Solvent adsorption methylene chloride

In liquid-solid adsorption chromatography (LSC) the column packing also serves as the stationary phase. In Tswett s original work the stationary phase was finely divided CaCOa, but modern columns employ porous 3-10-)J,m particles of silica or alumina. Since the stationary phase is polar, the mobile phase is usually a nonpolar or moderately polar solvent. Typical mobile phases include hexane, isooctane, and methylene chloride. The usual order of elution, from shorter to longer retention times, is... 

The solvent used to form the dope is evaporated during the extrusion process and must be recovered. This is usually done by adsorption on activated carbon or condensation by refrigeration. For final purification, the solvent is distilled. Approximately 3 kg of acetone, over 99%, is recovered per kg of acetate yam produced. Recovery of solvent from triacetate extmsion is similar, but ca 4 kg of methylene chloride solvent is needed per kg of triacetate yam extmded. 

Reverse osmosis is essentially the same process as ultrafiltration with low salt rejection. Kopfler and co-workers (12) used reverse osmosis in combination with solvent extraction and XAD adsorption. Solvent extraction with pentane and methylene chloride was used to remove organics from the reverse-osmosis concentrate (i.e., for desalting), and XAD was used for adsorption of the intractables from the extracted... 

The NIOSH methods, in general, are based on adsorption of compounds in the air over a suitable adsorbent, desorption of the adsorbed analytes into a desorbing solvent, and, subsequently, their determination by GC using a suitable detector. A known volume of air is drawn through a cartridge containing coconut shell charcoal. The adsorbed compounds are desorbed into carbon disulfide, propanol, benzene, toluene, hexane, or methylene chloride. An aliquot of the solvent extract is then injected onto the GC column. FID is the most commonly used detector. Other detectors, such as ECD, ELCD, or PID have been used, however, in the method development of certain compounds. NIOSH method numbers and the analytical techniques are presented in Table 2.9.3. 

Ref. (2)]. While a dependence of e" on solvent dipole moment or dielectric constant has been refuted for numerous experimental adsorption systems [c.g.. Ref. (7)], the belief that dielectric constant defines both solvent strength and sample adsorption energy continues to find support by many workers. The dependence of e values on solvent dielectric constant is tested in Fig. 8-13 for adsorption on alumina. There is a tendency for solvent strength to follow solvent dielectric constant, but the exceptions to this relationship are both numerous and large (e.g., dioxane, e = 0.56 and dielectric constant = 2.2, versus methylene chloride, e = 0.42 and dielectric constant = 9.1). Consequently, the dielectric constant of the solvent is quite limited in its ability to predict solvent strength. The data of Fig. 8-13 do not support any fundamental relationship between solvent strength and dielectric constant. 

Some of the more important industries that produce solvent-contained air streams are printing dry cleaning and the manufacture of paints, polymers, adhesives, celluloid, rubber (e.g., rubber-coated fabrics), rayon, and gunpowder and extraction processes. The main solvents recovered by activated carbon adsorption are benzene, toluene, xylene, alcohols, acetone, petrol, ether, carbon disulfide, halocarbons (e.g., chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene, methylene chloride, chlorobenzene, etc.). The major production facilities and the solvents recovered are listed in Table 5.3. In many cases the concentration of the organic solvent in waste gases is of the order of 1 to 2%. 

Steam is hot ( 120°C or 250°C or somewhat higher). Adsorption of any solvent molecule (trichloroethylene, water, methylene chloride, etc.) is not favored at higher temperatures. 

Within each of the two types of operation, a cost evaluation was completed of the adsorption unit fed separately with six different solvents (toluene, n-propyl bromide, perchloroethylene, methylene chloride, trichloroethylene, andCFC-113). 

Measured adsorption data for four cleaning solvents (methylene chloride, trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene, and CFC-113) are plotted in Figure A2-l . ... 

In many solvent recovery systems, adsorption represents only one step in a complex series of chemical engineering operations. The design of a eomplete system for recovering methylene chloride and methanol from air emitted from a dryer in a resin processing plant has been described by Drew (1975). The overall solvent recovery system includes a water scrubber to remove resins and cool the air to 100°-110°F a standard 2-bed carbon adsorber unit designed for 95% solvent removal efficiency a condenser and decanter to handle the vapors that are stripped from the carbon by steam an extraction column in which water is used to remove the water soluble methanol from the methylene chloride phase a stripping column to remove dissolved methanol and methylene chloride from the waste water and a drying column to remove water from the recovered methylene chloride. These items of equipment and operations are representative of those required for complete solvent recovery systems however, each system must, of course, be tailored to the profierties of the specific solvent involved. 

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