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Vinyl acetate (ethenyl acetate) is produced in the vapor-phase reaction at 180—200°C of acetylene and acetic acid over a cadmium, 2inc, or mercury acetate catalyst. However, the palladium-cataly2ed reaction of ethylene and acetic acid has displaced most of the commercial acetylene-based units (see Acetylene-DERIVED chemicals Vinyl polymers). Current production is dependent on the use of low cost by-product acetylene from ethylene plants or from low cost hydrocarbon feeds. 

Internal reflux is induced by means of externally cooled liquid pumparounds. A pumparound simply removes hot liquid from the tower, pumps it through a heat exchanger and then introduces this cooled liquid into the tower a few trays above. Use of pumparounds allows a better distribution of tower loadings than if all the heat were removed from the VPS using an overhead condenser. Four to six trays between sidestreams and two pumparounds are normally specified for a lube VPS. The three liquid sidestream products to be used as lube plant feed stocks are steam stripped to remove lighter boiling components which condense with tire sidestreams. 

Rooted aquatic plants, such as wild rice (Zizania aquatica), can accumulate up to 67 mg Pb/kg dry weight when cultured in tanks contaminated with high concentrations of powdered lead (equivalent to 7400 kg Pb/ha) however, this level is not considered hazardous to waterfowl feeding on wild rice (Behan et al. 1979). Lead content in plants collected from heavily hunted areas near refuges did not differ from those collected in the protected areas (Behan et al. 1979), which suggests that lead bioavailability to rooted aquatics is substantially lower from shot than from powdered lead. 

The reaction is second order. In a commercial plant, feed containing 3 gmol.liter of reactant is charged at the rate of 5000 liters/min to a stirred tank with a volume of 10,000 liters and maintained at 50 C. Effluent from the stirred tank at concentration Cal flows to storage through a long pipeline with a volume of 500 liters, where the reaction continues at 50 C until the storage tank is reached. 

A wax filtration plant has six filters that operate in parallel, feeding from one common feed tank. Each filter can handle 1000 gpm when running, but the filters must be taken ofi-hne every six hours for a cleaning procedure that takes ten rninutes. The operating schedule calls for one filter to be cleaned every hour. 

When butadiene is produced in olefins plants or in refinery crackers, they come mixed with relatively large volumes of the other C4 family. Sometimes the other C4S need not be separated from each other, for example if they are going to be used for allcylation plant feed. In that case, the butadiene can be separated from the other C4S by extractive distillation. This process uses a solvent that will preferentially dissolve butadiene, ignoring the other components in the stream. 

Bugs from several families (notably oapsids and anthooorids) eat other plant-feeding bugs. Here an anthoeorid bug nymph attaeks a small aphid. 

Symptoms Adults and nymphs suck plant sap from leaves, flowers, buds, fruit, and seeds. Feeding punctures in... 

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