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If oil and water are mixed as an emulsion, dehydration becomes much more difficult. Emulsions can form as oil-in-water or water-in-oil if mixed production streams are subjected to severe turbulence, as might occur in front of perforations in the borehole. Emulsions can be encouraged to break (or destabilise) using chemicals, heat or just gentle agitation. Chemical destabilisation is the most common method and laboratory tests would normally be conducted to determine the most suitable combination of chemicals. 

Cavitation. The subject of cavitation in pumps is of great importance. When the Hquid static pressure is reduced below its vapor pressure, vaporization takes place. This may happen because (/) the main stream fluid velocity is too high, so that static pressure becomes lower than vapor pressure (2) localized velocity increases and static pressure drops on account of vane curvature effect, especially near the inlets (J) pressure drops across the valve or is reduced by friction in front of the pump or (4) temperature increases, giving a corresponding vapor pressure increase. 

Liade AG offers the Clintox process for sulfur dioxide removal. This process uses a physical solvent to absorb the sulfur dioxide. A concentrated sulfur dioxide stream is produced by regeneration. The Clintox process can be iategrated with the Claus process by recovering sulfur dioxide from the iaciaerated tail gases and recycling the sulfur dioxide to the front of the Claus unit. 

Several other changes that are supposed to slow down the reaction can cause runaway. In the case of ethylene oxidation, chlorinated hydrocarbons are used as inhibitors. These slow down both the total and the epoxidation, although the latter somewhat less. When the reaction is running too high and the inhibitor feed is suddenly increased in an attempt to control it, a runaway may occur. The reason is similar to that for the feed temperature cut situation. Here the inhibitor that is in the ppm region reacts with the front of the catalytic bed and slowly moves down stream. The unconverted reactants reach the hotter zone before the increased inhibitor concentration does. 

The introduction of the sample valve, however, helped establish radial equilibrium early in the separation but, unless some special sample spreading device is employed at the front of the column, equilibrium will not necessarily occur at the point of injection. The stream splitting process is depicted in Figure 2. 

The first reports of plastic in the North Atlantic indicated the presence of 50-12,000 particles/km in the Sargasso Sea in 1972 (52) and from 0-14.1 particles per m in coastal waters of southern New England (42), where the main source was river-borne effluents from plastic fabrication plants (44). Plastic objects discarded from boats and from recreational activities on beaches were the main sources of debris in Narragansett Bay, being deposited at a rate of 9.6 g m of beach front per month (53). During a detailed survey off the southeast coast of the United States (43, 54), fragments of plastic were present in about 70% of the samples collected from the waters of the continental shelf, the continental slope and the Gulf Stream between Florida and Cape Cod, 50% of those from the Caribbean Sea, and 60% of those from the Antilles Current. Since unprocessed plastic was more prevalent in continental shelf waters and fabricated objects were common offshore but rare near land, the authors surmised... 

Williamson CE, Dodds W, Kratz TK, Palmer MA (2008) Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes. Front Ecol Environ 6 247-254... 

Detection and result The chromatogram was dried in a stream of warm air. Blood-red fluorescent chlorophyll zones were visible in the region of the solvent front. In the case of Orthosiphon leaf extract there was an intense pale blue fluorescent sinensetin zone OiRf 90-95) immediately below this, followed by a series of usually weaker blue fluorescent zones extending right down to the start zone (Fig. lA). 

OS 95] [R 5] [P 75] Plugs of pyridine-2-azo-p-dimethylaniline were inserted in a continuous Ni ion stream. Thereafter, spatial concentration profiles were monitored in the micro channels as a result of interpenetrating flow fronts due to varying mobility of the species in an electrical field [17]. 

The connectors used in FIA to join the tubes when the analytical system uses more than one stream usually have the shape of those in Figure 8. These connectors provide adequate mixing of the several analytical streams, while dispersion remains in relatively low levels, to achieve high measured values. The connector in Figure 8d is normally used for very fast CL reactions and allows mixing of the reagents with the analyte in front of the light detector. The choice of the connector depends mainly on the CL reaction rate (Table 3). 

Liquid seal drums Emergency vent streams are usually passed through a liquid seal, commonly water, before going to the flare stack. The liquid seal drum is usually located downstream of the knockout drum, and some vendors designs include them in the base of the flare stack. A liquid seal drum is used to maintain a positive pressure in the vent header system and upstream system. It also reduces the possibility of flame flashbacks, caused when air is inadvertently introduced into the flare system and the flame front pulls down into the stack it also acts as a mechanical damper on any explosive shock wave in the flare stack. Figure 23-58 is a schematic of a typical flare stack liquid seal drum, designed per API RP 521 criteria. 

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