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The most common alternative to distillation for the separation of low-molecular-weight materials is absorption. In absorption, a gas mixture is contacted with a liquid solvent which preferentially dissolves one or more components of the gas. Absorption processes often require an extraneous material to be introduced into the process to act as liquid solvent. If it is possible to use the materials already in the process, this should be done in preference to introducing an extraneous material for reasons already discussed. Liquid flow rate, temperature, and pressure are important variables to be set. 

As with distillation, no attempt should be made to carry out any optimization of liquid flow rate, temperature, or pressure at this stage in the design. The separation in absorption is sometimes enhanced by adding a component to the liquid which reacts with the solute. 

The most common alternative to distillation for the separation of low-molecular-weight materials is absorption. Liquid flow rate, temperature, and pressure are important variables to be set, but no attempts should be made to carry out any optimization at this stage. 

Consider the simple flowsheet shown in Fig. 6.2. Flow rates, temperatures, and heat duties for each stream are shown. Two of the streams in Fig. 6.2 are sources of heat (hot streams) and two are sinks for heat (cold streams). Assuming that heat capacities are constant, the hot and cold streams can be extracted as given in Table 6.2. Note that the heat capacities CP are total heat capacities and... 

The required desiccant weight is a function of several factors the water removal requirements (mass/time), the cycle time, the equiUbrium loading of water on the desiccant at the feed conditions, the residual water loading on the desiccant after regeneration, and the size of the mass-transfer zone of the desiccant bed. These factors, in turn, depend on the flow rate, temperature, pressure, and water content of both the fluid being dried and the regeneration fluid (see Adsorption, gas separation). 

Design nd Operation. The destruction efficiency of a catalytic oxidation system is determined by the system design. It is impossible to predict a priori the temperature and residence time needed to obtain a given level of conversion of a mixture in a catalytic oxidation system. Control efficiency is determined by process characteristics such as concentration of VOCs emitted, flow rate, process fluctuations that may occur in flow rate, temperature, concentrations of other materials in the process stream, and the governing permit regulation, such as the mass-emission limit. Design and operational characteristics that can affect the destmction efficiency include inlet temperature to the catalyst bed, volume of catalyst, and quantity and type of noble metal or metal oxide used. 

Process conditions (stream compositions, flow rates, temperatures, pressures) must be specified. 

Process Gas flow rate and velocity Pollutant concentration Variability of gas and pollutant flow rates, temperature, etc. Allowable pressure drop... 

Change in gas flow rate, temperature, or pressure Insufficient glycol circulation (should be 1.5 to 3 gal TEG/lb water removed)... 

To select a process, determine flow rate, temperature, pressure, concentration of the acid gases in the inlet gas, and allowed concentration of acid gases in the outlet stream. With this information, calculate the partial pressure of the acid gas components. 

Establish operating conditions, i.e., flow rates, temperatures, pies-sures and compositions of fluid over the life of the system. This may involve several cases. 

Dispersion steam and/or lift steam/gas requirements, including flow rate, temperature, and pressure... 

Define the duty heat-transfer rate, fluid flow-rates, temperatures. 

In chemical processes, the most common types of controlled variables are liquid level, flow rate, temperature, pressure, and sometimes concentration. Here are some very general ideas. To fully appreciate these tidbits, we also need to know something about the actual hardware—actuators or control elements—which we find in handbooks or equipment manuals. 

For any project it is important that a consistent set of units are used. Most companies, in fact, prescribe that a given set of units be used for all calculations. This allows an experienced designer to easily run a rough check to determine if all the flow rates, temperatures, and sizes are reasonable. It allows persons working on different portions of the process to readily determine if there are any discontinuities at the interfaces between the sections. It also saves time and reduces the possibility of errors by minimizing the number of times that the units must be converted. 

Carbon type Given a fixed set of conditions (ie. flow rate, temperature, mass of charcoal, humidity) the type of carbon demonstrating the highest dynamic adsorption coefficient will be identified. 

Electrolysis of mobile phase constituents will cause a continuous detector response (background current) resulting in a chromatographic baseline level that differs from the electrical detector zero-response level. The difference, baseline- offset, is an important analysis parameter, because baseline fluctuations (noise, drift) due to fluctuations in electrolysis conditions (potential, mobile phase flow rate, temperature) are proportional to baseline offset. See Figure 2-5 for an example of the influence of flow pulsation at different baseline offset... 

This derivation shows that retention time is dependant on three factors temperature, energies of intermolecular interactions and flow rate. Temperature and flow rate are controlled by the user. Energies of intermolecular interactions are controlled by stationary phase choice. This theory is also the basis for the popular software programs that are available for computer-assisted method development and optimization [4,5,6,7]. More detailed descriptions of the theory behind retention times can be found in the appropriate chapters in the texts listed in the bibliography. 

Mobile phase composition, stationary phase composition, flow rate, temperature of stationary phase. 

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