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Even though there are so many advantages to using enzymes as substitutes for chemical catalysts, practical applications of enzyme catalysis are few and far between. This is largely due to their relatively poor stabilities and catalytic activities under the conditions that characterize industrial processes high temperatures, extremes of pH or non-aqueous solvents. Enzymes evolved for the survival benefit of an organism may not exhibit features essential for in vitro application (30). 

These stabilizing interactions are destroyed if an enzyme is exposed to conditions much harsher than its natural ones. Thrown into industrial processes where temperatures are too high or a mixture is too acidic or too alkaline, enzymes will unfold and immediately lose the shapes necessary for their catalytic activity the chain of amino acids has not necessarily broken, but the stabilizing interactions are lost and the unfolding molecule becomes a messy conglomeration of disordered, catalytically useless arrangements. Once this happens, many enzymes cannot be coaxed to refold into their catalytically active form. This sensitivity limits industrial use of enzymes to processes carried out under suitably mild conditions. 

The main reaction has a lower activation energy, compared to the secondary reactions (Table 9.3). Therefore, low temperature favors the desired reaction. Moreover, equipment corrosion increases at high temperatures. On the other hand, low temperature slows the settling of the acid from the alkylate. In industrial processes, the temperature is around 10 °C. The process designed in this chapter works at -5 °C. This lower temperature could be explained by the inaccuracies of the kinetic data. 

Uses of Oieochemicais Based on Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil. (a) Fatty Acids. The most common method for the production of fatty acids adopted by the oieochemicais industry is high-temperature and high-pressure fat splitting. The fatty acid mixture produced is separated into broad cuts or pure fatty acids by simple or fractional distillations. Tables 50 and 51 list examples of fatty acids derived from palm products. The exact specifications of the various fatty acids produced vary slightly depending on the exact raw materials and process used. The specifications could also change due to continuous upgrading of processes. 

In further experiments, tests should be performed in accordance with industrial conditions (high temperatures), Other studies could be conducted on the possible uses of the pyrolysis products, which were contaminated with heavy metals, on the thermochemical aspects of the wood waste pyrolysis (chemical reactions of the wood preservatives during the pyrolysis process). 

Another process, derived from alkaline electrolysis widely used in industry, is high-temperature electrolysis. The efficiency of this process is increased by minimising ohmic losses. The source of heat can be a high-temperature nuclear reactor, a solar concentrator or a geothermic source. 

In the field of enhanced oil recovery, high steam pressures are required as could be provided by gas-cooled reactors water-cooled reactors would need an additional steam compression step [25]. Characteristic parameters are given in Table 2-2 for various designs. For the example of the Japanese industries, process steam temperature range and energy consumption structure are presented in Tables 2-3 and 2-4. 

Polyimides were developed during the 1960s and early 1970s in response to the demands of the aerospace industry for high temperature performance polymers, as matrix materials for laminates and other composites. Most aromatic/heterocyclic polymer systems that have a small number of oxidisable C-H bonds per molecule exhibit excellent oxidative stability, but tend to be intractible and extremely difficult to process. In the case of polyimides, however, this limitation has been largely overcome. Some of the materials now in use for structural applications can withstand continuous exposures in air to temperatures above 300°C (approximately 600°F). 

Conductive Adhesives. Isotropically electrically conductive adhesives (ICAs) are widely used in the electronics industry when high-temperature soldering processes are unsuitable. Typical applications include silicon die attachment, component attachment in multi-chip modules (MCMs), surface mounted printed circuit board repair, and elec-tromagnetic/radio frequency (EMI/RFI) shielding. 

For the production of filters in chemical industry and electrodes for electrochemical processes. High-temperature solders for electronics, for example for fixing cathodes of LaBe to cores of Mo, W, Ta (composition of solder Cr3C2+ l o CaF2 or NaF) [810] 1952... 

Uses. Alkah metal and ammonium fluoroborates are used mainly for the high temperature fluxing action required by the metals processing industries (see Metal surface treatments Welding). The tendency toward BF dissociation at elevated temperatures inhibits oxidation in magnesium casting and aluminum alloy heat treatment. 

High process temperatures generally not achievable by other means are possible when induction heating of a graphite susceptor is combined with the use of low conductivity high temperature insulation such as flake carbon interposed between the coil and the susceptor. Temperatures of 3000°C are routine for both batch or continuous production. Processes include purification, graphitization, chemical vapor deposition, or carbon vapor deposition to produce components for the aircraft and defense industry. Figure 7 illustrates a furnace suitable for the production of aerospace brake components in a batch operation. 

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