Hydrogen sink

The downside is that many of the heavier feedstocks act as hydrogen sinks in terms of their ability to interact with the expensive hydrogen. A balance of the economic advantages/disadvantages must be struck on an individual feedstock basis. 

The downside to the direct application of hydroprocesses to the heavy feedstocks is always hydrogen cost and catalyst life (also a cost). There is the potentially wasteful use of hydrogen with hydrogen sinks within the feedstock whereupon hydrogen is used but with little, if any, effect on the product character. 

Hydrogen sink a chemical structure within the feedstock that reacts with hydrogen with little, if any, effect on the product character. 

Dolfing J. and Tiedje J. M. (1991) Kinetics of two complementary hydrogen sink reactions in a defined 3-chlorobenzoate degrading methanogenic co-culture. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 86, 25-32. 

Dissolve 5 g. (5 ml.) of aniline in 50 ml. of warm dilute sulphuric acid in a conical flask and add 50 ml. of water. Place a thermometer in the solution, immerse the flask in a mixture of ice and water, and cool until the temperature of the stirred solution falls to 5°. Dissolve 4-5 g. of powdered sodium nitrite in 20 ml. of water, and add this solution in small quantities (about 2-3 ml. at a time) to the cold aniline sulphate solution. Keep tne latter well shaken and maintain the temperature at about 5° (see p. 183). When all the sodium nitrite solution has been added, transfer about 5 ml. of the cold solution to a test-tube for each of the following reactions. The remainder of the diazonium hydrogen sulphate solution must be kept in ice-water until required, and then when all the reactions have been carried out, the solution should be poured down the sink. 

Chlorine Tolerance Most of the best RO membranes are attacked by oxidants, and they are particularly susceptible to chlorine. A particularly sensitive locus for attack is the amidic hydrogen. Cellu-losic membranes are generally less sensitive, and pass the chlorine into the permeate giving downstream biocidal activity, veiy useful for under-the-sink RO. These factors are largely responsible for CA s survival in RO membranes. Chlorine, whatever its vices, has the virtue of being a known, effective, residual bactericide and a good inhibitor of... 

MKI The Mark I containment consists of two separate structures (volumes) connected by a series of l.irae pipes One volume, the dry well, houses the reactor vessel and primary system components. The other i oUmic is a torus, called the wetwell, containing a large amount of water used for pressure suppression and as, i heai sink. The Brunswick units use a reinforced concrete structure with a steel liner. All other M,uk 1 cnni.un ments are free-standing steel structures, The Mark I containments are inerted during plant oper.mon i. prevent hydrogen combustion. 

Several authors " have suggested that in some systems voids, far from acting as diffusion barriers, may actually assist transport by permitting a dissociation-recombination mechanism. The presence of elements which could give rise to carrier molecules, e.g. carbon or hydrogen , and thus to the behaviour illustrated in Fig. 1.87, would particularly favour this mechanism. The oxidant side of the pore functions as a sink for vacancies diffusing from the oxide/gas interface by a reaction which yields gas of sufficiently high chemical potential to oxidise the metal side of the pore. The vacancies created by this reaction then travel to the metal/oxide interface where they are accommodated by plastic flow, or they may form additional voids by the mechanisms already discussed. The reaction sequence at the various interfaces (Fig. 1.87b) for the oxidation of iron (prior to the formation of Fe Oj) would be... 

JUNCTION-1,..., JUNCTION-15, PIPE-1,. PIPE-42, HYDROCARBON-SOURCE, SINK-1, SINK-2, HYDROGEN-SOURCE, NATURAL-GAS-SOURCE. CARBON-TETRACHLORIDE-SOURCE,... 

In the hydrogen-bonded lattice of ice, the individual water molecules cannot pack together as tightly as they would if there was no hydrogen bonding. Consequently, the density of ice is lower than that of water. Ice cubes float benzene cubes sink. 

Therefore, criteria in the selection of an electrode reaction for mass-transfer studies are (1) sufficient difference between the standard electrode potential of the reaction that serves as a source or sink for mass transport and that of the succeeding reaction (e.g., hydrogen evolution following copper deposition in acidified solution), and (2) a sufficiently low surface overpotential and rate of increase of surface overpotential with current density, so that, as the current is increased, the potential will not reach the level required by the succeeding electrode process (e.g., H2 evolution) before the development of the limiting-current plateau is complete. 

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