Freeze contact

It is often necessary to obtain temperatures below that of the laboratory. Finely-crushed ice is used for maintaining the temperature at 0-5° it is usually best to use a slush of crushed ice with sufficient water to provide contact with the vessel to be cooled and to stir frequently. For temperatures below 0°, the commonest freezing mixture is an intimate mixture of common salt and crushed ice a mixture of one part of common salt and three parts of ice will theoretically produce a temperature of about — 20° but, in practice, the ice salt mixtures give temperatures of — 5° to — 18°. Greater cooling may be obtained by the use of crystalline calcium chloride temperatures of — 40° to — 50° may be reached with five parts of CaCl2,6H20 and 3 5-4 parts of crushed ice. 

To avoid maintenance problems, the location of pressure measurement devices must be carefully considered to protect against vibration, freezing, corrosion, temperature, overpressure, etc. For example, in the case of a hard-to-handle fluid, an inert gas is sometimes used to isolate the sensing device from direct contact with the fluid. 

Sodium chloride, an ordinaiy salt (NaCT), is the least expensive per volume of any brine available. It can be used in contact with food and in open systems because of its low toxicity. Heat transfer coefficients are relatively high. However, its drawbacks are it has a relatively high freezing point and is highly corrosive (requires inhibitors thus must Be checked on a regular schedule). 

The acetal (b 82.5°) is removed during fractional distn. Traces of benzene, if present, can be removed as the benzene/MeOH azeotrope by distn in the presence of MeOH. Distn from LiAlHa removes aldehydes, peroxides and water. Dioxane can be dried using Linde type 4X molecular sieves. Other purification procedures include distn from excess C2H5MgBr, refluxing with Pb02 to remove peroxides, fractional crystn by partial freezing and the addition of KI to dioxane acidified with aq HCl. Dioxane should be stored out of contact with air, preferably under N2. 

On contact with the skin, liquid ammonia produces severe burns compounded by frostbite due to the freezing effect from rapid evaporation from the skin. 

Provision of efficient drift eliminators of water cooling towers consideration of replacement by air cooling systems. Thermal insulation to protect personnel from contact with hot or cold surfaces prevention of water supply disruption by freezing. 

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