Ideal Profile Analysis

The concepts, as well as the corresponding step-by-step methodology for the analysis of the IPM data (called the Ideal Profile Analysis (IPA)), will be presented. Finally, the advantages/inconveniences of the IPM and its practical use compared to other methods (such as the Preference Mapping or JAR scale) will be discussed. 

Worch, T. (2012) The Ideal Profile Analysis From the validation to the statistical analysis of Ideal Profile data, PhD documenfi retrieved from www.opp.nl/uk/. 

These four steps are the core of the IPA, the analysis of Ideal Profile data (Worch,... 

Resource and environmental profile analysis (REPA), the forerunner to the current practice of life cycle assessment, focused on quantifying the energy requirements and emissions of a product or process but not the impacts on human health or the ecosystem. Ideally, according to the originators of REPA, the analysis would be linked to a risk assessment of emissions related to a process or product [91,92]. It is worth noting, with respect to the theme of this book, that REPA originated in 1969. Environmental life cycle considerations did not formally enter into product development or modification before that time. 

Knowledge of these types of reaetors is important beeause some industrial reaetors approaeh the idealized types or may be simulated by a number of ideal reaetors. In this ehapter, we will review the above reaetors and their applieations in the ehemieal proeess industries. Additionally, multiphase reaetors sueh as the fixed and fluidized beds are reviewed. In Chapter 5, the numerieal method of analysis will be used to model the eoneentration-time profiles of various reaetions in a bateh reaetor, and provide sizing of the bateh, semi-bateh, eontinuous flow stirred tank, and plug flow reaetors for both isothermal and adiabatie eonditions. 

It would appear that measurement of the integrated absorption coefficient should furnish an ideal method of quantitative analysis. In practice, however, the absolute measurement of the absorption coefficients of atomic spectral lines is extremely difficult. The natural line width of an atomic spectral line is about 10 5 nm, but owing to the influence of Doppler and pressure effects, the line is broadened to about 0.002 nm at flame temperatures of2000-3000 K. To measure the absorption coefficient of a line thus broadened would require a spectrometer with a resolving power of 500000. This difficulty was overcome by Walsh,41 who used a source of sharp emission lines with a much smaller half width than the absorption line, and the radiation frequency of which is centred on the absorption frequency. In this way, the absorption coefficient at the centre of the line, Kmax, may be measured. If the profile of the absorption line is assumed to be due only to Doppler broadening, then there is a relationship between Kmax and N0. Thus the only requirement of the spectrometer is that it shall be capable of isolating the required resonance line from all other lines emitted by the source. 

Above theoretical analysis of adsorption effects on electric conductivity and VAC profiles in polycrystalline semiconductor adsorbent with accounting for its barrier disorder indicate that the value and kinetics of change in o(t) and yS(t) during adsorption of both acceptors and donors sharply differ from those predicted by theory both for the case of ideal monocrystal and for polycrystal considered from the standpoint of bicrystal model. 

If we were to choose the ideal method for the analysis of any component of seawater, it would naturally be an in situ method. Where such a method is possible, the problems of sampling and sample handling are eliminated and in many cases we can obtain continuous profiles rather than limited number of discrete samples. In the absence of an in situ method, the next most acceptable alternative is analysis on board ship. A real-time analysis not only permits us to choose our next sampling station on the basis of the results of the last station, it also avoids the problem of the storage of samples until the return to a shore laboratory. 

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