Pre-carbonization

Solution-mined brine is used for salt production, and is also the feed for the diaphragm electrolysis and soda-ash production. The cell-liquor derived from the electrolysis is also used for soda-ash production after pre-carbonation. 

Nanocrystalline cubic SiC (P-SiC) films were grown on silicon (100) substrate by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (Cat-CVD) at a temperature as low as 300°C with a pre-carbonization process. To enhance nucleation density of P-SiC, a buffer layer was made by carbonizing the substrate surface. From the comparison between both carbonized sample and non-carbonized sample, the precarbonization process has beneficial effects on the growth of nanociystalline p-SiC films. Mechanistic interpretations are given to explain the carbonization process and catalyzing deposition process. 

Pre-carbonization process was performed at a substrate temperature of 300 C with flow rates of 5 seem CH4 and 100 seem Hj at a high pressure of 1000 2000Pa. Here, the carbonization time was about 5 10 min. The deposition was carried out at the hydrogen flow rate of 200 seem, the ratio of CH4 and SiH4 flow rate of 1 1, the catalyst temperature of 2000°C, the substrate temperature of 300°C, and under a fixed reaction pressure of 100 Pa, respectively. 

Combined with the pre-carbonization process, nanocrystalline P-SiC films were deposited on (100) silicon by (Cat-CVD) at a low temperature (300°C). From the FTIR spectrum it is found that the carbonized sample is composed of P-SiC component which shows a blue shift, and the XRD patterns show that the grain-size of the carbonized sample is smaller. 

Ko TH, Day TC, The effect of pre-carbonization on the properties of pan-based carbon-fibers. 

Ko TH, Li CH, The influence of pre-carbonization on the properties of PAN-based carbon-fibers developed by 2-stage continuous carbonization and air oxidation, Polymer Composites, 16(3), 224-232, 1995. 

For both source materials, methods (a) and (b) produced almost identical results indicating that a pre-carbonization stage was not a necessary prerequisite. Method (c), involving pre-oxidation, gave the best results both in terms of adsorption capacity and overall yield. Results are summarized in Figure 5.39(a, b) which are plots of surface area (m g ) against... 

Mix 42 5 g. of acetone cyanohydrin (Section 111,75) and 75 g. of freshly powdered ammonium carbonate in a small beaker, warm the mixture on a water bath FUME CUPBOARD) and stir with a thermometer. Gentle action commences at 50° and continues during about 3 hours at 70-80°. To complete the reaction, raise the temperature to 90° and maintain it at this point until the mixture is quiescent (ca. 30 minutes). The colourless (or pale yellow) residue solidifies on coohng. Dissolve it in 60 ml. of hot water, digest with a little decolourising carbon, and filter rapidly through a pre-heated Buchner funnel. Evaporate the filtrate on a hot plate until crystals appear on the surface of the liquid, and then cool in ice. Filter off the white crystals with suction, drain well, and then wash twice with 4 ml. portions of ether this crop of crystals of dimethylhydantoin is almost pure and melts at 176°. Concentrate the mother liquor to the crj staUisation point, cool in ice, and collect the... 

Place an intimate mixture of 125 g. of powdered, anhydrous zinc chloride and 26-5 g. of acetophenonephenylhydrazone in a tall 500 ml. beaker in an oil bath at 170°. Stir the mixture vigorously by hand. After 3-4 minutes the mass becomes hquid and evolution of white fumes commences. Remove the beaker from the bath and stir the mixture for 5 minutes. Then stir in 100 g. of clean, white sand in order to prevent solidification to a hard mass. Digest the mixture for 12-16 hours on a water bath with 400 ml. of water and 12 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid in order to dissolve the zinc chloride. Filter off the sand and the crude 2-phenylindole, and boil the solids with 300 ml. of rectified spirit. Treat the hot mixture with a little decolourising carbon and filter through a pre-heated Buchner funnel wash the residue with 40 ml. of hot rectified spirit. Cool the combined filtrates to room temperature, filter off the 2-phenylindole and wash it three times with 10 ml. portions of cold alcohol. Dry in a vacuum desiccator over anhydrous calcium chloride. The yield of pure 2-phenylindole, m.p. 188-189°, is 16 g. 

Place 27 g. of o-phenylenediamine (Section IV,92) in a 250 ml. round-bottomed flask and add 17 -5 g. (16 ml.) of 90 per cent, formic acid (1). Heat the mixture on a water bath at 100° for 2 hours. Cool, add 10 per cent sodium hydroxide solution slowly, with constant rotation of the flask, until the mixture is just alkaline to litmus. Filter off the crude benzimidazole at the pump, wash with ice-cold water, drain well and wash again with 25 ml. of cold water. Dissolve the crude product in 400 ml. of boiling water, add 2 g. of decolourising carbon, and digest for 16 minutes. Filter rapidly at the pump through a pre heated Buchner funnel and flask. Cool the filtrate to about 10°, filter off the benzimidazole, wash with 25 ml. of cold water, and dry at 100°. The yield of pure benzimidazole, m.p. 171-172°, is 26 g. 

The zeroth-order rates of nitration depend on a process, the heterolysis of nitric acid, which, whatever its details, must generate ions from neutral molecules. Such a process will be accelerated by an increase in the polarity of the medium such as would be produced by an increase in the concentration of nitric acid. In the case of nitration in carbon tetrachloride, where the concentration of nitric acid used was very much smaller than in the other solvents (table 3.1), the zeroth-order rate of nitration depended on the concentrationof nitric acid approximately to the fifth power. It is argued therefore that five molecules of nitric acid are associated with a pre-equilibrium step or are present in the transition state. Since nitric acid is evidently not much associated in carbon tetrachloride a scheme for nitronium ion formation might be as follows ... 

Higher alkanes having unbranched carbon chains are like butane most stable m then-all anti conformations The energy difference between gauche and anti conformations is similar to that of butane and appreciable quantities of the gauche conformation are pres ent m liquid alkanes at 25°C In depicting the conformations of higher alkanes it is often more helpful to look at them from the side rather than end on as m a Newman projec tion Viewed from this perspective the most stable conformations of pentane and hexane... 

As crowding at the carbon that bears the leaving group decreases the rate of nude ophilic attack by the Lewis base increases A low level of steric hindrance to approach of the nucleophile is one of the special circumstances that permit substitution to pre dominate and primary alkyl halides react with alkoxide bases by an 8 2 mechanism m preference to E2... 

Reaction of Grignard reagents with es ters (Section 14 10) Tertiary alcohols in which two of the substituents on the hy droxyl carbon are the same may be pre pared by the reaction of an ester with two equivalents of a Grignard reagent... 

A similar reaction in which ammonia and carbon dioxide are heated under pres sure IS the basis of the industrial synthesis of urea Here the reactants first combine yielding a salt called ammonium carbamate... 

Phlonzm is obtained from the root bark of apple pear cherry and plum trees It has the molecular formula C21H24O10 and yields a compound A and D glucose on hydrolysis in the pres ence of emulsin When phlorizin is treated with excess methyl iodide in the presence of potassium carbonate and then subjected to acid catalyzed hydrolysis a compound B is obtained Deduce the structure of phlorizin from this information... 

Examples are provided by the work of Carman and Raal with CF2CI2 on silica powder, of Zwietering" with nitrogen on silica spherules and of Kiselev" with hexane on carbon black and more recently of Gregg and Langford with nitrogen on alumina spherules compacted at a series of pressures. In all cases, a well defined Type II isotherm obtained with the loose powder became an equally well defined Type IV isotherm with the compact moreover both branches of the hysteresis loop were situated (drove the isotherm for the uncompacted powder, but the pre-hysteresis region was scarcely affected (cf. Fig. 3.4). The results of all these and similar... 

Adsorption of nitrogen at 77 K on a microptorous carbon after pre-adsorption of n-nonane (cf. Fig. 4.13)... 

Fig. 4.13 The pre-adsorption method (a) adsorption isotherms of nitrogen at 77 K on a sample of Mogul I carbon black charged with different amounts x of pre-adsorbed nonane. Values ofx (mg g (A) 63 (B)48 (C) 29 (D) 16 (E) 0. (See Table 4.5.) (Some points at low pressures omitted for the sake of clarity.)...

A major difficulty in testing the validity of predictions from the DR equation is that independent estimates of the relevant parameters—the total micropore volume and the pore size distribution—are so often lacking. However, Marsh and Rand compared the extrapolated value for from DR plots of CO2 on a series of activated carbons, with the micropore volume estimated by the pre-adsorption of nonane. They found that except in one case, the value from the DR plot was below, often much below, the nonane figure (Table 4.9). 

As remarked on p. 214, the validity of the nonane pre-adsorption method when adsorptives other than nitrogen are employed for determination of the isotherms, has been examined by Tayyab. Two organic adsorptives, /i-hexane and carbon tetrachloride, which could be used at or near room temperature, were selected and the adsorbents were the ammonium salts of... 

Fig. 4J1 Adsorption isotherms on ammonium phosphomolybdate powder. (1), (2), before pre-adsorption of nonane (3), (4) after preadsorption of nonane. (1), (4), nitrogen (77 K) (2), (3), carbon tetrachloride (298 K). Adsorption is expressed in mm (liquid).

Although the use of simple diluents and adulterants almost certainly predates recorded history, the use of fillers to modify the properties of a composition can be traced as far back as eady Roman times, when artisans used ground marble in lime plaster, frescoes, and po22olanic mortar. The use of fillers in paper and paper coatings made its appearance in the mid-nineteenth century. Functional fillers, which introduce new properties into a composition rather than modify pre-existing properties, were commercially developed eady in the twentieth century when Goodrich added carbon black to mbber and Baekeland formulated phenol— formaldehyde plastics with wood dour. 

Pre-liming. Lime slurry, 0.25% lime on juice (0.250 g of CaO/100 g juice), is added to bring the pH of the mixture into the alkaline range. Insoluble calcium salts are precipitated as finely dispersed coUoids. Calcium carbonate in the form of recycled first carbonation sludge is added to provide coUoid absorption and stabilization. Temperature may be cool (50°C) or hot (80°C) depending on the temperature of the next step, or occasionally on the type of diffusion equipment. Retention time is 15 to 30 min. 

Process development on fluidized-bed pyrolysis was also carried out by the ConsoHdation Coal Co., culminating in operation of a 32 t/d pilot plant (35). The CONSOL pyrolysis process incorporated a novel stirred carbonizer as the pyrolysis reactor, which made operation of the system feasible even using strongly agglomerating eastern U.S. biturninous coals. This allowed the process to bypass the normal pre-oxidation step that is often used with caking coals, and resulted in a nearly 50% increase in tar yield. Use of a sweep gas to rapidly remove volatiles from the pyrolysis reactor gave overall tar yields of nearly 25% for a coal that had Eischer assay tar yields of only 15%. 

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