Mixing chamber volumes

The compounds were mixed in three steps The first two steps were done in an internal mixer with a mixing chamber volume of 390 mL. The mixing procedures employed in the first two steps are indicated in Table 29.2. The starting temperamre was 50°C and the cooling water was kept at a constant temperature of 50°C. The rotor speed was 100 rpm and the fill factor 66%. After every mixing step the compound was sheeted out on a 100-mL two-roll mill. The third mixing step was done on the same two-roll mill. The accelerators and sulfur were added during this step. 

Compounding LDPE with Ti02 agd carbon black (CB) was performed in a Brabender Plastograph for 10 min at 90 rpm under nitrogen. The mixing chamber volume was 60 ml and the oil bath temperature 160 C. The antioxidants (AO) were incorporated by dry blending of 25 kg LDPE with AO and then extrusion and granulation... 

The introduction of water, or air to a lesser extent, from the backside of flexible membranes reduces chamber volume and squeezes the cake yielding a further lowering of the moisture content. The filter press may be arranged as a mixed pack of flush and membrane plates, full flush or full membrane pack depending on the application. 

Continuous flow devices have undergone careful development, and mixing chambers are very efficient. Mixing is essentially complete in about 1 ms, and half-lives as short as 1 ms may be measured. An interesting advantage of the continuous flow method, less important now than earlier, is that the analytical method need not have a fast response, since the concentrations are at steady state. Of course, the slower the detection method, the greater the volumes of reactant solutions that will be consumed. In 1923 several liters of solution were required, but now reactions can be studied with 10-100 mL. 

In high pressure mixing devices each solvent is piunped separately in the proportions required by the gradient into a mixing chamber before being delivered to the column. Solvent compressibility and thermodynamic volume changes on mixing may Influence the accuracy of the composition delivered to the column. 

Where binary, ternary or quaternary gradient elution (p. 91) is required, a microprocessor controlled low-pressure gradient former is the most suitable (Figure 4.31(c)). The solvents from separate reservoirs are fed to a mixing chamber via a multiport valve, the operation of which is preprogrammed via the microprocessor, and the mixed solvent is then pumped to the column. For the best reproducibility of solvent gradients small volume pumps (< 100 gl) are essential. 

Fig. 7. Semi-Preparative Anion Exchange Purification of a 16-mer Oligodeoxynucleotide on a CIM DEAE Disk Monolithic Column. Conditions Column 0.34 ml CIM DEAE Disk (3X12 mm ID) Instrumentation Gradient HPLC system with extra low dead volume mixing chamber Sample 16mer oligodeoxynucleotide from the reaction mixture - bold line, standards of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15,16mer- thin line Injection Volume 20 pL Mobile Phase Buffer A 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.5 Buffer B Buffer A+ 1 M NaCl Gradient as shown in the Figure Flow Rate 4 ml/min Detection UV at 260 nm...

Continuous In situ monitoring at a fixed point on the observation tube with various flow rates. Alternatively, the mixing chamber is incorporated into the observation tube with early monitoring Tedious but leisurely analysis. Useful with sluggish monitoring probes. A 1-0.01 ms resolution. Large volumes of reactants used 05 ml). Not commercially available. 

Apparatus. The HPLC instrument used was a Water s Associates model 6000A pump for the solvent supply, a U6K septumless injector and a radial compression module with standard Radial Pak columns. Immediately after the column a low dead volume tee was inserted and another 6000A pump was used to deliver a solution of OPT for the post-column derivatization of histamine. Twenty feet of 9 thousandths (id) coiled stainless steel tubing was used as a mixing chamber and held at 60 C in a water bath. The reaction mixture then passed through a Water s 420 fluorescence detector which was connected to a recorder. The detector was equipped with a 340-nm excitation filter and a 440-nm emmission filter. 

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