Potassium removal

Potassium removal is required because the presence of potassium during electrolysis reportedly promotes the formation of the a-Mn02 phase which is nonbattery active. Neutralization is continued to a pH of approximately 4.5, which results in the precipitation of additional trace elements and, along with the ore gangue, can be removed by filtration. Pinal purification of the electrolyte Hquor by the addition of sulfide salts results in the precipitation of all nonmanganese transition metals. 

Patients with acute hyperkalemia usually require other therapies to manage hyperkalemia until dialysis can be initiated. Patients who present with cardiac abnormalities caused by hyperkalemia should receive calcium gluconate or chloride (1 g intravenously) to reverse the cardiac effects. Temporary measures can be employed to shift extracellular potassium into the intracellular compartment to stabilize cellular membrane effects of excessive serum potassium levels. Such measures include the use of regular insulin (5 to 10 units intravenously) and dextrose (5% to 50% intravenously), or nebulized albuterol (10 to 20 mg). Sodium bicarbonate should not be used to shift extracellular potassium intracellularly in patients with CKD unless severe metabolic acidosis (pH less than 7.2) is present. These measures will decrease serum potassium levels within 30 to 60 minutes after treatment, but potassium must still be removed from the body. Shifting potassium to the intracellular compartment, however, decreases potassium removal by dialysis. Often, multiple dialysis sessions are required to remove potassium that is redistributed from the intracellular space back into the serum. 

Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate (Kayexalate) [Potassium Removing Resin] Uses Rx of T K Action NaVK" ion-exchange resin Dose Adults. 15-60 g PO or 30-60 g PR q6h based on serum Peds. 1 g/kg/dose PO or PR q6h based on serum (given w/ agent, eg, sorbitol, to promote movement through the bowel) Caution [C, M] Contra T Na" Disp Powder, susp SE T Na", -i Na retention, GI upset, fecal impaction Interactions T Risk of systemic alkalosis W/ Ca- or Mg-containing antacids EMS Monitor ECG for h5 pokalemia (flattened T waves) OD Not systemically absorbed but may cause h5 pokalemia and the associated effects (muscle weakness, confusion) and bowel obstruction s5rmpto-matic and supportive... 

Following reports of colonic necrosis, the Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau of Japan has revised the product information for enemas of polystyrene sulfonate cation exchange resin suspension in sorbitol solution for potassium removal (31). Although a causal relation has not been established definitively, the Bureau has decided that sorbitol solution should not be used for enemas of sodium polystyrene sulfonate cation exchange resins. 

Sodium reduction Taste masking Sustained release Diagnostic Tablet disintegration pH control Potassium removal Skin treatment Toxin removal... 

Sodium polystyrene sulfonate is a potassium-removing resin, which exchanges sodium ions for potassium in large intestine. Sodium polystyrene sulfonate, a cation exchange resin removing potassium (15 g p.o. daily), is used in hyperkalemia. 

Tributh, H., Vonboguslawski, E., Vonlieres, A. Steffens, D., Mengel. K., 1987. Effect of potassium removal by crops on transformation of illitic clay-minerals. Soil Sci. 143, 404-409. 

In a related study, a biomass material, bone char was investigated by Ma et al. (2008) for its feasibility as a cost-effective biosorbent for F removal from drinking water. The amorphous biosorbent powder, which is composed mainly of calcium phosphate and a small amount of carbon, was prepared by heating bone-biomass. The adsorption capacity of the hone char was shown to be better than that of activated aluminum and tourmaline (i.e., crystal horon sUicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, hthium, or potassium). Removal of F was attributed to the processes of ion binding and ion exchange between bone char and F". The authors developed static and kinetic models which provided a satisfactory prediction of F concentration after adsorption. Experiments with fixed-bed columns... 

In a natural ecosystem an equilibrium is established in the cycling of nutrients between soil and plants but cultivations and removal of crops and/or animal products induce a deficit in the system. Failure to correct this deficit will diminish the fertility of the soil. In Table 1, the amounts of phosphorus and potassium removed from a mixed farm in the south of England (Bridget s Experimental Husbandry Farm) are presented. 

Table 1. Amounts of phosphorus and potassium removed in crops.

Some authors (see Section Cl) have suggested that potassium removed by plant roots and returned to the soil surface may reverse the weathering sequence and induce the formation of mica from vermiculite. 

Desulfurize the flue gas. A whole range of processes have been developed to remove SO, from flue gases, such as injection of limestone into the furnace, absorption into wet limestone after the furnace, absorption into aqueous potassium sulfite after the furnace, and many others.However, the byproducts from many of these desulfurization processes cause major disposal problems. 

Benfield process Removal of carbon dioxide from fuel gases, such as those obtained by gasifying coal in the Lurgi process, by countercurrent scrubbing of the gases by hot potassium carbonate solution. 

Catacarb process An extraction process used to remove carbon dioxide from process gases by scrubbing the hot gases with potassium carbonate solution containing additives which increase the hydration rate of the gas in the solution. The Vetrocoke process is similar. See Benfield process. 

The examples in the preceding section, of the flotation of lead and copper ores by xanthates, was one in which chemical forces predominated in the adsorption of the collector. Flotation processes have been applied to a number of other minerals that are either ionic in type, such as potassium chloride, or are insoluble oxides such as quartz and iron oxide, or ink pigments [needed to be removed in waste paper processing [92]]. In the case of quartz, surfactants such as alkyl amines are used, and the situation is complicated by micelle formation (see next section), which can also occur in the adsorbed layer [93, 94]. 

In one process the carbon dioxide is removed using potassium carbonate solution, potassium hydrogencarbonate being produced ... 

Cobalt compounds have been in use for centuries, notably as pigments ( cobalt blue ) in glass and porcelain (a double silicate of cobalt and potassium) the metal itself has been produced on an industrial scale only during the twentieth century. Cobalt is relatively uncommon but widely distributed it occurs biologically in vitamin B12 (a complex of cobalt(III) in which the cobalt is bonded octahedrally to nitrogen atoms and the carbon atom of a CN group). In its ores, it is usually in combination with sulphur or arsenic, and other metals, notably copper and silver, are often present. Extraction is carried out by a process essentially similar to that used for iron, but is complicate because of the need to remove arsenic and other metals. 

Peroxides can usually be completely removed from a sample of ether by thorough shaking with aqueous potassium permanganate solution. 

To ensure the presence of a slight excels of nitrous acid, potassium iodide-starch paper is sometimes used as an external indicator, a drop of the solution being removed from time to time during the addition of the sodium nitrite, and then dropped on to the paper. When an excess of nitrous acid is present, iodine is liberated, and gives the familiar... 

Prepare a mixture of 30 ml, of aniline, 8 g. of o-chloro-benzoic acid, 8 g. of anhydrous potassium carbonate and 0 4 g. of copper oxide in a 500 ml. round-bottomed flask fitted with an air-condenser, and then boil the mixture under reflux for 1 5 hours the mixture tends to foam during the earlier part of the heating owing to the evolution of carbon dioxide, and hence the large flask is used. When the heating has been completed, fit the flask with a steam-distillation head, and stcam-distil the crude product until all the excess of aniline has been removed. The residual solution now contains the potassium. V-phenylanthrani-late add ca. 2 g. of animal charcoal to this solution, boil for about 5 minutes, and filter hot. Add dilute hydrochloric acid (1 1 by volume) to the filtrate until no further precipitation occurs, and then cool in ice-water with stirring. Filter otT the. V-phcnylanthranilic acid at the pump, wash with water, drain and dry. Yield, 9-9 5 g. I he acid may be recrystallised from aqueous ethanol, or methylated spirit, with addition of charcoal if necessary, and is obtained as colourless crystals, m.p. 185-186°. 

Sodium and potassium hydroxides. The use of these efficient reagents is generally confined to the drying of amines (soda lime, barium oxide and quicklime may also be employed) potassium hydroxide is somewhat superior to the sodium compound. Much of the water may be first removed by shaking with a concentrated solution of the alkali hydroxide. They react with many organic compounds (e.g., acids, phenols, esters and amides) in the presence of water, and are also soluble in certain organic liquids so that their use as desiccants is very limited... 

This type of extraction depends upon the use of a reagent which reacts chemically with the compound to be extracted, and is generally employed either to remove small amounts of impurities in an organic compound or to separate the components of a mixture. Examples of such reagents include dilute (5 per cent.) aqueous sodium or potassium hydroxide solution, 5 or 10 per cent, sodium carbonate solution, saturated sodium bicarbonate solution (ca. 5 per cent.), dilute hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, and concentrated sulphuric acid. 

Absolute diethyl ether. The chief impurities in commercial ether (sp. gr. 0- 720) are water, ethyl alcohol, and, in samples which have been exposed to the air and light for some time, ethyl peroxide. The presence of peroxides may be detected either by the liberation of iodine (brown colouration or blue colouration with starch solution) when a small sample is shaken with an equal volume of 2 per cent, potassium iodide solution and a few drops of dilute hydrochloric acid, or by carrying out the perchromio acid test of inorganic analysis with potassium dichromate solution acidified with dilute sulphuric acid. The peroxides may be removed by shaking with a concentrated solution of a ferrous salt, say, 6-10 g. of ferrous salt (s 10-20 ml. of the prepared concentrated solution) to 1 litre of ether. The concentrated solution of ferrous salt is prepared either from 60 g. of crystallised ferrous sulphate, 6 ml. of concentrated sulphuric acid and 110 ml. of water or from 100 g. of crystallised ferrous chloride, 42 ml. of concentrated hydiochloric acid and 85 ml. of water. Peroxides may also be removed by shaking with an aqueous solution of sodium sulphite (for the removal with stannous chloride, see Section VI,12). 

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