Liquefier

Frasch process A process for obtaining sulphur by passing superheated water down a shaft to liquefy sulphur which is blown to the surface with compressed air. 

The word propellant is also used for the liquefied gas in a pressurized aerosol container. 

The procedure applies to stabilized, i.e., debutanized, crudes, but can be applied to any petroleum mixture with the exception of liquefied petroleum gas, very light naphtha, and those fractions having boiling points over 400°C. 

The COSTALD (Corresponding states liquid density) method was originally developed for calculating the densities of liquefied gases its use has become generally widespread. 

Liquefied gas fractions (propane, propylene, butanes, butenes) that will be able to provide feedstocks to units of MTBE, ETBE, alkylation, dimerization, polymerization after sweetening and/or selective hydrogenation. 

For the above reasons, gas Is typically economic to develop only if it can be used locally, i.e. if a local demand exists. The exception to this is where a sufficient quantity of gas exists to provide the economy of scale to make transportation of gas or liquefied gas attractive. As a guide, approximately 10 Tcf of recoverable gas would be required to justify building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant. Globally there are few such plants, but an example would be the LNG plant in Malaysia which liquefies gas and transports it by refrigerated tanker to Japan. The investment capital required for an LNG plant Is very large typically in the order of 10 billion. 

Sales gas, which is typically made up of methane (CH ) and small amounts of ethane (C2Hg), can be exported by refrigerated tanker rather than by pipeline and has to be compressed by a factor of 600 (and cooled to -150°C). This is then termed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). 

Carbon dioxide (COj) will solidify at the temperatures required to liquefy natural gas, and high quantities can make the gas unsuitable tor distribution. Removal is usually achieved in contacting towers. 

Market forces determine the demand for a product, and the demand will be used to forecast the sales of hydrocarbons. This will be one of the factors considered by some governments when setting the production targets for the oil company. For example, much of the gas produced in the South China Sea is liquefied and exported by tanker to Japan for industrial and domestic use the contract agreed with the Japanese purchaser will drive the production levels set by the National Oil Company. 

The existence of intennolecular interactions is apparent from elementary experimental observations. There must be attractive forces because otherwise condensed phases would not fomi, gases would not liquefy, and liquids would not solidify. There must be short-range repulsive interactions because otherwise solids and liquids could be compressed to much smaller volumes with ease. The kernel of these notions was fomuilated in the late eighteenth century, and Clausius made a clear statement along the lines of this paragraph as early as 1857 [1]. 

Ammonia is a colourless gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure with a characteristic pungent smell. It is easily liquefied either by cooling (b.p. 240 K) or under a pressure of 8-9 atmospheres at ordinary temperature. Some of its physical and many of its chemical properties are best understood in terms of its structure. Like the other group head elements, nitrogen has no d orbitals available for bond formation and it is limited to a maximum of four single bonds. Ammonia has a basic tetrahedral arrangement with a lone pair occupying one position ... 

The process is as follows ammonia gas (made by the Haber process) is liquefied under pressure, to freeze out any water, and the anhydrous gas is then passed together with dust-free air through a... 

Chlorine has a boiling point of 238 K and is a greenish-yellow diatomic gas at room temperature. It can be liquefied by cooling or by a pressure of a few atmospheres at room temperature. 

Students should distinguish carefully between the animal charcoal used for decolorisation, and the wood charcoal which is used for absorbing easily liquefiable gases, and which is therefore used in gas respirators and also, when chilled in liquid air, for obtaining high vacua. 

Deliquescence and efflorescence. A substance is said to deliquesce (Latin to become liquid) when it forms a solution or liquid phase upon standing in the air. The essential condition is that the vapour pressure of the saturated solution of the highest hydrate at the ordinary temperature should be less than the partial pressure of the aqueous vapour in the atmosphere. Water will be absorbed by the substance, which gradually liquefies to a saturated solution water vapour will continue to be absorbed by the latter until an unsaturated solution, having the same vapour pressure as the partial pressure of water vapour in the air, is formed. In order that the vapour pressure of the saturated solution may be sufficiently low, the substance must be extremely soluble in water, and it is only such substances (e.g., calcium chloride, zinc chloride and potassium hydroxide) that deliquesce. 

Hydrobromic acid. Method 1 (from bromine and sulphur dioxide). A mixture of 600 g. (or 188-6 ml.) of bromine, 250 ml. of water and 760 g. of crushed ice is placed in a 1 6 litre round-bottomed flask and a rapid stream of sulphur dioxide (from a siphon of the liquefied gas) is passed into the flask, care being taken that the outlet of the gas-delivery tube is below the surface of the bromine layer. The rate of flow of the gas is adjusted so that it is completely absorbed. It is advisable to cool the flask in ice and also to shake the contents from time to time. The reduction is complete when the mixture assumes a uniform yellowish-brown or yellow colour, which is unaffected by further introduction of sulphur dioxide excess of the latter gas should be avoided as it will be... 

For alcohols of b.p. below 150°, mix 0- 5 g. of 3-nitrophthalic anhydride (Section VII,19) and 0-5 ml. (0-4 g.) of the dry alcohol in a test-tube fitted with a short condenser, and heat under reflux for 10 minutes after the mixture liquefies. For alcohols boiling above 150°, use the same quantities of reactants, add 5 ml. of dry toluene, heat under reflux until all the anhydride has dissolved and then for 20 minutes more remove the toluene under reduced pressure (suction with water pump). The reaction product usually solidifies upon cooling, particularly upon rubbing with a glass rod and standing. If it does not crystallise, extract it with dilute sodium bicarbonate solution, wash the extract with ether, and acidify. Recrystallise from hot water, or from 30 to 40 per cent, ethanol or from toluene. It may be noted that the m.p. of 3-nitrophthalic acid is 218°. 

This acid mixture may be prepared (compare Section 11,49, 1) by placing 120 g. (37-5 ml.) of bromine and 130 g. of crushed ice in a 500 ml. flask, cooling the latter in ice, and passing sulphur dioxide (from a siphon of the liquefied gas) into the bromine layer at such a rate that the gas is completely absorb. The flask is shaken occasionally, and the flow of gas is stopped inunediately the red colour due to free bromine has disappeared the mixture will then have a yellow colour. The resulting acid mixture is equivalent to 260 g. of 48 per cent, hydrobromio acid to which 75 g. of concentrated sulphuric acid have been added it need not be dis. tilled for the preparation of n-butyl bromide. 

Mix 100 g. of ammonium chloride and 266 g. of paraformaldehyde in a 1-litre rovmd-bottomed flask fitted with a long reflux condenser containing a wide inner tube (ca. 2 cm. diameter) the last-named is to avoid clogging the condenser by paraformaldehyde which may sublime. Immerse the flask in an oil bath and gradually raise the temperature. The mixture at the bottom of the flask liquefies between 85° and 105° and a vigorous evolution of carbon dioxide commences at once remove the burner beneath the oil bath and if the reaction becomes too violent remove... 

Azlactone of a-benzoylaminocinnamic acid. Place a mi.xture of 27 g. (26 ml.) of redistilled benzaldehyde, 45 g. of Mppuric acid (Section IV,54), 77 g. (71-5) ml. of acetic anhydride and 20-5 g. of anhydrous sodium acetate in a 500 ml. conical flask and heat on an electric hot plate with constant shaking. As soon as the mixture has liquefied completely, transfer the flask to a water bath and heat for 2 hours. Then add 100 ml. of alcohol slowly to the contents of the flask, allow the mixture to stand overnight, filter the crystalline product with suction, wash with two 25 ml. portions of ice-cold alcohol and then wash with two 25 ml. portions of boiling water dry at 100°. The yield of almost pure azlactone, m.p. 165-166°, is 40 g. Recrystallisation from benzene raises the m.p. to 167-168°. 

In a 500 ml. bolt-head flask provided with a thermometer (reaching almost to the bottom) and a calcium chloride (or cotton wool) guard tube, place 100 g. of a-bromo-wo-valerj l bromide and 50 g. of dry, finely-divided urea. Start the reaction by warming the flask on a water bath the temperature soon rises to about 80°. Maintain this temperature for about 3 horns the mass will liquefy and then resolidify. Transfer the sticky reaction product to a large beaker containing saturated sodium bicarbonate solution, stir mechanically and add more saturated sodium bicarbonate solution in small quantities until effervescence ceases. Filter at the pump, suck as dry as possible and dry the crude bromural upon filter paper in the air. RecrystaUise the dry product from toluene. Alternatively, recrystaUise the moist product from hot water (ca. 700 ml.). The yield of pure brommal, m.p. 154-155°, is 28 g. 

Q-C, Natural gas, methane, ethane, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas... 

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