High diffusion

Unusual behavior has also been observed in soHd mixtures of He and He. In principle, all soHd mixtures should separate as absolute 2ero is approached, but because of kinetic limitations, this equiHbrium condition is almost never observed. However, because of high diffusivity resulting from the large 2ero-point motion in soHd helium, this sort of separation takes place in a matter of hours in soHd mixtures of He and He (53,61). The two-phase region for the soHd mixture is outlined by the dashed curve in Figure 4. The two-phase dome is shallow, and its temperature maximum is 0.38 K. 

The helium leak detector is a common laboratory device for locating minute leaks in vacuum systems and other gas-tight devices. It is attached to the vacuum system under test a helium stream is played on the suspected leak and any leakage gas is passed into a mass spectrometer focused for the helium-4 peak. The lack of nearby mass peaks simplifies the spectrometer design the low atmospheric background of helium yields high sensitivity helium s inertness ensures safety and its high diffusivity and low adsorption make for fast response. 

Fig. 17. Variety of subcritical damage mechanisms in fiber-reinforced composites, that lead to a highly diffuse damage 2one. (a) Fiber cracking, (b) matrix...

When hydrogen recovery is unsafe or otherwise impractical it is vented into the cell room or tank house. The light weight and high diffusion rate of hydrogen and good cell room ventilation have made this an accepted practice. 

Plasticization and Other Time Effects Most data from the literature, including those presented above are taken from experiments where one gas at a time is tested, with Ot calculated as a ratio of the two permeabihties. If either gas permeates because of a high-sorption coefficient rather than a high diffusivity, there may be an increase in the permeabihty of all gases in contact with the membrane. Thus, the Ot actually found in a real separation may be much lower than that calculated by the simple ratio of permeabilities. The data in the hterature do not rehably include the plasticization effect. If present, it results in the sometimes slow relaxation of polymer structure giving a rise in permeabihty and a dramatic dechne in selectivity. 

A formal derivation of diffusion in a restricted, high diffusivity path which uses no atomic model of the grain boundary is that due to Fisher, who made a flux balance in unit width of a grain boundary having a drickness of <5. There is flux accumulation in the element according to Pick s second law given by... 

The diffusion coefficients of cations in metal oxides are usually measured through the use of radioactive isotopes. Because of the friable nature of oxides it is exU emely difficult to use the sectioning technique employed for metal samples. The need for this can be avoided by the application of radioisotopes which emit radiation having a well established absorption law in matter. Isotopes which emit y radiation are very useful when the cation has a relatively high diffusion coefficient because of the long-range peneU ation of y rays. The absorption law is... 

J. W. Evans. ZGB surface reaction model with high diffusion rates. J Chem Phys 95 2463-2465, 1993. 

Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) refers to the use of mobile phases at temperatures and pressures above the critical point (supercritical) or just below (sub-critical). SFC shows several features that can be advantageous for its application to large-scale separations [132-135]. One of the most interesting properties of this technique is the low viscosity of the solvents used that, combined with high diffusion coefficients for solutes, leads to a higher efficiency and a shorter analysis time than in HPLC. 

The high diffusivity and low viscosity of sub- and supercritical fluids make them particularly attractive eluents for enantiomeric separations. Mourier et al. first exploited sub- and supercritical eluents for the separation of phosphine oxides on a brush-type chiral stationary phase [28]. They compared analysis time and resolution per unit time for separations performed by LC and SFC. Although selectivity (a) was comparable in LC and SFC for the compounds studied, resolution was consistently... 

For amorphous polymers above the T, i.e. in the flexible and rubbery states there is more space available through which diffusing molecules may pass, and so these materials show comparatively high diffusion rates with diffusing fluids. 

Indeed, the polymeric interface seems to be highly diffuse and hydrophilic because copolymers of N-vinylpyrrolidone and N- (2-hydroxyethyl) acrylamide are readily soluble in water [53]. Besides, aminopropyl-glass adsorbs the acryloyl chloride copolymer so that only 10% of its active functions become amidated. The rest is located on the loops and tails of the attached macromolecules [51]. Thus the steric repulsion of the bonded phase is a probable reason for the high inertness of the packing towards viruses. 

Calderbank and Moo-Young (C5) have studied gas-liquid mass transfer in systems characterized by high viscosities and high diffusion coefficients, and have on the basis of data obtained in this and other studies developed correlations for the mass-transfer coefficients. 

Gas-phase reactors are often in laminar flow but have such high diffusivities that radial concentration gradients tend to be unimportant. Combustion reactions are fast enough to be exceptions. See... 

Supercritical fluids (SCFs) are compounds that exist at a temperature and pressure that are above their corresponding critical values [70,71]. They exhibit the properties of both gases and Hquids. With gases, they share the properties of low surface tension, low viscosity, and high diffusivity. Their main Hquid-like feature is the density, which results in enhanced solubility of solutes compared with the solubility of gases. Furthermore, the solubility of solutes can be manipulated by changes in pressure and temperature near the critical point [72]. 

Improved heat and mass transfer due to high diffusion rates and low viscosities. 

High gas solubility Weak solvation High diffusion rates Ease of control over properties Good mass transfer Readily available Possible heat-transfer problems... 

In addition to the environmentally benign attributes and the easily tunable solvent properties, other important characteristics such as low interfacial tension, excellent wetting behavior, and high diffusion coefficients also make SCCO2 a superior medium for the synthesis of nanoscale materials [2]. Previous works on w/c RMs showed that conventional hydrocarbon surfactants such as AOT do not form RMs in scCOi [3] AOT is completely insoluble in CO2 due to the poor miscibility of the alkyl chains with CO2, restricting the utilization of this medium. Recently, we had demonstrated that the commonly used surfactant,... 

The development of CO2 fixation reactions in supercritical CO2 attracts increasing attention due to its gas-like low viscosities and high diffusivities and its liquid-like solubilizing power. Matsuda et al. attempted to carry out the con-... 

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