Solidification effect

Solidification. The heat of the electric arc melts a portion of the base metal and any added filler metal. The force of the arc produces localized flows within the weld pools, thus providing a stirring effect, which mixes the filler metal and that portion of the melted base metal into a fairly homogeneous weld metal. There is a very rapid transfer of heat away from the weld to the adjacent, low temperature base metal, and solidification begins nearly instantaneously as the welding heat source moves past a given location. 

Purification of a chemical species by solidification from a liquid mixture can be termed either solution crystallization or ciystallization from the melt. The distinction between these two operations is somewhat subtle. The term melt crystallization has been defined as the separation of components of a binaiy mixture without addition of solvent, but this definition is somewhat restrictive. In solution crystallization a diluent solvent is added to the mixture the solution is then directly or indirec tly cooled, and/or solvent is evaporated to effect ciystallization. The solid phase is formed and maintained somewhat below its pure-component freezing-point temperature. In melt ciystallization no diluent solvent is added to the reaction mixture, and the solid phase is formed by cooling of the melt. Product is frequently maintained near or above its pure-component freezing point in the refining sec tion of the apparatus. 

Stresses from welding result principally from the effects of differential thermal expansion and contraction arising from the large temperature difference between the weld bead and the relatively cold adjacent base metal. Shrinkage of the weld metal during solidification can also induce high residual stresses. Unless these residual stresses are removed, they remain an intrinsic condition of the weldment apart from any applied stresses imposed as a result of equipment operation. 

An example of the effect on production rates is provided by injection moulding. The longer it takes after injection for solidification of the polymer to occur, the longer will be the overall cycle. (Provided the moulding is not distorted on ejection it will only be necessary to form a rigid skin to the moulding.)... 

The theory of seaweed formation does not only apply to solidification processes but in fact to the completely different phenomenon of a wettingdewetting transition. To be precise, this applies to the so-called partial wetting scenario, where a thin liquid film may coexist with a dry surface on the same substrate. These equations are equivalent to the one-sided model of diffusional growth with an effective diffusion coefficient which depends on the viscosity and on the thermodynamical properties of the thin film. 

P. Lehmann, R. Moreau, D. Camel, R. Bolcato. A simple analysis of the effect of convection on the structure of the mushy zone in the case of horizontal Bridgman solidification. Comparison with experimental results. J Cryst Growth 183 690, 1998. 

The mixture is decanted into an Erlenmeyer flask, the residual green salts are washed with two 15-ml portions of acetone, and the washings are added to the main acetone solution. Cautiously, sodium bicarbonate (approx. 13 g) is added to the solution with swirling until the pH of the reaction mixture is neutral. The suspension is filtered, and the residue is washed with 10-15 ml of acetone. The filtrate is transferred to a round-bottom flask and concentrated on a rotary evaporator under an aspirator while the flask temperature is maintained at about 50°. The flask is cooled and the residue transferred to a separatory funnel, (If solidification occurs, the residue may be dissolved in ether to effect the transfer.) To the funnel is added 100 ml of saturated sodium chloride solution, and the mixture is extracted with two 50-ml portions of ether. The ether extracts are combined, washed with several 5-ml portions of water, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and filtered into a round-bottom flask. The ether may be distilled away at atmospheric pressure (steam bath) or evaporated on a rotary evaporator. On cooling, the residue should crystallize. If it does not, it may be treated with 5 ml of 30-60° petroleum ether, and crystallization may be induced by cooling and scratching. The crystalline product is collected by filtration and recrystallized from aqueous methanol. 4-r-Butylcyclohexanone has mp 48-49° (yield 60-90 %). 

Because of these differences, chemists differentiate these two kinds of change. We have already named the solidification of wax—in Section 1-1.2 we called this type of change a phase change. A change like combustion, with its much larger heat effects, is called a chemical change or a chemical reaction. 

The caprolactam obtained must meet die specifications of permanganate number, volatile bases, hazen color, UV transmittance, solidification point, and turbidity in order to be used for repolymerization alone or in combination witii virgin CL.5 Reported CL purification methods include recrystallization, solvent extraction, and fractional distillation. One solvent extraction technique involves membrane solvent extraction. Ion exchange resins have been shown to be effective in the purification of aqueous caprolactam solutions. In one such process,... 

The rate of catalysis of membrane bound enzymes (Plot B, Figure 1) is more greatly affected than soluble enzymes by lowering the temperature. This is due to the effect of low temperatures on the solidification of the membranes. Thus, an Arrhenius plot of the rate of a membrane-bound enzyme as a function of temperature often shows a discontinuity with a sharp break point (transition temperature) and loss of activity at the temperature where the membrane becomes a gel or more solid phase. 

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Thermally-Driven Buoyancy Flow. Thermal gradients can Induce appreciable flow velocities in fluids, as cool material is pulled downward by gravity while warmer fluid rises. This effect is Important in the solidification of crystals being grown for semiconductor applications, and might arise in some polymeric applications as well. To illustrate how easily such an effect can be added to the flow code, a body force term of pa(T-T ) has been added to the y-coraponent of the momentum equation, where here a is a coefficient of volumetric thermal expansion. 

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