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CVD reactors can have one of several configurations. Each has particular advantages and disadvantages. Reactors that support wafers horizontally have difficulty controlling the deposition uniformity over all the exposed wafers. Reactors having vertical wafer support produce uniform deposition, but are mechanically complex. Barrel reactors are not suited for extended operation at temperatures greater than 1200°C. 

In practice, elimination of axial current flow requires relatively fine segmentation, eg, 1—2 cm, between electrodes, which means that a utihty-sized generator contains several hundred electrode pairs. Thus, one of the costs paid for the increased performance is the larger number of components and increased mechanical complexity compared to the two-terrninal Faraday generator. Another cost is incurred by the increased complexity of power collection, in that outputs from several hundred terminals at different potentials must be consoHdated into one set of terminals, either at an inverter or at the power grid. 

Rotary wheels (see Fig. 14-87 ) Liquid is fed to a rotating surface The velocity that determines drop Mechanical complexity of rotating... 

Scale-up depends on the mechanical complexity of the crystal-transport system and techniques for removing heat. Vertical oscillating spiral columns are likely limited to about 0.2 m in diameter, whereas horizontal columns of several meters are possible. Scale-up is limited by design of melter and/or crystal-washing section. Vertical or horizontal columns of several meters in diameter are possible. 

There are a variety of ways of accomplishing a particular unit operation. Alternative types of process equipment have different inherently safer characteristics such as inventory, operating conditions, operating techniques, mechanical complexity, and forgiveness (i.e., the process/unit operation is inclined to move itself toward a safe region, rather than unsafe). For example, to complete a reaction step, the designer could select a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR), a small tubular reactor, or a distillation tower to process the reaction. 

The diesel engine, being a reciprocating machine, is mechanically complex, and in arduous environments its wear rate can be high. Major overhauls on high-speed engines are usually stipulated at 15,000 running hours, which extends to 20,000 and 30,000 on medium- and low-speed machines, respectively. 

Flow limitations restrict application of the DFI interface for pSFC-MS coupling. pSFC-DFI-MS with electron-capture negative ionisation (ECNI) has been reported [421], The flow-rate of eluent associated with pSFC (either analytical scale - 4.6 mm i.d. - or microbore scale 1-2 mm, i.d.) renders this technique more compatible with other LC-MS interfaces, notably TSP and PB. There are few reports on workable pSFC-TSP-MS couplings that have solved real analytical problems. Two interfaces have been used for pSFC-EI-MS the moving-belt (MB) [422] and particle-beam (PB) interfaces [408]. pSFC-MB-MS suffers from mechanical complexity of the interface decomposition of thermally labile analytes problems with quantitative transfer of nonvolatile analytes and poor sensitivity (low ng range). The PB interface is mechanically simpler but requires complex optimisation and poor mass transfer to the ion source results in a limited sensitivity. Table 7.39 lists the main characteristics of pSFC-PB-MS. Jedrzejewski... 

Perhaps the most mechanically complex solution ever developed for uniting HPLC with mass spectrometry was the moving belt interface [54]. The heart of this system was a mechanically driven continuous belt (analogous to an escalator or moving walkway) to which the HPLC eluent was applied. The majority of the mobile phase was evaporated by a heat source (ideally hot enough to vaporize the solvents but not to... 

Compared with elution chromatography, the advantage of both the SMB and SCCR forms of simulated countercurrent operation is that each product is taken off as soon as it is separated. The disadvantages are mechanical complexity and the fact that the number of pure products readily obtainable from one column is limited to two at most. Elution chromatography allows many components to be separated on one column. If no components are taken off before reaching the column exit, however, any components that are much more easily separated than the key components occupy space in... 

Centrifuges can be very efficient when separating cells from culture media. Consequently, they can be used either in harvesting of mammalian cells [1,21-23] or, despite their mechanical complexity, as cell retention device in long-term perfusion systems (Table 3). 

Laboratory test results are not helpful in predicting surface ignition results in engines, because it is difficult to devise a laboratory test procedure which will reproduce sufficiently well the condition to which fuel is exposed in an engine without having the laboratory test device approach the mechanical complexity of the engine. 

A wide variety of source-to-target configurations is possible, and it depends upon the ingenuity of the designer to balance mechanical complexity with efficiency and with other parameters specified by the customer. 

Processes involving total-pressure reduction to remove the adsorbed species, called pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) or heatless adsorption, are mechanically complex, since they must include separate adsorption, depressurization, desorption, and repressurization steps. To accommodate a steady flow of feed and products, several beds - usually three or more in parallel -are used. A typical four-bed process flowsheet is shown in... 

It is less fruitful to use structural data to explain the relative rearrangement rates even for complexes which rearrange by the same mechanism. The most extensive series of constant mechanism complexes is of the M(dtc)3 type and structural results are available for many of the complexes. A comparison of AH for enantiomerization to a, 0 and 0 is made in Table 12. Although some of the AH values are within experimental error of each other, an overal relation exists. The higher AH values in general correspond to the less twisted (toward D3h) complexes, however, the magnitude of the differences in angular parameters is hardly sufficient to account... 

Linear amino polymers containing basic nitrogen atoms are critically reviewed with regard to their synthesis, protonation and complex formation in solution with metal ions. Cross linked resins having essentially the same structure as linear polymers, are also mentioned. As far as the proto-nation is concerned, special care has been given to thermodynamic aspects, and to the most probable protonation mechanism. Complexing abilities of these polymers have been evaluated through stability constants and spectroscopic parameters. Practical implications of the properties have been considered. 

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