Ga arrays

At the focal plane of the ISO 60 cm telescope, ISOCAM will take images of the sky in the wayelength range 2.5 to 17 m. It features two independent channels, containing each a 32 X 32 array detector. The long wavelength (4-17 pm) detector, developed by LIR-LETI specifically for ISOCAM, is a Si Ga array bonded with indium bumps to a DV readout circuit. The short wavelength (2.5- 5.5 [Pg.261]

Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF (MIPS) - G. Rieke, P.L, University of Arizona. Will use Si Sb and Ge Ga arrays for imaging and polarimetry, and use a scanning minor to rapidly survey large areas. IBAC also considering scan mirror. 

Gezarit Plate 3. Small scale stracture in the IRc2/IRc7 cluster imaged with the Si Ga array (the 20.0/on image was made with an Si Sb array). Dramatic structural differences are seen due to the strong silicate spectral absorption features at 9.8 and 18 on. The prominent sources are IRc2 (left), IR.c7 the new mid-in aied point source "n (below center), and the... 

McConnell et al. [196] and Andelman and co-workers have predicted [197,198] an ordered array of liquid domains in the gas-liquid coexistence regime caused by the dipole moment difference between the phases. These superstructures were observed in monolayers of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine monolayers [170]. 

Beeman J W and Haller E E 1994 Ga Ge photooonduotor arrays—design oonsiderations and quantitative analysis of prototype single pixels Infra. Rhys. Technology 25 827-36... 

The BET treatment is based on a kinetic model of the adsorption process put forward more than sixty years ago by Langmuir, in which the surface of the solid was regarded as an array of adsorption sites. A state of dynamic equilibrium was postulated in which the rate at which molecules arriving from the gas phrase and condensing on to bare sites is equal to the rate at which molecules evaporate from occupied sites. 

Gas chromatography is widely used for the analysis of a diverse array of samples in environmental, clinical, pharmaceutical, biochemical, forensic, food science, and petrochemical laboratories. Examples of these applications are discussed in the following sections. 

Despite their importance, gas chromatography and liquid chromatography cannot be used to separate and analyze all types of samples. Gas chromatography, particularly when using capillary columns, provides for rapid separations with excellent resolution. Its application, however, is limited to volatile analytes or those analytes that can be made volatile by a suitable derivatization. Liquid chromatography can be used to separate a wider array of solutes however, the most commonly used detectors (UV, fluorescence, and electrochemical) do not respond as universally as the flame ionization detector commonly used in gas chromatography. 

This expression includes the use of detector arrays of detectors with additive signals and sample addition of samples to improve sensitivity. Typical sensor parameters are = 1 mW/cm, NEP = 30 pW, = 1.5E — 5 cm, = 60, = 1 for imaging and ca 600 for nonimaging gas detection. 

Currently, almost all acetic acid produced commercially comes from acetaldehyde oxidation, methanol or methyl acetate carbonylation, or light hydrocarbon Hquid-phase oxidation. Comparatively small amounts are generated by butane Hquid-phase oxidation, direct ethanol oxidation, and synthesis gas. Large amounts of acetic acid are recycled industrially in the production of cellulose acetate, poly(vinyl alcohol), and aspirin and in a broad array of other... 

Propylene oxide is also produced in Hquid-phase homogeneous oxidation reactions using various molybdenum-containing catalysts (209,210), cuprous oxide (211), rhenium compounds (212), or an organomonovalent gold(I) complex (213). Whereas gas-phase oxidation of propylene on silver catalysts results primarily in propylene oxide, water, and carbon dioxide as products, the Hquid-phase oxidation of propylene results in an array of oxidation products, such as propylene oxide, acrolein, propylene glycol, acetone, acetaldehyde, and others. 

Production of net-shape siUca (qv) components serves as an example of sol—gel processing methods. A siUca gel may be formed by network growth from an array of discrete coUoidal particles (method 1) or by formation of an intercoimected three-dimensional network by the simultaneous hydrolysis and polycondensation of a chemical precursor (methods 2 and 3). When the pore Hquid is removed as a gas phase from the intercoimected soHd gel network under supercritical conditions (critical-point drying, method 2), the soHd network does not coUapse and a low density aerogel is produced. Aerogels can have pore volumes as large as 98% and densities as low as 80 kg/m (12,19). 

For quantitative analysis, the resolution of the spectral analyzer must be significantly narrower than the absorption lines, which are - 0.002 nm at 400 nm for Af = 50 amu at 2500°C (eq. 4). This is unachievable with most spectrophotometers. Instead, narrow-line sources specific for each element are employed. These are usually hoUow-cathode lamps, in which a cylindrical cathode composed of (or lined with) the element of interest is bombarded with inert gas cations produced in a discharge. Atoms sputtered from the cathode are excited by coUisions in the lamp atmosphere and then decay, emitting very narrow characteristic lines. More recendy semiconductor diode arrays have been used for AAS (168) (see Semiconductors). 

As for oil and gas, the burner is the principal device required to successfully fire pulverized coal. The two primary types of pulverized-coal burners are circular concentric and vertical jet-nozzle array burners. Circular concentric burners are the most modem and employ swid flow to promote mixing and to improve flame stabiUty. Circular burners can be single or dual register. The latter type was designed and developed for NO reduction. Either one of these burner types can be equipped to fire any combination of the three principal fuels, ie, coal, oil and gas. However, firing pulverized coal with oil in the same burner should be restricted to short emergency periods because of possible coke formation on the pulverized-coal element (71,72). 

Decomposition Flame Arresters Above certain minimum pipe diameters, temperatures, and pressures, some gases may propagate decomposition flames in the absence of oxidant. Special in-line arresters have been developed (Fig. 26-27). Both deflagration and detonation flames of acetylene have been arrested by hydrauhc valve arresters, packed beds (which can be additionally water-wetted), and arrays of parallel sintered metal elements. Information on hydraulic and packed-bed arresters can be found in the Compressed Gas Association Pamphlet G1.3, Acetylene Transmission for Chemical Synthesis. Special arresters have also been used for ethylene in 1000- to 1500-psi transmission lines and for ethylene oxide in process units. Since ethylene is not known to detonate in the absence of oxidant, these arresters were designed for in-line deflagration application. 

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