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Find a way to overcome the constraint while still maintaining the areas. This is often possible by using indirect heat transfer between the two areas. The simplest option is via the existing utility system. For example, rather than have a direct match between two streams, one can perhaps generate steam to be fed into the steam mains and the other use steam from the same mains. The utility system then acts as a buffer between the two areas. Another possibility might be to use a heat transfer medium such as a hot oil which circulates between the two streams being matched. To maintain operational independence, a standby heater and cooler supplied by utilities is needed in the hot oil circuit such that if either area is not operational, utilities could substitute heat recovery for short periods. 

Note one further point fi om Fig. 16.7. The number of units is 7 in total (including the heater and cooler). Referring back to Example 7.1, the target for the minimum number of units was calculated to be 7. It therefore appears that there was something in our procedure... 

The most common technique for estimating thermal stability is called the Jet Fuel Thermal Oxidation Test (JFTOT). It shows the tendency of the fuel to form deposits on a metallic surface brought to high temperature. The sample passes under a pressure of 34.5 bar through a heated aluminum tube (260°C for Jet Al). After two and one-half hours, the pressure drop across a 17-micron filter placed at the outlet of the heater is measured (ASTM D 3241). 

This category comprises conventional LPG (commercial propane and butane), home-heating oil and heavy fuels. All these materials are used to produce thermal energy in equipment whose size varies widely from small heaters or gas stoves to refinery furnaces. Without describing the requirements in detail for each combustion system, we will give the main specifications for each of the different petroleum fuels. 

In the refinery the salts deposit in the tubes of exchangers and reduce heat transfer, while in heater tubes, hot spots are created favoring coke formation. 

The visbreaking process thermally cracks atmospheric or vacuum residues. Conversion is limited by specifications for marine or Industrial fuel-oil stability and by the formation of coke deposits in equipment such as heaters and exchangers. 

For dehydration of very high viscosity crudes, heaters can be used in combination with dehydration tanks. The temperature to which the crude is heated is a function of the viscosity required for effective separation. 

Such a resistance device is usually called an electrical heater but, since there is no means of measurement at the boundary between the resistance and the material in contact with it, it is easier to regard the resistance as being inside the system, i.e. a part of it. Energy enters the system in the fomi of work where the wire breaches the wall, i.e. enters the container. 

Note that in this special case, the heat absorbed directly measures a state fiinction. One still has to consider how this constant-volume heat is measured, perhaps by an electric heater , but then is this not really work Conventionally, however, if work is restricted to pressure-volume work, any remaining contribution to the energy transfers can be called heat . 

All calorimeters consist of the calorimeter proper and its surround. This surround, which may be a jacket or a batii, is used to control tlie temperature of the calorimeter and the rate of heat leak to the environment. For temperatures not too far removed from room temperature, the jacket or bath usually contains a stirred liquid at a controlled temperature. For measurements at extreme temperatures, the jacket usually consists of a metal block containing a heater to control the temperature. With non-isothemial calorimeters (calorimeters where the temperature either increases or decreases as the reaction proceeds), if the jacket is kept at a constant temperature there will be some heat leak to the jacket when the temperature of the calorimeter changes. 

With most non-isothemial calorimeters, it is necessary to relate the temperature rise to the quantity of energy released in the process by determining the calorimeter constant, which is the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of the calorimeter by one degree. This value can be detemiined by electrical calibration using a resistance heater or by measurements on well-defined reference materials [1], For example, in bomb calorimetry, the calorimeter constant is often detemiined from the temperature rise that occurs when a known mass of a highly pure standard sample of, for example, benzoic acid is burnt in oxygen. 

Figure Bl.27.4. Rotating bomb isoperibole calorimeter. A, stainless steel bomb, platinum lined B, heater C, thermostat can D, thennostat iimer wall E, themiostat water G, sleeve for temperature sensor H, motor for bomb rotation J, motor for calorimeter stirrer K, coimection to cooling or heating unit for thennostat L, circulation pump.

Figure Bl.27.5. A typical solution calorimeter with thennometer, heater and an ampoule on the base of the stirrer which is broken by depressing it against the ampoule breaker. (Reproduced with pennission from Suimer S and Wadso I 1959 Acta. Chem. Scand. 13 97.)...

Figure Bl.27.7. Schematic diagram of isothennal displacement calorimeter A, glass calorimeter cell B, sealed heater C, stainless steel stirrer D, thennistor E, inlet tube F, valve G, window shutters Ft, silver rod ...

Figure Bl.27.8. Schematic view of Picker s flow microcalorimeter. A, reference liquid B, liquid under study P, constant flow circulating pump and 2, Zener diodes acting as heaters T and T2, thennistors acting as temperature sensing devices F, feedback control N, null detector R, recorder Q, themiostat. In the above A is the reference liquid and C2is the reference cell. When B circulates in cell C this cell is the working cell. (Reproduced by pemiission from Picker P, Leduc P-A, Philip P R and Desnoyers J E 1971 J. Chem. Thermo. B41.)...

Figure C3.1.1. The basic elements of a time-resolved spectral measurement. A pump source perturbs tlie sample and initiates changes to be studied. Lasers, capacitive-discharge Joule heaters and rapid reagent mixers are some examples of pump sources. The probe and detector monitor spectroscopic changes associated with absorjDtion, fluorescence, Raman scattering or any otlier spectral approach tliat can distinguish the initial, intennediate and final...

For the filtration of small quantities of dilute solution, it is often possible to dispense with the outer heater, and use the ordinary glass funnel which has been heated above a flame immediately before use. 

Consequently traces of these unstable peroxides are present in samples of all the lower aliphatic ethers unless the samples have been freshly distilled. If these ethers when being distilled are heated on, for example, an electric heater, the final residue of peroxide may become sufficiently hot to explode violently. The use of a water-bath for heating, as described above, decreases considerably both the risk of the ether catching fire and of the peroxide exploding. 

Several forms of apparatus employing electrical heati iig wi 11 be described. A simple form may be readily constructed from a domestic electric iron of 400-500 watts rating. The handle is removed, and two holes of 8 mm. diameter are drilled through the base (ca. 11 mm. thick) so that they meet in the centre of the block. One hole is for a 360° thermometer (small bulb) the other hole is spare and can be used for comparison with a standard thermometer. The heater is mounted on a sheet of thick asbestos board which is fixed to an appropriate wooden base. The wires from the heating unit are connected to two insulated terminals fitted on the board (Fig. 11, 11, 1). The rate of heating is controlled by either of the following methods ... 

A suitable heating lamp or other heating device. The author has found the 250 watts vertical pattern radiator lamp ( sausage lamp) or, alternatively, the Santon 250 or 500 watts immersion heater f to give excellent results. 

A typical arrangement for producing a particle beam from a stream of liquid, showing (1) the nebulizer, (2) the desolvation chamber, (3) the wall heater, (4) the exit nozzle, (5, 6) skimmers 1, 2, (7) the end of the ion source, (8) the ion source, and (9) the mass analyzer. An optional GC inlet into the ion source is shown. 

The sample solution is pumped along a narrow capillary tube, the end of which becomes the nozzle of the nebulizer. On the outside of the capillary near its nozzle end, an electrical heater rapidly... 

Having removed the larger droplets, it may remain only to encourage natural evaporation of solvent from the remaining small droplets by use of a desolvation chamber. In this chamber, the droplets are heated to temperatures up to about 150 C, often through use of infrared heaters. The extra heat causes rapid desolvation of the droplets, which frequently dry out completely to leave the analyte as small particles that are swept by the argon flow into the flame. 

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