Mass designs

Direct-contac t condensers involve the simultaneous transfer of heat and mass. Design procedures available for absorption, humidification, cooling towers, and the like may be apphed with some modifications. 

FIGURE 10.3 Schematic of typical drug-development timeline overlaid with points of entry and applications of metabonomics technology. Relative availability of bulk drug is indicated by mass designations (mg, g, kg quantities). (Reprinted from Robertson, D.G., Toxicol. Sci., 85, 809, 2005. With permission.)... 

The reactors employed in this type of process are vertical cylinders of higb-alloy steel, equipped with internal coils sunk in the catalyst mass, designed to remove the heat... 

Isotope dilution begins with the addition of a known amount of calibrated radioactive tracer solution R[ to a sample of mass nii in solution. By measuring the mass recovered mi and the radionuclide amount at the end of the procedure, Ri, one calculates the initial mass. Designating Si and as the specific activity (i.e., the ratio of radionuclide amount to the mass of the same element, at the beginning and end, respectively) and OTri as the mass associated with the radionuclide tracer initially gives the following relationships ... 

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If an azeotropic mixture is to be separated by distillation, then use of pressure change to alter the azeotropic composition should be considered before use of an extraneous mass-separating agent. Avoiding the use of extraneous materials often can prevent environmental problems later in the design. 

Walas, S. M., Chemical Process Equipment Selection and Design, Butterworth, Reading, Mass., 1988. 

For example a process flow scheme for crude oil stabilisation might contain details of equipment, lines, valves, controls and mass and heat balance information where appropriate. This would be the typical level of detail used in the project definition and preliminary design phase described in Section 12.0. 

A number of different types of experiment can be designed, in which disc and ring can either be swept to investigate the potential region at which the electron transfer reactions occur, or held at constant potential (under mass-transport control), depending on the infomiation sought. 

E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, Design Patterns, Addison Wesley, Reading, Mass 1997. 

Other isotopes are designated by mass numbers B (boron-10). 

Following the movement of airborne pollutants requires a natural or artificial tracer (a species specific to the source of the airborne pollutants) that can be experimentally measured at sites distant from the source. Limitations placed on the tracer, therefore, governed the design of the experimental procedure. These limitations included cost, the need to detect small quantities of the tracer, and the absence of the tracer from other natural sources. In addition, aerosols are emitted from high-temperature combustion sources that produce an abundance of very reactive species. The tracer, therefore, had to be both thermally and chemically stable. On the basis of these criteria, rare earth isotopes, such as those of Nd, were selected as tracers. The choice of tracer, in turn, dictated the analytical method (thermal ionization mass spectrometry, or TIMS) for measuring the isotopic abundances of... 

To examine a sample by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP/MS) or inductively coupled plasma atomic-emission spectroscopy (ICP/AES) the sample must be transported into the flame of a plasma torch. Once in the flame, sample molecules are literally ripped apart to form ions of their constituent elements. These fragmentation and ionization processes are described in Chapters 6 and 14. To introduce samples into the center of the (plasma) flame, they must be transported there as gases, as finely dispersed droplets of a solution, or as fine particulate matter. The various methods of sample introduction are described here in three parts — A, B, and C Chapters 15, 16, and 17 — to cover gases, solutions (liquids), and solids. Some types of sample inlets are multipurpose and can be used with gases and liquids or with liquids and solids, but others have been designed specifically for only one kind of analysis. However, the principles governing the operation of inlet systems fall into a small number of categories. This chapter discusses specifically substances that are normally liquids at ambient temperatures. This sort of inlet is the commonest in analytical work. 

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