Slurry extenders

Electromagnetic flow meters ate avadable with various liner and electrode materials. Liner and electrode selection is governed by the corrosion characteristics of the Hquid. Eor corrosive chemicals, fluoropolymer or ceramic liners and noble metal electrodes are commonly used polyurethane or mbber and stainless steel electrodes are often used for abrasive slurries. Some fluids tend to form an insulating coating on the electrodes introducing errors or loss of signal. To overcome this problem, specially shaped electrodes are avadable that extend into the flow stream and tend to self-clean. In another approach, the electrodes are periodically vibrated at ultrasonic frequencies. 

TiCl catalysts produced by the reduction of TiCl with Al(C2H 2d> subsequentiy treated first with an electron donor (diisoamyl ether), then with TiCl, are highly stereospecific and four to five times more active than d-TiCl (6). These catalysts were a significant advance over the earlier TiCl systems, because removal of atactic polymer was no longer required. They are often referred to as second-generation catalysts. The life of many older slurry process faciUties has been extended by using these catalysts to produce "clean" polymers with very low catalyst residues. 

The Hercules viscometer was originally designed for paper and paperboard coatings, but its use has been extended to paints, adhesives, mineral slurries, emulsions, and starch solutions. The iastmment, noted for being robust and rehable, is particularly well suited for quaUty control and product formulation. It is capable of measuting viscosity over a moderate range 1-10 mPa-s) up to high shear rates (115,000 ). A more recent model is the... 

With polymer flocculation of slurries, however, extended agitation after the addition of the polymer may be detrimental. The reagent should be added to the slurry under conditions which promote rapid... 

This was previously used as a herbicide, and attention has been directed to its degradation in storage areas or where it has been spilled. A strain of Clostridium bifermentans KMR-1 (that is protected by a U.S. patent) was unable to use dinoseb as carbon or energy source. In the presence of a starch extract, however, a low level of transformation was observed, and the products could subsequently be mineralized by aerobic bacteria (Hammill and Crawford 1996). These observations have been extended to the remediation of soil slurries from a contaminated site by adding phosphate and starch waste that achieved anaerobic conditions, and inoculation with a culture from a pilot-scale... 

An N-vinylpyrrolidone/acrylamide random copolymer (0.05% to 5.0% by weight) is used for cementing compositions [371, 1076]. Furthermore, a sulfonate-containing cement dispersant is necessary. The additive can be used in wells with a bottom-hole temperature of 80° to 300° F. The fluid loss additive mixture is especially effective at low temperatures, for example, below 100° F and in sodium silicate-extended slurries. 

Soil samples were collected along a traverse over the Honerat kimberlite and extended off the kimberlite approximately 75 m SE and 225 m NW from the pipe s centre (Fig. 1). Although it is common practice to collect samples from upper B-horizon soil (Levinson 1980 Bajc 1998 Mann et al. 2005) our samples were collected from C-horizon soil because GAGI samplers were placed at a depth of 60 cm (well below the B horizon). Within 8 hours of sampling, a portion of each soil sample was mixed with Milli-Q water (1 1) to create a slurry. The values of pH and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) were determined in each slurry. Ammonia acetate leach of the soil samples were performed at Acme Analytical Laboratories, Vancouver, where 20 ml of ammonium acetate was mixed with 1 g soil sample and elements were determined by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. The GAGI samplers installed at Unknown were placed in piezometers and submerged in water at a depth of approximately 1 m below ground surface. 

A similar loss of N (approximately 30% of that applied) has been observed following surface application of slurry containing 220 kg N ha-1 in cool moist weather in December when the soil was at field capacity. Although lower daily rates of NH3 loss were observed at this time, loss extended over a longer period following application. Observations in the field suggest that the more extended period of NH3 loss arose from restricted infiltration of slurry following the winter application. 

If the slurry is to be stored after treatment the residual, readily-fermentable substrate requires consideration. As treatment time is extended the total BOD5 falls to a minimum value of about 20% of its value in raw slurry after treatment at 15°C, or 15% after treatment at higher temperatures, equations 4 and 5. It may be postulated that the difference between the actual residual total BOD5 and its minimal value will provide a more accurate measure of the residual, readily-fermentable substrate and hence an... 

Further details of procedure are available (2, 4). Several experiments were performed using coal-bitumen slurries. A different procedure had to be developed to prepare samples from slurries. Fluidity of the slurry during heating was a problem. A paper at recent ACS Symposium (2) discusses this procedure. An extended discussion appears in a report in the public domain (10). 

Slurry particle agglomeration can take place in the slurry in which abrasive particles and colloids coalesce to form extended particles. 

The need for a reliable source of slurry during CMP stimulated the growth of a whole industry of bulk chemical distribution (BCD) systems. An extended discussion of BCD systems is beyond the scope of this work, but a few words are in order. Slurry distribution systems vary in sophistication from the simple laboratory system consisting of little more than a barrel of slurry and a pump to sophisticated delivery systems designed to supply slurry to tens of CMP tools in a high-volume production environment [56]. 

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