Extractable additives

This will be the most complex field of the three with sample extracts derived from up to six of the following groups  

Various other additives such as fire retardants, blowing agents or nucleating 

1 Extraction techniques. Various procedures for the extraction of additives from polypropylene have been reported [1-6], many directly coupled to techniques such as GC, HPLC or UV-visible spectroscopy. Some use Soxhlet extraction or extraction under reflux with solvents such as chloroform, hexane or diethyl ether. Others use a dissolution procedure with solvents such as toluene or xylene followed by precipitation of the polymer, either by the addition of methanol or ethanol or by cooling. A more recent development has been the use of a microwave oven for the rapid extraction in 3-6 min of additives from polypropylene [7]. 

Extraction data for some common additives using chloroform are given in Table 2.2. From this set of results it can be seen that optimum extraction is obtained from a 1 h extraction on sieved freeze-ground material, although for Tinuvin 326 the results are marginal. Additionally, all the results for the freeze-ground materials are in agreement with their nominal values. 

Irganox Irganox Irgafos Irganox Atmer Tinuvin 

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The next pair of canonical variates, t2 and U2 also has maximum correlation P2, subject, however, to the condition that this second pair should be uncorrelated to the first pair, i.e. t t2 = u U2 = 0. For the example at hand, this second canonical correlation is much lower p2 = 0.55 R = 0.31). For larger data sets, the analysis goes on with extracting additional pairs of canonical variables, orthogonal to the previous ones, until the data table with the smaller number of variables has been... 

Solid phase extraction (SPE) is a very simple, rapid and reproducible cleanup technique that is now widely accepted as an alternative to the time-consuming liquid-liquid extractions. Additionally, SPE uses relatively small volumes of solvents, and is easy to automate. It is available in a number of different formats, including cartridges, disks, loose material, well plates or SPME using film-coated capillaries. SPE can be considered as an extraction technique when used for isolation and concentration or a cleanup technique when used to remove co-extractives from solvent extracts. The use of SPE for cleanup is discussed later. 

As may be seen from Table 3.22, MTBE does not extract additives from PA6, as opposed to dissolution in the expensive solvent HFIP. It is also evident that in these conditions intact Ultranox 626 is not observed the hydrolysis product 2,4-di-f-butylphenol (2,4-DTBP) is observed instead. 31P NMR confirms hydrolysis of Ultranox 626. The results do not discriminate between hydrolysis during mixing or analysis. As also SFE does not detect Ultranox 626 hydrolysis is likely to occur in the mixing step. Dissolution with HFIP and SFE (after optimisation) give identical results. In this case the added value of SFE extraction consists in a considerable cost reduction. 

Applications SFE/ESE is a very recent development, which has been used to extract additives from LDPE/(BHT, BHEB, Isonox 129, Irganox 1010, Irganox 1076) with EtOAc/CH3CN (1 1) (ESE ) in combination with scC02 (SFE) [498]. 

In LC-MS, specific ionisation conditions can be required for different types of species. This means that in LC-MS studies on extractable additives, it is necessary to use a range of experimental conditions to cover detection of all types of potential species. Depending on instrument type, it is also possible to isolate ions in complex matrices and obtain positive identifications by further unique fragmentation of these ions (by MS-MS or MSn). Quantitative methods based on this secondary ionisation can be employed. The mass accuracy of LC-MS detection systems continues to improve. Accurate mass measurement improves the certainty of identification. Advanced systems are typically offering 1-2 ppm (mass dependent) mass accuracy. 

The mixture has 20% 3He concentration. Only 6.7% is used in the cooling point, so that the dilution process extracts additional power in the return line until the J-T expansion (see Fig. 6.17). 

Dual-energy is a CT imaging approach aimed at generating and extracting additional information beyond material density from image slices. The additional information, a second material property, is known as the effective atomic number, Zeff. Although the X-ray attenuation coefficient is proportional to a material s density p, it is also a function (i) of the atomic number Z of each of the material s... 

This coefficient gives quantitative information for the separation of both species. Working with mixtures of extractants, additional experimental information is needed and the synergistic coefficient (5C) defined by [9] ... 

Therapy is determined by the level of factor VIII deficiency. Severely affected patients have concentrations less than 1 %, in moderate disease this is present between 1 and 5 % whereas plasma levels between 5 and 30 % may be associated with bleeding only after trauma such as dental extraction. Additionally, the choice of replacement is modified by the site of bleeding and the presence or absence of inhibitors that interfere with the function of the factor. Cryoprecipitate or lyophilised concentrate is becom-... 

The pneumatic soil fracturing (PSF) technology is a commercially available, in situ technology that increases the airflow in low-permeability soils, such as clay, thus increasing the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) withdrawn by vacuum extraction. Additional flow paths are created by injecting compressed air into soil, creating fractures around the injection point. 

Naoe et al. [239] used the sugar ester DK-F-110, a mixture of sucrose esters of fatty acids, as a nonionic surfactant along with isopropyl alcohol and hexane in a reverse micellar system to extract cytochrome C. This surfactant has a critical micellar concentration of 0.5 g/1 and HLB of 11. Aqueous phase pH was found to have a major role in the forward extraction and optimum extraction was achieved at pH 8.0. However, for optimum back extraction, addition of isopropyl alcohol at 20 vol.% was found to be very essential. Further, the esterification reaction rate of Rhizopus delemar lipase was found to be maximum in DK-F-110 systems and also higher than those obtained in AOT and lecithin-RMs at a water concentration of 0.25 mol l h... 

On cooling, a yellow precipitate forms in the filtrate. This precipitate is separated and washed with absolute ethanol. The wash solution, combined with the filtrate, is used to extract additional product from the inorganic materials previously separated. The combined yellow crystals are recrystallized from absolute ethanol yield 4.1 gm (55.4 %), m.p. 156°-l 58°C. 

Miscellaneous Extractions. Additional extractive separations using sulfolane involve (/) mercaptans and sulfides from sour petroleum (45) (2) /-butylstyrene from t-butylethylbenzene (46) (3) mixtures of dose boiling chlorosilanes (47) and (4) aromatics from kerosene (48—50), naphtha (49,51—53), and aviation turbine fuel (54). 

Biochemical proof that repressor inhibits operon expression was shown in a cell-free system in which most of the components were prepared from an i extract. Addition of repressor to such an extract inhibited the synthesis of j8-galactosidase. This inhibition was reversed by addition of IPTG inducer. 

The possibility of detecting a phosphotionate pesticide in durum wheat has been also investigated. The determination was accomplished via chemical oxidation of the phosphothionate molecule both in buffer and in matrix extract solution optimizing the experimental parameters (reagents concentration and reaction time). The procedure was then applied to standardize the pirimiphos methyl detection obtaining the calibration curves under different conditions. The LOD with matrix extract was 50 or 100 ng/mL, depending on the extract % addition, which allowed the detection of samples contaminated at the MRL — 5 mg/kg. The samples mean recovery was 70.3% and no false positive samples were detected [49]. 

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