Pressurized ultrasound

There are several ways to induce reactions in solids. The application of heat, electromagnetic radiation, pressure, ultrasound or some other form of energy may induce a transformation in a solid. For centuries, it has been a common practice to subject solid materials to heat in order to determine their thermal stability, to study their physical properties, or to convert one material into another. One important commercial reaction, that producing lime,... 

Methods to prepare crude extracts have evolved from simple solvent extractions to more sophisticated systems utilising pressure, ultrasound, supercritical fluids, heat and microwave energy. Developments in methods to generate crude extracts have been discussed recently in a detailed review.29 Many modern commercial extraction systems offer benefits of faster extraction and reduced solvent consumption.30... 

An entirely different type of rate enhancement relies on rendering the activation entropy (AS ) less negative. In this sense, advantage can be taken of using high pressure, ultrasound, aggregation effects in water, adsorption on dry Si02, or clays and zeolites (Section 4.1.4.2). 

High pressure Ultrasound Alkenyl chlorides and others Remarkable rate enhancement [162, 215] [216]... 

A variety of other reaction conditions promote the Diels-Alder reaction/ including high pressure, ultrasound, electron transfer, polar... 

The term active mixer or active microimxef refers to a microfluidic device in which species mixing is enhanced by the application of some form of external energy disturbance. Typically, this disturbance is generated either by moving components within the micromixer itself, e.g. magnetically-actuated stirrers, or by the application of an external force field, e. g. pressure, ultrasound, acoustic, electrohydrodynamic, electrokinetic, dielectrophoretic, magneto-hydrodynamic, thermal, and so forth [1]. 

Another research performed by Briones-Labarca et al. (2015) studied the use of papaya seeds as a source of bioactive compounds by using different types of assisted extractions such as high hydrostatic pressure, ultrasound and conventional extractions. The results showed that high pressme was more effective than ultrasound and conventional extractions in extracting bioactive compoimds and it had a shorter extraction time. 

The previous subsection described single-experiment perturbations by J-jumps or P-jumps. By contrast, sound and ultrasound may be used to induce small periodic perturbations of an equilibrium system that are equivalent to periodic pressure and temperature changes. A temperature amplitude 0.002 K and a pressure amplitude 5 P ss 30 mbar are typical in experiments with high-frequency ultrasound. Fignre B2.5.4 illustrates the situation for different rates of chemical relaxation with the angular frequency of the sound wave... 

Sonochemistry is strongly affected by a variety of external variables, including acoustic frequency, acoustic intensity, bulk temperature, static pressure, ambient gas, and solvent (47). These are the important parameters which need consideration in the effective appHcation of ultrasound to chemical reactions. The origin of these influences is easily understood in terms of the hot-spot mechanism of sonochemistry. 

The phenomenon of acoustic cavitation results in an enormous concentration of energy. If one considers the energy density in an acoustic field that produces cavitation and that in the coUapsed cavitation bubble, there is an amplification factor of over eleven orders of magnitude. The enormous local temperatures and pressures so created result in phenomena such as sonochemistry and sonoluminescence and provide a unique means for fundamental studies of chemistry and physics under extreme conditions. A diverse set of apphcations of ultrasound to enhancing chemical reactivity has been explored, with important apphcations in mixed-phase synthesis, materials chemistry, and biomedical uses. 

The attenuation of ultrasound (acoustic spectroscopy) or high frequency electrical current (dielectric spectroscopy) as it passes through a suspension is different for weU-dispersed individual particles than for floes of those particles because the floes adsorb energy by breakup and reformation as pressure or electrical waves josde them. The degree of attenuation varies with frequency in a manner related to floe breakup and reformation rate constants, which depend on the strength of the interparticle attraction, size, and density (inertia) of the particles, and viscosity of the Hquid. 

Motion of fluids in which local velocities and pressures fluctuate irregularly, in a random manner. Predictive maintenance technique that uses principles similar to those of vibration analysis to monitor the noise generated by plant machinery or systems to determine their actual operating condition. Ultrasonics is used to monitor the higher frequencies (i.e., ultrasound) that range between 20,000 Hertz and 100 kiloHertz. 

Two types of ultrasonic systems are available that can be used for predictive maintenance structural and airborne. Both provide fast, accurate diagnosis of abnormal operation and leaks. Airborne ultrasonic detectors can be used in either a scanning or contact mode. As scanners, they are most often used to detect gas pressure leaks. Because these instruments are sensitive only to ultrasound, they are not limited to specific gases as are most other gas leak detectors. In addition, they are often used to locate various forms of vacuum leaks. 

The role of cavitation in ultrasound degradation has been confirmed repeatably in most experiments where cavitation was prevented, either by applying an external hydrostatic pressure, by degassing the solution, by reducing the sound intensity or the temperature, polymer chain scission was also largely suppressed [117]. 

The use of ultrasonic (US) radiation (typical range 20 to 850 kHz) to accelerate Diels-Alder reactions is undergoing continuous expansion. There is a parallelism between the ultrasonic and high pressure-assisted reactions. Ultrasonic radiations induce cavitation, that is, the formation and the collapse of microbubbles inside the liquid phase which is accompanied by the local generation of high temperature and high pressure [29]. Snyder and coworkers [30] published the first ultrasound-assisted Diels-Alder reactions that involved the cycloadditions of o-quinone 37 with appropriate dienes 38 to synthesize abietanoid diterpenes A-C (Scheme 4.7) isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine, Dan Shen, prepared from the roots of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge. 

The thermal instability of 37 reduces its applicability with poorly reactive dienes such as vinylcyclohexene and its derivatives 38, unless high pressure (HP) is employed. Ultrasound is not only effective in promoting the cycloaddition of 37 with 38, but sometimes also improves the regioselectivity. Some data are illustrated in Table 4.8 and compared with cycloadditions in refluxing benzene and under high pressure. The reactions of 37 with reactive dienes such as cyclopentadiene and l-(trimethylsiloxy)-1,3-butadiene give a good yield of type D adducts under mild conditions, while with less reactive dienes, such as isoprene and butadiene, poor results are obtained. 

Discuss and compare the mechanisms of energy transfer using high-pressure steam, microwaves and ultrasound. Discuss the role and limitations of solvents for carrying out a chemical reaction using these energy sources. 

General trends are focused on reduced-solvent extractions or adsorption-based methods — enviromnentaUy friendly solvents for both solid and liquid samples. In recent decades, advanced techniques like supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), ° pressurized liquid extraction (PLE)," microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), ultrasound-assisted extraction, countercurrent continued extraction (www.niroinc.com), solid... 

Peres, V.P. et al.. Comparison of soxhlet, ultrasound-assisted and pressurized liquid extraction of terpenes, fatty acids and vitamin E from Piper gaudichaudianum Kunth, J. Chromatogr. A, 1105, 115, 2006. 

In order to increase the overall extraction efficiency during SFE sonication has been applied [352]. Ultrasound creates intense sinusoidal variations in density and pressure, which improve solute mass transfer. Development of an SFE method is a time-consuming process. For new methods, analysts should refer the results to a traditional sample preparation method such as Soxhlet or LLE. 

Abstract Acoustic cavitation is the formation and collapse of bubbles in liquid irradiated by intense ultrasound. The speed of the bubble collapse sometimes reaches the sound velocity in the liquid. Accordingly, the bubble collapse becomes a quasi-adiabatic process. The temperature and pressure inside a bubble increase to thousands of Kelvin and thousands of bars, respectively. As a result, water vapor and oxygen, if present, are dissociated inside a bubble and oxidants such as OH, O, and H2O2 are produced, which is called sonochemical reactions. The pulsation of active bubbles is intrinsically nonlinear. In the present review, fundamentals of acoustic cavitation, sonochemistry, and acoustic fields in sonochemical reactors have been discussed. 

An acoustic wave (sound) is a propagation of pressure oscillation in medium such as air or liquid water with the sound velocity [1]. Ultrasound is inaudible sound and its frequency of pressure oscillation is above 20 kHz (20,000 oscillations per second) [2]. For convenience, an acoustic wave above 10 kHz in frequency is sometimes called an ultrasonic wave. 

When the instantaneous local pressure becomes negative in liquid irradiated by ultrasound, bubbles are generated because gas such as air dissolved in the liquid can no longer be dissolved in the liquid under negative pressure, which is called acoustic cavitation [5, 6]. For a static condition, vapor bubbles are generated when the static pressure is lower than the saturated vapor pressure, which is called boiling. In many cases of acoustic cavitation, the instantaneous local pressure should be negative because the duration of low pressure is short. 

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