Solvents replacement

The principal industrial appHcation for isobutyl alcohol is as a direct solvent replacement for 1-butanol. It is also used as a process solvent in the flavor and fragrance, pharmaceutical, and pesticide industries. The maximum employment of isobutyl alcohol was in the mid-1980s when it had a distinct price advantage over 1-butanol (10). More recently, however, with increased demand for other value added derivatives of isobutyraldehyde, the price differential between isobutyl and -butyl alcohols has diminished resulting in a switching back by some consumers to 1-butanol. 

Adsorption at electrodes is universally considered to be a solvent replacement reaction90,906,907 ... 

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The three examples related to solvent replacement cover the generation and evaluation of solvent alternatives for Ethyl Glycol Acetate, Ethyl Glycol and Methylene Chloride. Where feasible, the selected solvent alternatives have been tested under conditions of industrial application and/or laboratoiy scale experiments with very encouraging results. 

The basic GC-model of the Constantinou and Gani method (Eq. 1) as presented above provides the basis for the formulation of the solvent replacement problem as a MILP-optimization problem. For purposes of simplicity, in this chapter, only the first-order approximation is taken into consideration (that is, W is equal to zero). In this way, the functions of the target properties of the generated molecules (solvent replacements) are written as monotonic functions of the property values, thereby, leading to a linear right hand side of the property constraints (property model equation), as follows,... 

Figure 2 Generated solvent replacements for Ethyl Glycol Acetate...

Among the remaining two solvent replacement candidates, Propylamine can be corrosive for metals like Aluminium and Copper and it is extremely flammable. For these reasons, this candidate is also rejected. 

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As with cleaning, many researchers are looking toward solvent-free coatings as the answer to solvent replacement. 

Solvent replacement technology is a diverse field that affects many industries. It is a field driven by regulations implemented to protect our environment and health rather than for purely economic or scientific reasons. However, these regulations often translate to economic incentives and have given rise to many exciting and innovative technologies that otherwise might never have been developed. 

Several methods have been proposed to guide the solvent replacement process for the many applications described in the chemical literature. These efforts attempt to build an organized framework for this process and provide a substantial improvement over previously ad hoc or trial-and-error approaches to solvent replacement. Joback outlines a methodology for the selection of replacement solvents for various processes such as extraction or cleaning (Joback, 1994). There are basically four steps to this process identify constraints on important solvent properties, compile data for all properties, rank solvents satisfying the target constraints, and evaluate top solvent candidates using simulation. 

Table 9.1. Programs developed for property prediction, solvent replacement studies, and reaction design (Sherman et al., 1998).

Ethylene glycol in the presence of an acid catalyst readily reacts with aldehydes and ketones to form cyclic acetals and ketals (60). 1,3-Dioxolane [646-06-0] is the product of condensing formaldehyde and ethylene glycol. Applications for 1,3-dioxolane are as a solvent replacement for methylene chloride, 1,2-dichloroethane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, and methyl ethyl ketone as a solvent for polymers as an inhibitor in 1,1,1-trichloroethane as a polymer or matrix interaction product for metal working and electroplating in lithium batteries and in the electronics industry (61). 1,3-Dioxolane can also be used in the formation of polyacetals, both for homopolymerization and as a comonomer with formaldehyde. Cyclic acetals and ketals are used as protecting groups for reaction-sensitive aldehydes and ketones in natural product synthesis and pharmaceuticals (62). 

The substitution reaction in which a molecule of solvent replaces one of the ligands represents one of the most commonly and conveniently studied processes in coordination chemistry. In labile systems, analysis of the relaxation kinetics in the complex formation studies will, of course, give the rate constants for the solvolysis as well as those for the complex formation. In inert systems... 

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