Solvent extraction results

Solvent extraction results are presented typically in the form of diagrams. This is schematically illustrated in Fig. 4. la for three hypothetical substances. A, B, and C. The distribution ratio is investigated as a function of the concentration of some reactant Z, which may be pH, concentration of extractant in the organic phase (e.g., an organic acid HA, [HA]o,j), the extractant anion concentration in the aqueous phase (e.g., [CT]), salt concentration in the aqueous phase, etc. The... 

A large discrepancy between the two concentration techniques was found for the copper results. The average difference was 72 27 ngl-1. Bruland and Frank analysed the Chelex column effluent by the solvent extraction technique, and found 63 and 135ngl-1 as the copper content for the samples at 25 m and 2500 m, respectively. These values are almost equal to the difference between the Chelex and solvent extraction results. Therefore, they concluded that about 60% of the copper in seawater (unfiltered and unacidified) is not removed by the Chelex technique. As Riley et al. suggested, copper in seawater is not liberated by the Chelex resin because of association with colloids and fine particulates [62]. In order to avoid this error, acidification and heating of seawater is necessary prior to the Chelex treatment. According to the results of Bruland and Franks, acidification and storage followed by solvent extraction appears to be superior to the Chelex resin concentration for the quantitative determination of copper in seawater [15]. Similar problems have been pointed out by Eisner and Mark, Jr. [63] and Florence and Batley [64]. 

The extraction process used depends on the plant. For instance, lemon or lime, orange, grape fruit, and bergamot are usually expressed because the oils are present in the peels and the oils are released when the peel is ruptured. Others, that include lavender, clary sage, chamomile, and rose geranium, are usually distilled. Some flowers, like rose, for example, are distilled and solvent extracted, resulting in either a rose absolute or rose Otto. 

The invention concerns the use of supercritical solvents to extract the cocoa butter from cocoa nibs (comminuted cocoa beans) and cocoa mass (fmely crushed beans). The description of other processes in the prior art section of the patent points out that organic solvent extraction results in the presence of residual solvents. Additionally, some of the newer pressing methods, via expellors, for example, introduce waste bean contaminants into the butter which must be removed with economic and taste penalties. 

An inconvenience for solvent extraction methods is that large volume of solvents and non-solvents are needed to extract and to precipitate the polymer. However, PHB recovery by solvent extraction resulted in a pure white very crystalline powder of high molecular weight. 

Separation Processes. The product of ore digestion contains the rare earths in the same ratio as that in which they were originally present in the ore, with few exceptions, because of the similarity in chemical properties. The various processes for separating individual rare earth from naturally occurring rare-earth mixtures essentially utilize small differences in acidity resulting from the decrease in ionic radius from lanthanum to lutetium. The acidity differences influence the solubiUties of salts, the hydrolysis of cations, and the formation of complex species so as to allow separation by fractional crystallization, fractional precipitation, ion exchange, and solvent extraction. In addition, the existence of tetravalent and divalent species for cerium and europium, respectively, is useful because the chemical behavior of these ions is markedly different from that of the trivalent species. 

Brown coals yield, on solvent extraction, 10—15% of a material that contains 60—90% light yellow or brown waxy substances. The remainder is a mixture of deep brown resinous and asphaltic substances. The yield may be increased by increasing the pressure during extraction, but this also adds dark colored dispersion products, and the resultant brown coal caimot be briquetted. 

Nuclear Waste. NRC defines high level radioactive waste to include (/) irradiated (spent) reactor fuel (2) Hquid waste resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, and the concentrated wastes from subsequent extraction cycles, in a faciHty for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel and (3) soHds into which such Hquid wastes have been converted. Approximately 23,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has been stored at commercial nuclear reactors as of 1991. This amount is expected to double by the year 2001. 

Solvent Extraction. Solvent extraction has widespread appHcation for uranium recovery from ores. In contrast to ion exchange, which is a batch process, solvent extraction can be operated in a continuous countercurrent-fiow manner. However, solvent extraction has a large disadvantage, owing to incomplete phase separation because of solubihty and the formation of emulsions. These effects, as well as solvent losses, result in financial losses and a potential pollution problem inherent in the disposal of spent leach solutions. For leach solutions with a concentration greater than 1 g U/L, solvent extraction is preferred. For low grade solutions with <1 g U/L and carbonate leach solutions, ion exchange is preferred (23). Solvent extraction has not proven economically useful for carbonate solutions. 

Chemical Precipitation. The product of the extraction processes, whether derived from acid or carbonate leach, is a purified uranium solution that may or may not have been upgraded by ion exchange or solvent extraction. The uranium ia such a solution is concentrated by precipitation and must be dried before shipment. Solutions resulting from carbonate leaching are usually precipitated directly from clarified leach Hquors with caustic soda without a concentration step, as shown ia equation 9. 

For vanadium solvent extraction, Hon powder can be added to reduce pentavalent vanadium to quadrivalent and trivalent Hon to divalent at a redox potential of —150 mV. The pH is adjusted to 2 by addition of NH, and an oxyvanadium cation is extracted in four countercurrent stages of mixer—settlers by a diesel oil solution of EHPA. Vanadium is stripped from the organic solvent with a 15 wt % sulfuric acid solution in four countercurrent stages. Addition of NH, steam, and sodium chlorate to the strip Hquor results in the precipitation of vanadium oxides, which are filtered, dried, fused, and flaked (22). Vanadium can also be extracted from oxidized uranium raffinate by solvent extraction with a tertiary amine, and ammonium metavanadate is produced from the soda-ash strip Hquor. Fused and flaked pentoxide is made from the ammonium metavanadate (23). 

Chromium Removal System. Chlorate manufacturers must remove chromium from the chlorate solution as a result of environmental regulations. During crystallization of sodium chlorate, essentially all of the sodium dichromate is recycled back to the electrolyzer. Alternatively, hexavalent chromium, Cr, can be reduced and coprecipitated in an agitated reactor using a choice of reducing agents, eg, sodium sulfide, sulfite, thiosulfate, hydrosulfite, hydrazine, etc. The product is chromium(III) oxide [1333-82-0] (98—106). Ion exchange and solvent extraction techniques have also... 

A predictive macromolecular network decomposition model for coal conversion based on results of analytical measurements has been developed called the functional group, depolymerization, vaporization, cross-linking (EG-DVC) model (77). Data are obtained on weight loss on heating (thermogravimetry) and analysis of the evolved species by Eourier transform infrared spectrometry. Separate experimental data on solvent sweUing, solvent extraction, and Gieseler plastometry are also used in the model. 

Controlling the extraction rate is vital because the shape and texture of the resultant fiber is directly influenced by the solvent removal rate. As the solvent is extracted from the surface of the fiber, significant concentration gradients can form. These gradients may result in a warping of the desired eircular shape of the fiber. For example, if the solvent is removed too quickly, the fiber tends to collapse into a dog-bone shape. Additionally, the solvent extraction rate influences the development of internal voids or flaws in the fiber. These flaws limit the tensile strength of the fibers. 

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