Light saturation

Polymerization in a hydrocarbon slurry (usually a light-saturated hydrocarbon) was the first commercial polymerization process to utilize Phillips and Ziegler catalysts. These processes enjoy high popularity because of theit versatihty. 

Rhodospirillum rubrum SI Chemostat with glutamate limitation, D=0.013 h l, lactate, light saturation 20 0.26 65 Zurrer, Bachofen, 1979... 

Rhodobacter capsulatus B10 Chemostat wih ammonium limitation, lactate, continuous argon flow (100 ml/min), light saturation 88 0.115 97 Tsygankov et al., 1998... 

Herron HA, Mauzerall D (1972) The development of photosynthesis in a greening mutant of Chlorella and an analysis of the light saturation curve. Plant physiology 50 141-148... 

Bufalini, J. J., and M. C. Dodge, Ozone-Forming Potential of Light Saturated Hydrocarbons, Enciron. Sci. Technoi., 17, 308-311 (1983). 

An important advantage of the CIELAB system is that the resulting color difference can be split up into component contributions, namely lightness, saturation, and hue, corresponding to the arrangement of the color space ... 

A difference A E v of less than 1 is said to be imperceptible (Poynton 2003). Differences between 1 and 4 may or may not be perceptible. This depends on the region of the color space where the two colors are from. If the difference is larger than 4, it is likely that the difference can be perceived. Correlates of lightness, saturation, chroma, and hue are given by... 

Another advantage of IET (and MET) is the matrix formulation of the theory making it applicable to reactions of almost arbitrary complexity. A subject of special attention here will be photochemical reactions composed from sequential geminate and bimolecular stages and accompanied by spin conversion, thermal decay, and light saturation of the excited reactants. The quantum yields of fluorescence as well as the yields of charged and excited... 

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The liquid-phase oxidation (LPO) of light saturated hydrocarbons yields acetic acid and a spectrum of coproduct acids, ketones, and esters. Although propane and pentanes have been used, n-butane is the most common feedstock because it can ideally yield two moles of acetic acid. The catalytic LPO process consumes more than 500 million lb of n-butane to produce about 500 million lb of acetic acid, 70 million lb of methyl ethyl ketone, and smaller amounts of vinyl acetate and formic acid. The process employs a liquid-phase, high-pressure (850 psi), 160-180°C oxidation, using acetic acid as a diluent and a cobalt or manganese acetate catalyst. 

Description The process consists of a reactor section, continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) section and product-recovery section. Stacked radial-flow reactors (1) facilitate catalyst transfer to and from the CCR catalyst regeneration section (2). A charge heater and interheaters (3) achieve optimum conversion and selectivity for the endothermic reaction. Reactor effluent is separated into liquid and vapor products (4). The liquid product is sent to a stripper column (5) to remove light saturates from the C6 aromatic product. Vapor from the separator is compressed and sent to a gas recovery unit (6). The compressed vapor is then separated into a 95% pure hydrogen coproduct, a fuel-gas stream containing light byproducts and a recycled stream of unconverted LPG. 

The fiwdstocks used for pyrolysis vary widely and range from light saturated hydrocarbons such as ethane, propane, and even ethane/propane blends, to heavier petroleum cuts such as petrochemical naphtha and light and heavy gas oils. In this respect, the situation is clearly in favor of fight hydrocarbons in the United States, a country that is rich in natural gases containing methane as well as ethane and propane, and vHiich still mainly uses the latter two to manufacture ethylene, hi Europe and Japan, by contrast, petroleum cuts traditionally supply the steam cracker feedstocl (Table Zl). 

The reactor consists of a vertical tower with superimposed catalyst beds. The feedstock is mixed with the recycle of unconverted 3-04 and with heavy products. The light saturated compounds serve as diluents and avoid excess conversions that would cause a drop in selectivity. On the other hand, the recycling of heavy components exerts the opposite effect... 

In Equation 8.27, Vmax and, to some extent, Kcch depend on the photosynthetic photon flux (PPF), temperature, and nutrient status. For instance, Vmax is zero in the dark because photosynthesis ceases then, and it is directly proportional to PPF up to about 50 jimol m-2 s-1. If we continually increase the PPF, Fmax can reach an upper limit, its value for light saturation. This usually occurs at about 600 junol m-2 s-1 for most C3 plants, whereas photosynthesis for C4 plants is generally not light saturated even at full sunlight, 2000 pmol m-2 s-1 (see Chapter 6, Section 6.3D for comments on C3 and C4 plants also see Fig. 8-20 for responses of leaves of C3 plants and a C4 plant to PPF). Photosynthesis is maximal at certain temperatures, often from 30°C to 40° C. We note that Vmax increases as the leaf temperature is raised to the optimum and then decreases with a further increase in temperature. 

Fmax at light saturation and at the optimal temperature for photosynthesis varies with plant species but is usually from 2 to 10 mol m-3 s-1. We can also estimate Vmax from measurements of the maximum rates of CO2 fixation by isolated chloroplasts. These maximum rates—which are sustained for short periods and are for optimal conditions—can be 100 mmol of CO2 fixed (kg chlorophyll)-1 s-1 [360 pmol (mg chlorophyll)-1 hour-1 in another common unit], which is approximately 3 mol m-3 s-1 (1 kg chlorophyll is contained in about 0.035 m3 of chloroplasts in vivo). In vitro, the key enzyme for CO2 fixation, ribulose-l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, can have rates equivalent to 200 mmol (kg chlorophyll)-1 s-1. The estimates of Vmax using isolated chloroplasts or enzymes usually are somewhat lower than its values determined for a leaf Measurements using leaves generally indicate that KqOz is 5 to 20 mmol m-3. For instance, Kcch can be 9 mmol m-3 at 25°C with a Q10 of 1.8 (Woodrow and Berry, 1988 Q10 is defined in Chapter 3, Section 3.3B). 

Figure 8-19. Idealized hyperbolic relationship between the photosynthetic photon flux incident on the upper leaf surface and the net C02 uptake rate for a C3 plant. The intercept on the ordinate (y-axis) indicates the net COz flux by respiration in the dark (-1 pmol m-2 s 1), the intercept on the dashed line indicates the light compensation point (a PPF of 15 pmol m 2s l), the essentially linear initial slope (37co2 ppf) indicates the quantum yield (Eq. 4.16) for photosynthesis [(5 - 0 pmol m 2 s l)/(115 -15 pmol m-2 s l) = 0.05 mol C02/mol PPF], and the maximum Jco2reached asymptotically at high PPF indicates the light-saturated net C02 uptake rate (about 12 (xrnol m-2 s l often designated AmaK or Amax). Here the quantum yield is based on incident photons, but more appropriately it should be based on absorbed photons.

It has been demonstrated that phosphorylation of LHC causes the detachment of a fraction of it from PS II and its lateral migration in the membrane to become incorporated into PS I [134-136]. It has indeed been shown that the fluorescence quenching caused by LHC phosphorylation is qualitatively different from spillover, because only LHC is quenched, not PS II [136], and Fq as well as are quenched [136,137]. The phosphorylation of LHC and/or of other thylakoid polypeptides may have more complex effects, and their interactions are far from being understood. It has been reported that protein phosphorylation enhances PS I-de-pendent cyclic photophosphorylation even under light saturation conditions [133], which could not be explained merely on the basis of PS I antenna enlargement. 

B. R. Forsberg (unpublished data) provides further evidence for nutrient limitation (Table 14.2). Light saturated rates of photosynthesis (Pmax) were found to vary as a linear function of either total nitrogen (TN) or total phosphorus (TN) concentration. TP was the main source of variation in Pmax in black- and Clearwater lakes at both high and low water. This indicates a consistent pattern of P-limitation in these systems, which was linked to the high TN to TP ratios. In whitewater lakes, Pmax varied as a function of TP at high water and TN at low water. This reflects a shift from P-limitation to N-limitation and was accompanied by a decrease in average TN to TP ratios. 

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