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Define relative saturation (humidity), molal saturation (humidity), absolute saturation (humidity), and humidity by formulas involving partial pressures of the gas components. 

For the quantitative determination of agglomerate growth as a function of moisture addition a relative saturation 5r was defined ... 

Define and calculate relative saturation, dew point, adiabatic-saturation temperature, and wet-bulb temperature of unsaturated mixtures. 

Relative saturation (relative humidity for the system air-water), expressed as a percentage, is defined as 100pA/PA, where PA is the vapor pressure at the dry-bulb temperature of the mixture. Therefore, if the relative saturation, temperature, and pressure of a gas-vapor mixture are specified, all of its thermodynamic properties can be calculated. 

Characterization of Porous Samples. Adsorption isotherms are a useful analytical method for characterizing porous samples. This measurement consists of monitoring the amount of a molecular species taken up by the sample as a function of the relative saturation of the species in the gas phase over the sample. This relative saturation is defined as p/p, where p is the partial pressure of the test species and p is its saturation vapor pressure at the temperature of the run. In a typical measurement, p/p is increased from zero to a value near 1 (onset of bulk condensation) and then decreased back down to zero. For many porous samples, hysteresis is observed between the adsorption and desorption branches of the isotherm obtained in this manner (14). 

To reach a lower moisture level, the polymer must be exposed to a dry air environment. Thus, relative humidity and dewpoint comprise the second fimdamental drying parameter. Relative humidity defines the amount of moisture a sample of air holds, compared to the amount it could hold at saturation. Dewpoint expresses how much moisture is in an air sample when it is at 100% relative humidity. 

In this section, several tools, which will serve as the basis for the scale-up method, are presented (1) a thermodynamic model to predict the outlet conditions of the spray drying, viz. relative saturation and temperature of the outlet gas (2) an atomization model to predict the droplet size and finally (3) a simplified model for droplet drying to define the general trends of particle size and morphology. 

As depicted in the simulations of Fig. 8.18a, several nozzles can produce droplets within approximately the same size range but at very different feed flow rates. By changing from nozzle A to nozzle B or C, droplet size can be maintained while the process throughput is increased. With the feed flow defined, then, as can be seen in Fig. 8.18b, the heat requirements can be determined by the thermodynamic modeling in such a way that outlet temperature is defined in order to have approximately similar levels of relative saturation of those optimized in previous stages. It is schematized in Fig. 8.18 three different scenarios that, according to the developed models, have similar conditions of droplet size and relative saturation. It is expected that the three scenarios result in the production of powders with equivalent quality. 

How can one evaluate / By drawing all the surfactant molecules contained within the thickness I below the surface, we ought to generate the surface density at equilibrium—a quantity that is relatively well defined for a saturated layer. Hence the condition... 

Relative saluration. Relatiiie saturation, also called r ladmJitmudiiyi expressed as a percentage is defined as lOOp // , where is the vapor pressure at the dry-bulb temperature of the mixture. For any vapor, the graphical representation of conditions of constant relative saturation can easily be constructed on a vapor-pressure-temperature chart, as in Fig. lAa, by dividing the ordinates of the vapor-pressure curve into appropriate intervals. Thus the curve for 50 percent relative saturation shows a vapor partial pressure equal to one-half the equilibrium vapor pressure at any temperature. A reference-substance plot, such as Fig, 7.2, could also be used for this. 

Thus K(T) is dimensionless. The adsorption process of a gas on a solid can occur only in a restricted pressure range limited by the saturated vapour pressure of the component i at the same temperature as the adsorption temperature. If the vapour pressure is above ps then adsorption is replaced by liquefaction (Fig. 7.3). The saturation of the adsorbent is established when p is equal to ps. We often use the notion of relative pressure defined by the ratio p/ps. Its value lies between 0 and 1. When the relative pressure is equal to one, the filling coefficient is also equal to one. 

The percent saturation should be distinguished from the percent relative saturation, which is defined as the partial pressure of the condensable component present divided by the partial pressure present at the saturation condition. Thus,... 

The saturation coverage during chemisorption on a clean transition-metal surface is controlled by the fonnation of a chemical bond at a specific site [5] and not necessarily by the area of the molecule. In addition, in this case, the heat of chemisorption of the first monolayer is substantially higher than for the second and subsequent layers where adsorption is via weaker van der Waals interactions. Chemisorption is often usefLil for measuring the area of a specific component of a multi-component surface, for example, the area of small metal particles adsorbed onto a high-surface-area support [6], but not for measuring the total area of the sample. Surface areas measured using this method are specific to the molecule that chemisorbs on the surface. Carbon monoxide titration is therefore often used to define the number of sites available on a supported metal catalyst. In order to measure the total surface area, adsorbates must be selected that interact relatively weakly with the substrate so that the area occupied by each adsorbent is dominated by intennolecular interactions and the area occupied by each molecule is approximately defined by van der Waals radii. This... 

The relative volatiHties Ot) are defined by Eq. (13-33), is the mini-mum-reflux ratio (L v + i/D)min,. nd q describes the thermal condition of the feed (e.g., 1.0 for a bubble-point feed and 0.0 for a saturated-vapor feed). The Xi p values are available from the given feed composition. The 0 is the common root for the top-section equations and the bottom-section equations developed by Underwood for a column at minimum reflux with separate zones of constant composition in each section. The common root value must fall between 06/, and Ot/, where hk and Ik stand for heavy key and light key respectively. The key components are the ones that the designer wants to separate. In the butane-pentane splitter problem used in Example 1, the light key is /1-C4 and the heavy key is i-C. ... 

Figure 28 shows the key features of the humidity chart. The chart consists of the following four parameters plotted as ordinates against temperature on the abscissas (1) Humidity H, as pounds of water per pound of dry air, for air of various relative humidities (2) Specific volume, as cubic feet of dry air per pound of dry air (3) Saturated volume in units of cubic feet of saturated mixture per pound of dry air and (4) latent heat of vaporization (r) in units of Btu per pound of water vaporized. The chart also shows plotted hiunid heat (s) as abscissa versus the humidity (H) as ordinates, and adiabatic humidification curves (i.e., humidity versus temperature). Figure 28 represents mixtures of dry air and water vapor, whereby the total pressure of the mixture is taken as normal barometric. Defining the actual pressure of the water vapor in the mixture as p (in units of mm of mercury), the pressure of the dry air is simply 760 - p. The molal ratio of water vapor to air is p/(760-p), and hence the mass ratio is ... 

FIGURE 15.11 Heterotropic allosteric effects A and I binding to R and T, respectively. The linked equilibria lead to changes in the relative amounts of R and T and, therefore, shifts in the substrate saturation curve. This behavior, depicted by the graph, defines an allosteric K system. The parameters of such a system are (1) S and A (or I) have different affinities for R and T and (2) A (or I) modifies the apparent for S by shifting the relative R versus T population. 

This is defined as the percentage ratio of the water vapour pressure in the atmosphere compared to that which would saturate the atmosphere at the same temperature. Alternatively, the difference in temperature between the ambient atmosphere and that to which it would have to be cooled before moisture condensed from it, is also used as a measure of moisture content. This difference in temperature is called the dew point depression. The actual temperature at which condensation takes place is known as the dew point. The relative humidity is then expressed as ... 

In practice, it is very often necessary to determine the potential of a test (indicator) electrode connected in a cell with a well defined second electrode. This reference electrode is usually a suitable electrode of the second kind, as described in Section 3.2.2. The potentials of these electrodes are tabulated, so that Eq. (3.1.66) can be used to determine the potential of the test electrode from the measured EMF. The standard hydrogen electrode is a hydrogen electrode saturated with gaseous hydrogen with a partial pressure equal to the standard pressure and immersed in a solution with unit hydrogen ion activity. Its potential is set equal to zero by convention. Because of the relative difficulty involved in preparing this electrode and various other complications (see Section 3.2.1), it is not used as a reference electrode in practice. 

Referring to Figure 8, temperature Tc is the chamber temperature and Ts is the surface temperature at the salt solution/vapor interface. The temperature of the chamber is well defined and is an experimental variable, whereas Ts must be higher than Tc due to condensation of vapor on the saturated solution surface. We can determine Ts by applying the Clausius-Clapeyron equation to the problem. Assume that the vapor pressures of the surface and chamber are equal (no pressure gradients), indicating that the temperature must be raised at the surface (to adjust the vapor pressure lowering of the saturated solution) to Pc (at Tc) = Ps (at Tc). However, there is a difference in relative humidity between the surface and the chamber, where RHC is the relative humidity in the chamber and RH0 is the relative humidity of the saturated salt solution, and we obtain... 

Mixing dry and water vapor-saturated air in defined proportions also can be used to generate constant relative humidity. Control of flow rates and the water vapor content of the dry and saturated air are essential [27,28],... 

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