Liquid Adsorption Acid Separations

The great leap forward for chromatography was the seminal work of Martin and Synge (7) who in 1941 replaced countercurrent liquid-liquid extraction by partition chromatography for the analysis of amino acids from wool. Martin also realized that the mobile phase could be a gas rather than a liquid, and with James first developed (8) gas chromatography (GC) in 1951, following the gas-phase adsorption-chromatographic separations of Phillips (9). 

The most commonly employed crystalline materials for liquid adsorptive separations are zeolite-based structured materials. Depending on the specific components and their structural framework, crystalline materials can be zeoUtes (silica, alumina), silicalite (silica) or AlPO-based molecular sieves (alumina, phosphoms oxide). Faujasites (X, Y) and other zeolites (A, ZSM-5, beta, mordenite, etc.) are the most popular materials. This is due to their narrow pore size distribution and the ability to tune or adjust their physicochemical properties, particularly their acidic-basic properties, by the ion exchange of cations, changing the Si02/Al203 ratio and varying the water content. These techniques are described and discussed in Chapter 2. By adjusting the properties almost an infinite number of zeolite materials and desorbent combinations can be studied. 

Ba-Modenite s selectivity to MX is higher than OX, but the opposite is true for BaY. This reversal in selectivity is a result of differences in adsorbent framework characteristics mordenite has higher acid strength compared to Y zeolite. Adsorption and desorption rates of xylenes are expected to be faster in BaY compared to Ba-Mordenite because Mordenite is a one-dimensional channel system while Y zeoUte is a three-dimensional channel. With the reason stated, a three-dimensional channel ZeoUte is the preferred mass separating agent of choice compared to one-or two-dimensional channels for the liquid adsorption separation. 

Citric acid separation - [ADSORPTION,LIQUID SEPARATION] (Vol 1)... 

Separation, Characterization and Analysis of the Distillate Fractions. Results from the analyses of the <200° C coal-liquid distillates (after removal of trace quantities of acids and bases) are summarized in Table IV. Results from the dual silica-gel/alu-mina-gel adsorption chromatography separations of the 200° to 325° C, 325° to 425° C, and 425° to 540° C coal-liquid distillates are summarized in Table V. Data for the acid and base extracts of the polyaromatic-polar adsorption fractions are also included in Table V. Summary data on analysis of the saturate fractions are listed in Table VI. Data in Table VI show a trend toward higher percentages of zero- and one-ring saturates in lower-rank coals. 

For membrane processes involving liquids the mass transport mechanisms can be more involved. This is because the nature of liquid mixtures currently separated by membranes is also significantly more complex they include emulsions, suspensions of solid particles, proteins, and microorganisms, and multi-component solutions of polymers, salts, acids or bases. The interactions between the species present in such liquid mixtures and the membrane materials could include not only adsorption phenomena but also electric, electrostatic, polarization, and Donnan effects. When an aqueous solution/suspension phase is treated by a MF or UF process it is generally accepted, for example, that convection and particle sieving phenomena are coupled with one or more of the phenomena noted previously. In nanofiltration processes, which typically utilize microporous membranes, the interactions with the membrane surfaces are more prevalent, and the importance of electrostatic and other effects is more significant. The conventional models utilized until now to describe liquid phase filtration are based on irreversible thermodynamics good reviews about such models have been reported in the technical literature [1.1, 1.3, 1.4]. 

The problem of amino acid separation was the starting point for the development of PC. Separation was considered first to be based on partition of the substances between water, bound to cellulose by imbition causing swelling, and a mobile phase, immiscible with water (e. g., phenol saturated with water). This attitude has changed somewhat since it was found that single-phase solvents could also be used with these, the less mobile liquid involved in the cellulose swelling can be regarded as a type of phase, separate from the more mobile solvent-hquid. A partial transition to Freundhch adsorption on the cellulose surface may even occur sometimes. 

Low-molecular-weight products, generally secondary metabolites such as alcohols, carboxyhc and an iino acids, antibiotics, and vitamins, can be recovered using many of the standard operations such as liquid-hquid extraction, adsorption and ion-exchange, described elsewhere in this handbook. Proteins require special attention, however, as they are sufficiently more complex, their function depending on the integrity of a delicate three-dimensional tertiaiy structure that can be disrupted if the protein is not handled correctly. For this reason, this section focuses primarily on protein separations. Cell separations, as a necessary part of the downstrean i processing sequence, are also covered. 

Trathnigg, B., Rappel, C., Rami, R., Gorbunov, A. (2002b). Liquid exclusion-adsorption chromatography a new technique for isocratic separation of non-ionic surfactants V. Two-dimensional separation of fatty acid polyglycol ethers. J. Chromatogr. A 953(1-2), 89-99. 

Procedures for determining fatty acids in sediments involved liquid-liquid extraction, liquid-solid adsorption chromatography followed by gas liquid chromatographic analysis [10-12], Liquid extractions have been performed with methanol-chloroform [13], methylene chloride [14] and benzene-methanol [15, 16]. Typical liquid-solid adsorbents are silicic acid. Standard gas chromatographic separations for complex mixtures employ non-polar columns packed with OV-1, OV-17, OV-101, SE-30, or glass capillary columns containing similar phases. 

Chromatographic fixed-bed reactors consists of a single chromatographic column containing a solid phase on which adsorption and reaction take place. Normally a pulse of reactant is injected into the reactor and, while traveling through the reactor, simultaneous conversion and separation take place (Fig. 3). Since an extensive overview of the models and applications of this type of reactor was presented by Sardin et al. [ 132], only a few recent results will be discussed here. Most of the practical applications have been based on gas-liquid systems, which are not applicable for the enzyme reactions, but a few reactions were also reported in the liquid phase. One of these studies, performed by Mazzotti and co-workers [ 141 ], analyzed the esterification of acetic acid into ethyl acetate according to the reaction ... 

Liquid/liquid partition chromatography was explored by Willstatter from 1913. The process was extensively developed by Martin and Synge (ca. 1941-1948) who partitioned amino acid derivatives between chloroform and water using precipitated silica as support for the aqueous phase. The preparations of silica were again very variable and it was difficult to prevent adsorption which interfered with the expected behavior of the aminoacids. At first methyl orange was added to the water phase to visualize the amino acids the separation of the acids then caused a red band to move down the columns. The quantitative reaction with ninhydrin was introduced by Moore and Stein in 1948 for both the detection and estimation of the amino acids. Consid-... 

As promised, this chapter outhnes numerous liquid-phase non-aromatic adsorption processes that enable one to economically separate a commercially desirable component from a mixture when the separation is impossible (given the closeness of their relative volatilities) by conventional means such as distillation. We review process that can separate a wide range of normal paraffins from a mixture of their corresponding feedstocks. In addition to this, we also review how to separate mono branched paraffins and olefins from similar feedstocks. Finally we review liquid-phase adsorption processes to isolate desired carbohydrates, fatty acids and citric acid from their feed source and for each separation we reveal insight on the corresponding operating conditions, process configuration and adsorbent necessary to achieve the separation. 

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