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For the latter purpose, dissolve the crystals in hot ethanol, and then add water drop by drop to the well-stirred solution until a line emulsion just appears then add more ethanol, also drop by drop, until the emulsion just redissolves. ow allow the solution to cool spontaneousK if the emulsion reappears, add a few drops of ethanol from time to time in order to keep the solution clear. Finally the o-nitrophenol separates in crystals, and the well-stirred mixture may now be cooled in ieewvater until crystallisation is complete. Filter, drain and diy either in an atmospheric desiccator, or by pressing between drying-paper. 

Remove the tube K and the bung L. Examine the underside of the bung for any particles of silver halide that might be adhering wash any such particles down into the funnel G with a small quantity of ethanol. Then wash the inside walls of the funnel, under gentle suction, with 5 ml. of ethanol from a wash-bottle, and finally the walls and precipitate with two 5 ml. portions of acetone, and drain well. 

Ethanol. From the point of view of availabiUty, ethanol is extremely attractive because it can be produced from renewable biomass. Estimates... 

Cost estimates of producing ethanol from com have many uncertainties (11). Most estimates fall into the range of 0.26 to 0.40 per Hter ( 1 to 1.50/gal), after taking credits for protein by-products, although some estimates are lower. These estimates do not make ethanol competitive with oil until... 

Supercritical Extraction. The use of a supercritical fluid such as carbon dioxide as extractant is growing in industrial importance, particularly in the food-related industries. The advantages of supercritical fluids (qv) as extractants include favorable solubiHty and transport properties, and the abiHty to complete an extraction rapidly at moderate temperature. Whereas most of the supercritical extraction processes are soHd—Hquid extractions, some Hquid—Hquid extractions are of commercial interest also. For example, the removal of ethanol from dilute aqueous solutions using Hquid carbon dioxide... 

Because oil and gas ate not renewable resources, at some point in time alternative feedstocks will become attractive however, this point appears to be fat in the future. Of the alternatives, only biomass is a renewable resource (see Fuels frombiomass). The only chemical produced from biomass in commercial quantities at the present time is ethanol by fermentation. The cost of ethanol from biomass is not yet competitive with synthetically produced ethanol from ethylene. Ethanol (qv) can be converted into a number of petrochemical derivatives and could become a significant source. 

The development of freeze-drying for the production of blood derivatives was pioneered during World War II (96,97). It is used for the stabilization of coagulation factor (98,99) and intravenous immunoglobulin (IgG iv) products, and also for the removal of ethanol from intramuscular immunoglobulin (IgG im) solutions prior to their final formulation (Fig. 2). 

Ethanol from grains, and ethanol, methanol, and gasoline from energy crops. 

Fig. 20. Energy inputs and outputs to manufacture 3.785 L of anhydrous ethanol from com. (-) denotes system boundary. AH KJ figures are lower...

Yeast (qv) metabolize maltose and glucose sugars via the Embden-Meyerhof pathway to pymvate, and via acetaldehyde to ethanol. AH distiUers yeast strains can be expected to produce 6% (v/v) ethanol from a mash containing 11% (w/v) starch. Ethanol concentration up to 18% can be tolerated by some yeasts. Secondary products (congeners) arise during fermentation and are retained in the distiUation of whiskey. These include aldehydes, esters, and higher alcohols (fusel oHs). NaturaHy occurring lactic acid bacteria may simultaneously ferment within the mash and contribute to the whiskey flavor profile. 

Pervaporation. Vapor arbitrated pervaporation is used to remove ethanol from whiskey by selective passage of the alcohol through a membrane. Whiskey flows on one side of a membrane. A water-vapor stream flows on the other side and sweeps away the ethanol that permeates the membrane. Thus alcohol reduction and selective retention of flavor and aroma components can be achieved usiag membranes with a particular porosity. The ethanol can be recovered by condensing or scmbbiag the vapor stream. Pervaporation systems operate at or slightly above atmospheric pressure (Fig. 

More recently, interest has developed in the use of enzymes to catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose (25—27). Domestic or forest product wastes can be used to produce the fermentation substrate. Whereas there has been much research on alcohol fermentation, whether from cereal grains, molasses, or wood hydrolysis, the commercial practice of this technology is primarily for the industrial alcohol and beverage alcohol industries. About 100 plants have been built for fuel ethanol from com, but only a few continue to operate (28). 

Cyclopentadiene itself has been used as a feedstock for carbon fiber manufacture (76). Cyclopentadiene is also a component of supported metallocene—alumoxane polymerization catalysts in the preparation of syndiotactic polyolefins (77), as a nickel or iron complex in the production of methanol and ethanol from synthesis gas (78), and as Group VIII metal complexes for the production of acetaldehyde from methanol and synthesis gas (79). 

Fig. 9. Extractive distillation sequence cost as a function of the feed ratio for the production of anhydrous ethanol from azeotropic ethanol using ethylene glvcol at reflux ratios of A, 1.15 r O, 1.2 r and 1.3 r (39). Point A represents a previously pubhshed design for the same mixture (37).

Fig. 18. Separation of ethanol from an ethanol—water—benzene mixture using benzene as the entrainer. (a) Schematic representation of the azeo-column (b) material balance lines where I denotes the homogeneous and the heterogeneous azeotropes D, the end points of the Hquid tie-line and A, the overhead vapor leaving the top of the column. The distillate regions, I, II, and III, and the boundaries are marked. Other terms are defined in text.

Industrial ethyl alcohol can be produced synthetically from ethylene [74-85-17, as a by-product of certain industrial operations, or by the fermentation of sugar, starch, or cellulose. The synthetic route suppHes most of the industrial market in the United States. The first synthesis of ethanol from ethylene occurred in 1828 in Michael Faraday s lab in Cambridge (40). 

Indirect Hydration (Esterification—Hydrolysis) Process. The preparation of ethanol from ethylene by the use of sulfuric acid is a three-step process (Fig. 1) ... 

Synthesis Ga.s, Since petroleum prices rose abmpdy in 1974, the production of ethanol from synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, has received considerable attention. The use of synthesis gas as a base raw material has the same drawback as fermentation technology low yields limited by stoichiometry. 

The concern of the government is to prevent tax-free industrial ethanol from finding its way into beverages. To achieve this end, the regulations call for a combination of financial and adininistrative controls (bonds, permits, and scmpulous record keeping) and chemical controls (denaturants that make the ethanol unpalatable). Regulations estabUsh four distinct classifications of industrial ethanol. The classifications with the most stringent financial and adininistrative controls call for Httle or no chemical denaturants. The classifications that call for the most effective chemical denaturants require the least financial and administrative controls. For a Hst of denaturants currently authorized, see Reference 284. 

Ethyl Ether. Most ethyl ether is obtained as a by-product of ethanol synthesis via the direct hydration of ethylene. The procedure used for production of diethyl ether [60-29-7] from ethanol and sulfuric acid is essentially the same as that first described in 1809 (340). The chemical reactions involved in the production of ethyl ether by the indirect ethanol-from-ethylene process are like those for the production of ether from ethanol using sulfuric acid. 

Adsorption of methanol and ethanol from gas phase on the surfaee of VO, was smdied by isotherms of resistanee (R, Om - t, s). 

This information coupled with the proposed mechanism of the Conrad-Limpach reaction, reasonably lead to the below proposed mechanisms. Conjugate addition of aniline and elimination of alcohol provides the P-anilinoacrylate 14, which upon heating to 180-320 °C gives species, like 34a,b, which undergo 6n-electrocyclization to 35 or 36, respectively. Loss of ethanol from 36 gives 35 and tautomerization provides 4-... 

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