Retention cations

The initial use of cationic starch was for strength and retention. Cationic starch was found useful in improving machine run abiUty and efficiency, lowering furnish... 

Ion-Exchange Equilibrium. Retention differences among cations with an anion exchanger, or among anions with a cation exchanger, are governed by the physical properties of the solvated ions. The stationary phase will show these preferences ... 

To accomplish any separation of two cations (or two anions), one of these ions must be taken up by the resin in distinct preference to the other. This preference is expressed by the separation factor (or relative retention), using K+ and Na+ as the example ... 

The protonated form of poly(vinyl amine) (PVAm—HCl) has two advantages over many cationic polymers high cationic charge densities are possible and the pendent primary amines have high reactivity. It has been appHed in water treatment, paper making, and textiles (qv). The protonated forms modified with low molecular weight aldehydes are usehil as fines and filler retention agents and are in use with recycled fibers. As with all new products, unexpected appHcations, such as in clear antiperspirants, have been found. It is usehil in many metal complexation appHcations (49). 

Starch is a polysaccharide found in many plant species. Com and potatoes are two common sources of industrial starch. The composition of starch varies somewhat in terms of the amount of branching of the polymer chains (11). Its principal use as a flocculant is in the Bayer process for extracting aluminum from bauxite ore. The digestion of bauxite in sodium hydroxide solution produces a suspension of finely divided iron minerals and siUcates, called red mud, in a highly alkaline Hquor. Starch is used to settle the red mud so that relatively pure alumina can be produced from the clarified Hquor. It has been largely replaced by acryHc acid and acrylamide-based (11,12) polymers, although a number of plants stiH add some starch in addition to synthetic polymers to reduce the level of residual suspended soHds in the Hquor. Starch [9005-25-8] can be modified with various reagents to produce semisynthetic polymers. The principal one of these is cationic starch, which is used as a retention aid in paper production as a component of a dual system (13,14) or a microparticle system (15). 

Salts, eg, alum or calcium chloride [10043-52-4] and cationic polyacrylamides are effective retention aids in bleached and unbleached kraft pulp. 

Rosin sizing usually involves the addition of dilute aqueous solutions or dispersions of rosin soap size and alum to a pulp slurry (44—46). Although beater addition of either coreactant is permissable, addition of both before final pulp refining is unwise because subsequently exposed ceUulose surfaces may not be properly sized. The size and alum should be added sufficiendy eady to provide uniform distribution in the slurry, and adequate time for the formation and retention of aluminum resinates, commonly referred to as size precipitate. Free rosin emulsion sizes, however, do not react to a significant degree with alum in the pulp slurry, and addition of a cationic starch or resin is recommended to maximize retention of size to fiber. Subsequent reaction with aluminum occurs principally in the machine drier sections (47). 

Like the natural gums, starches need to be cooked in water to form dispersions for addition to the papermaking system. Various techniques have been developed for cooking starches rapidly (see Starch). In general, anionic starches are used with alum, which aids in starch retention. The cationic and usually the amphoteric starches are self-retaining. 

Fig. 12. Salt retention by coUoidal particles. The curved dashed and soHd lines represent the surface of a negatively charged siUca particle. Around this there is a layer of counter sodium cations outside there is a layer in which sulfate anions (Q) are more concentrated than in the bulk solution.

I Jnqiiaternized DMAEMA copolymers afford resins that are mildly cationic and less hydroscopic. They provide more moisture-resistant fixatives (146). further refinements have been accompHshed by adding a third comonomer such as A/-vinylcaprolactam (V Cl). In this case, replacement of VP with VCl results in a terpolymer (VP/VCl/DMAEMA) with even greater high humidity moisture resistance and cud retention. 

Antimonic acid has been used as an ion-exchange material for a number of cations in acidic solution. Most interesting is the selective retention of Na" in 12 Af HQ, the retention being 99.9% (24). At lower acidities other cations are retained, even K". Many oxidation and polymerization catalysts are listed as containing Sb203. 

In such a process, the water molecule fonned in the elimination step is captured primarily fiom the fixmt side, leading to net retention of configuration for the alcohol. For the ester, the extent of retention and inversion is more balanced, although it vari among individual systems. It is clear om die data in Table 5.18 that the two pairs of stereoisomeric amines do not form the same intermediate, even though a simple mechanistic interpretation would sugg that both would fmm the 2-decalyl cation. The coUap of the ions to product is pvidoitly so rapid that diere is not time for relaxation of the initially formed intermediates to reach a common stnicture. 

In the pulp and paper industry, anionic and cationic acrylamide polymers are used as chemical additives or processing aids. The positive effect is achieved due to a fuller retention of the filler (basically kaoline) in the paper pulp, so that the structure of the paper sheet surface layer improves. Copolymers of acrylamide with vi-nylamine not only attach better qualities to the surface layer of.paper, they also add to the tensile properties of paper in the wet state. Paper reinforcement with anionic polymers is due to the formation of complexes between the polymer additive and ions of Cr and Cu incorporated in the paper pulp. The direct effect of acrylamide polymers on strength increases and improved surface properties of paper sheets is accompanied by a fuller extraction of metallic ions (iron and cobalt, in addition to those mentioned above), which improves effluent water quality. 

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