Product, finished

If decomposition in the reboilers contaminates the product, then this dictates that no finished products be taken from the bottoms of columns. 

Some compounds tend to polymerize when distilled unless chemicals are added to inhibit polymerization. These polymerization inhibitors tend to be involatile, ending up in the column bottoms. If this is the case, finished products normally cannot be taken from column bottoms. 

With the introduction of new antipollution standards as well as limitations envisaged for the chemical composition of finished products, current refining flowsheets and especially those beyond the year 2000 will have to adapt to the new specifications using new processes. 

Finished product specifications and future constraints for Europe. 

Visbreaking conversion products are unstable, olefinic, and very high in sulfur and nitrogen. They must be upgraded by processing before they can be incorporated into finished products. 

Hydrotreating processes are applied to finished products to improve their characteristics sulfur content, cetane number, smoke point and the aromatics and olefins contents. 

The purpose of the nondestructive control consists in detecting local modifications of the material parameters which, by their presence can endanger the quality of the half-finished or finished products. The electromagnetic nondestructive control permits to render evident surface and subsurface discontinuities in the electroconductive material under test. The present tendency of this control is to pass from a qualitative evaluation (the presence or absence of the material discontinuities which give at the output of the control equipment a signal higher or at least equal to that coming from a standard discontinuity whose shape and severity has been prescribed by the product standards) to a quantitative one, which enables to locate as exactly as possible the discontinuity and to make predictions over its shape and severity. 

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Manufacturing processes have been improved by use of on-line computer control and statistical process control leading to more uniform final products. Production methods now include inverse (water-in-oil) suspension polymerization, inverse emulsion polymerization, and continuous aqueous solution polymerization on moving belts. Conventional azo, peroxy, redox, and gamma-ray initiators are used in batch and continuous processes. Recent patents describe processes for preparing transparent and stable microlatexes by inverse microemulsion polymerization. New methods have also been described for reducing residual acrylamide monomer in finished products. 

Cotton linters or wood pulp are nitrated using mixed acid followed by treatment with hot acidified water, pulping, neutralization, and washing. The finished product is blended for uniformity to a required nitrogen content. The controlling factors in the nitration process are the rates of diffusion of the acid into the fibers and of water out of the fibers, the composition of mixed acid, and the temperature (see Cellulose esters, inorganic esters). 

Economics. In contrast to NSP, the high nutrient content of TSP makes shipment of the finished product preferable to shipping of the raw materials. Plants, therefore, are located at or near the rock source. The phosphoric acid used, and the sulfuric acid required for its manufacture, usually are produced at the site of the TSP plant. As in the case of NSP, the cost of raw materials accounts for more than 90% of the total cost. Most of this is the cost of acid. 

More and more raw spices are converted to finished products near the growing sites. This saves shipping costs of bulk vs concentrate. Rapid processing also assures less loss of flavor volatiles resulting from evaporation, reduction of colored components due to oxidation or isomeri2ation, and reduction of losses due to insect and rodent infestation. 

The most important fields of application for PVDF resias iaclude electric and electronic iadustry products, architectural and specialty finishes, products for the chemical and related iadustries, and rapidly growing specialized uses. 

Raw Materials. PVC is inherently a hard and brittle material and very sensitive to heat it thus must be modified with a variety of plasticizers, stabilizers, and other processing aids to form heat-stable flexible or semiflexible products or with lesser amounts of these processing aids for the manufacture of rigid products (see Vinyl polymers, vinyl chloride polymers). Plasticizer levels used to produce the desired softness and flexibihty in a finished product vary between 25 parts per hundred (pph) parts of PVC for flooring products to about 80—100 pph for apparel products (245). Numerous plasticizers (qv) are commercially available for PVC, although dioctyl phthalate (DOP) is by far the most widely used in industrial appHcations due to its excellent properties and low cost. For example, phosphates provide improved flame resistance, adipate esters enhance low temperature flexibihty, polymeric plasticizers such as glycol adipates and azelates improve the migration resistance, and phthalate esters provide compatibiUty and flexibihty (245). 

In addition to surfactant properties, emulsifiers are sometimes used to enhance the fat-replacer properties of hydrocoUoid systems. Off-flavors and legal restrictions limit use in this appHcation to a level below 0.5% of the finished product (41). 

Food processing firms producing heat-preserved, frozen, dehydrated, or chemically preserved foods may be classified by their finished products. Companies may be further grouped based on whether they process raw materials into ingredients, such as in poultry and meat processing plants, or whether they take these ingredients and convert them to ready-to-eat consumer products. 

AH motor fuel in the United States is manufactured by private companies. Many of these are vertically integrated. That is, the same company finds the cmde oil or buys it from a producing government, refines it into finished products, and then sells to independent retailers who specialize in that company s blended products or sells at company operated service stations. There are also a significant number of companies that participate in only some aspects of the business cycle such as refining or marketing. 

The ideal plant growth regulator should leave no harmful persistent residue in a finished product or crop and the paradigm compounds are ones that have high specific activity, are target specific, and are environmentally biodegradable. 

Safety. Shampoos generally do not represent a hazard with regard to skin and eye safety once used, shampoos are almost immediately rinsed and have Httie contact time on sensitive areas. To assure this safety, provisions to test the finished product for skin and eye irritation should be made. 

Test salons are often used to evaluate hair fixatives. Half-head studies are performed, with the test product appHed to one side of the head and a control product to the other in reaHstic use amounts. Similar properties as desctibed in laboratory tests are measured. Finished products are often sent to testers homes where they have an opportunity to evaluate the products in real use situations for extended pedods. 

Cyclic Hydrocarbons. The cyclic hydrocarbon intermediates are derived principally from petroleum and natural gas, though small amounts are derived from coal. Most cycHc intermediates are used in the manufacture of more advanced synthetic organic chemicals and finished products such as dyes, medicinal chemicals, elastomers, pesticides, and plastics and resins. Table 6 details the production and sales of cycHc intermediates in 1991. Benzene (qv) is the largest volume aromatic compound used in the chemical industry. It is extracted from catalytic reformates in refineries, and is produced by the dealkylation of toluene (qv) (see also BTX Processing). 

Ca.ndy. Its low melting point and sugar inversion properties make malic acid a desirable acidulant, especially in hard candy products (44,45). Due to their insolubiUty, hard water salts can cause clouding of the finished product. However, because of the higher solubiUty of calcium malate [17482-42-7] relative to alternative acidulants, clarity of the finished product is enhanced. Additionally, in sugar confectionery products where acidulation may exceed 2.0%, malic acid can provide economic benefits. 

Operating parameters of this German plant, on the basis of one cubic meter of raw gas, iaclude 0.139 m O2, 0.9 kg briquettes, 1.15 kg steam, 1.10 kg feed water, 0.016 kWh, and 1.30 kg gas Hquor produced. Gasifier output is 1850 m /h and gas yield is 1465 m /t dry, ash-free coal. The coal briquettes have a 19% moisture content, 7.8% ash content (dry basis), and ash melting poiat of 1270°C. Thermal efficiency of the gas production process is about 60%, limited by the quaHty and ash melting characteristics of the coal. Overall efficiency from raw coal to finished products is less than 50%. 

These thermoplastic pigments found application in a much wider range of finished products. New, large-volume applications included coated paper for labels and point of purchase signage, gravure for soap box cartons and bright textiles for fashion, and safety applications. 

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