Purge limitations

Feed purification. Impurities that enter with the feed inevitably cause waste. If feed impurities undergo reaction, then this causes waste from the reactor, as already discussed. If the feed impurity does not undergo reaction, then it can be separated out from the process in a number of ways, as discussed in Sec. 4.1. The greatest source of waste occurs when we choose to use a purge. Impurity builds up in the recycle, and we would like it to build up to a high concentration to minimize waste of feed materials and product in the purge. However, two factors limit the extent to which the feed impurity can be allowed to build up ... 

For jet fuels, the elimination of free water using filters and coalescers by purging during storage, and the limit of 5 ppm dissolved water are sufficient to avoid incidents potentially attributable to water contamination formation of micro-crystals of ice at low temperature, increased risk of corrosion, growth of micro-organisms. 

Atomic absorption spectroscopy is an alternative to the colorimetric method. Arsine is stiU generated but is purged into a heated open-end tube furnace or an argon—hydrogen flame for atomi2ation of the arsenic and measurement. Arsenic can also be measured by direct sample injection into the graphite furnace. The detection limit with the air—acetylene flame is too high to be useful for most water analysis. 

Removal of metal chlorides from the bottoms of the Hquid-phase ethylene chlorination process has been studied (43). A detailed summary of production methods, emissions, emission controls, costs, and impacts of the control measures has been made (44). Residues from this process can also be recovered by evaporation, decomposition at high temperatures, and distillation (45). A review of the by-products produced in the different manufacturing processes has also been performed (46). Several processes have been developed to limit ethylene losses in the inerts purge from an oxychlorination reactor (47,48). 

For the same production capacity, the oxygen-based process requires fewer reactors, all of which operate in parallel and are exposed to reaction gas of the same composition. However, the use of purge reactors in series for an air-based process in conjunction with the associated energy recovery system increases the overall complexity of the unit. Given the same degree of automation, the operation of an oxygen-based unit is simpler and easier if the air-separation plant is outside the battery limits of the ethylene oxide process (97). 

The comparison made in Section 6.1 demonstrates the important effect the amount of purge has on the performance of the carbon canister in terms of limiting the amoimt of HC release. This effect is also shown in the data presented in Fig. 21. In this example, the vehicle has been subjected to the same test cycle sequence as before, but in this case two different levels of purging are examined. Also, a two liter canister is used on the vehicle for the testing at both purge levels, in order to see the effect of purge level on a single canister volume. 

Safety requires that only the most reliable experimentally determined flammable limit data be considered in purging calculations. This is included in Table 3. 

Figure 7.7 A ID ROESY pulse sequence with purged half-Gaussian excitation. (Reprinted from Mag. Reson. Chem. 29, H. Kessler et al., 527, copyright (1991), with permission from John Wiley and Sons Limited, Baffins Lane, Chichester, Sussex P019 lUD, England.)...

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