of the types of equipment for removal of water also can be used for removal of organic liquids from solids. 

We may now understand the nature of the change which occurs when an anhydrous salt, say copper sulphate, is shaken with a wet organic solvent, such as benzene, at about 25°. The water will first combine to form the monohydrate in accordance with equation (i), and, provided suflScient anhydrous copper sulphate is employed, the effective concentration of water in the solvent is reduced to a value equivalent to about 1 mm. of ordinary water vapour. The complete removal of water is impossible indeed, the equilibrium vapour pressures of the least hydrated tem may be taken as a rough measure of the relative efficiencies of such drying agents. If the water present is more than sufficient to convert the anhydrous copper sulphate into the monohydrate, then reaction (i) will be followed by reaction (ii), i.e., the trihydrate will be formed the water vapour then remaining will be equivalent to about 6 mm. of ordinary water vapour. Thus the monohydrate is far less effective than the anhydrous compound for the removal of water. 

The theory of the action of drying agents has been considered in Section 1,20. We are now concerned with the practical methods for the removal of water from organic solids and liquids and from solutions of... 

Following carbonation, the product can be further purified by screening. This screening, also used to control the maximum size of the product, is followed by dewatering (qv). Rotary vacuum filters, pressure filters, or centrifuges are used in the mechanical removal of water. Final drying is accompHshed as with natural calcium carbonate in either a rotary, spray, or flash dryer. Products having mean particle sizes from submicrometers (- O-OS fiTo) to several micrometers are available. 

The plate dryer is limited in its scope of apphcations only in the consistency of the feed material (the products must be friable, free flowing, and not undergo phase changes) and diying temperatures up to 320°C. Applications include speci ty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, polymers, pigments, etc. Initial moisture or volatile level can be as high as 65 percent and the unit is often used as a final dryer to take materials to a bone-dry state, if necessary. The plate dryer can also be used for heat treatment, removal of waters of hydration (bound moisture), solvent removal, and as a product cooler. 

Removal of water from gases may be by physical or chemical means, and is commonly by adsorption on to a drying agent in a low-temperature trap. The effectiveness of drying agents depends on the vapour pressure of the hydrated compound - the lower the vapour pressure the less the remaining moisture in the gas. 

The oxidizing agent is prepared in a 500-ml flask equipped with a magnetic stirrer and cooled in an ice bath as follows In the flask are placed 60 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid and 20 ml of water, and the solution is cooled to 10°. Potassium persulfate (42 g, 0.15 mole) is added slowly to the stirred solution while maintaining the temperature below 10°. The solution is diluted with an additional 65 ml of water maintaining the temperature below 15°. The solution is now cooled to about 7° and 0.08 mole of the ketone is added over 40 minutes. After the addition has been completed, the solution is allowed to come to room temperature and stirring is continued for 20 hours. The solution is diluted carefully with 150 ml of water and extracted twice with 75-ml portions of ether. The ether is washed with sodium bicarbonate solution, followed by water, and the ethereal solution is dried. Removal of the solvent, followed by fractional distillation, affords the product ester. 

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