Survey of Available Methods

Several methods of estimating the sulfonate content of lignin in pulp simply measure total sulfur content and assume that all the sulfur is present in sulfonate groupings. 

Such methods are wet oxidation of pulp followed by estimation of sulfate by precipitation of barium sulfate (Canadian Pulp and Paper Association Standard G28 1970), X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (Rivington 1988, Kibblewhite et al. 1987), and combustion of pulp followed by analysis of sulfur as sulfur dioxide or as sulfate. The sulfur dioxide evolved is determined by iodometric titration (Canadian Pulp and Paper Association useful method G.7U, March 1959). Sulfate can be determined by titration with barium chloride (Ora 1960), back-titration with sulfuric acid after addition of barium perchlorate (Aldrich 1974), potentiometric titration with lead perchlorate using an ion-selective electrode (Ross and Frant 1969), or ion chromatography (Douek and Ing 1989). 

Methods that attempt to measure the sulfonate content directly are based on retention of benzidinium ions by sulfonate groups (Sjostrom and Enstrom 1966), titration of the hydrogen ions released when a sulfite pulp in its acid form is washed with potassium chloride adjusted to pH 4 (Cappelen and Schoon 

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A survey of available methods has, among others, been given by Smith and Van Gunsteren [51] see also Gilson [63]. Here a short overview of methods, with some comment on their quality and properties, will be given. 

From Fig. 13.13 it also follows that the frequency region covers at least 15 decades. This, of course, is not realisable with only one instrument. In Table 13.9 a classification of experimental techniques for the determination of the dynamic moduli is presented. It appears that even a combination of those techniques is not sufficient to cover the whole frequency range. Other, non-dynamic mechanical measurement techniques are needed, like creep, relaxation and flow measurements. This is illustrated in Fig. 13.14 where a survey of available methods is given. 

In order to gain information on the environments of certain atoms in dissolved species, in melts or in solids (crystalline or noncrystalline), which are not accessible to diffraction studies for one reason or another, X-ray absorption spectrometry (XAS) can be applied, with the analysis of the X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and/or the extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS). Surveys of these methods are available 39,40 a representative study of the solvation of some mercury species, ElgX2, in water and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) by EXAFS and XANES, combined with quantum-chemical calculations, has been published.41... 

What follows is not an exhaustive or up-to-the-minute survey of the methods available for protein quantitation, but a practical guide to selecting the appropriate assay for each stage of drug development. A case study further illustrates the application of the standard protein methods to the drug development process. The reader is referred to reviews on the topic for further details.12... 

Our objective in this work is to present surveys of the methods now available for the quantitative treatment of steric effects in the design of bioactive molecules. Commonly, this consists in the modification of a lead compound by structural changes which result in a set of bioactive substances. The bioactivity is determined and then related to structure. This is generally carried out by means of multiple linear regression analysis using a correlation equation of the type... 

This book is intended to be a critical assessment of procedures for method development and selectivity optimization. It is not intended to be a survey of available information, therefore references to the literature are included only when they are relevant to the text. Consequently, a number of references have been omitted. No doubt, some may also have been overlooked. 

A survey of the methods used to determine asphaltene structure indicates that there are serious shortcomings in all of the methods because of the assumptions required to derive the molecular formulae. The continued insistence that a complex fraction such as asphaltenes, derived in a one-step process from petroleum as a consequence of its insolubility in nonpolar solvents, has a definitive molecular structure is of questionable value to petroleum technology, and it is certainly beyond the scope of the available methods to derive such formulae. Asphaltenes would best be described in terms of several structural types rather than definite molecular structures. 

A brief survey of the methods available to reduce NO.v emissions in gas turbines indicates the advantages of catalytic combustion when these emissions must be reduced to the single digit levels required in many areas. 

If you do not find a solution to the problem in reference books, then you must resort to the scientific journals. Chemical Abstracts is the logical place to begin a hterature search. This journal contains abstracts of all papers appearing in the major chemical pubhcations of the world. Yearly and cumulative indexes are available to aid in the hterature search. The element or compound to be determined as well as the type of sample to be analyzed can be looked up to obtain a survey of the methods available. Author indexes are also available. Your hbrary may subscribe to SciFinder Scholar, the online access to Chemical Abstracts. You can search by chemical substance, topic, author, company name, and access abstracted journals. Once you have an article online, you can hnk to referenced articles in the paper. 

This completes our survey of the methods of achieving a vacumn, the types of vacuum pumps available and the techniques used to form thin films. We are now ready to continue our description of Devices which utilize phosphors in their operation. This was shown in 7.2.1. given above and includes displays that are not very prevalent at the present. 

The method has been in use with home-built equipment for several decades. Measurements are now possible to perform also with commercial equipment that has become available from at least two manufacturers. The method can be applied to measure dynamic parameters, like relaxation times, but also to obtain structure information, e.g. hyperfine coupling constants, the latter usually by applying Fourier transformation (FT) to the time-domain signals. A full survey of the method and... 

A detailed review of the experimental methods used to determine hydrocarbon conformations and dynamics will not be given, since two fine accounts are available. In their 1965 textbook Conformational Analysis Eliel, Allinger, Angyal and Morrison give a sixty page survey of physical methods which had been used until then. Berg and Sandstrom have given an up-to-date account of experimental techniques in a recent review. 

This section begins with a rough indication of the time scales in study of relaxation processes"to which discussion is limited with brief surveys of experimental methods and of the extent and quality of results available or in prospect. A review of primitive early relaxation models and circumstances for simple Debye relaxation is followed by sketches of observed patterns of relaxation behavior models proposed to account for them and developments in more sophisticated formal methods. 

In the 1960 s and 1970 s, this group of methods were intensively smdied and several commercially available instruments were developed but they are no loiter in widespread use. Interested readers can find a detailed survey of the method in references 1 and 2. 

A clear and exhaustive description of the method is in Dovesi, R. Civalleri, B. Orlando, R. Roetti, C. Saunders, V. R. Ab initio quantum simulations in solid state chemistry. Revs. Comp. Chem. 2005, 21, 1-125. This review contains a discussion of all aspects of periodic calculations, including differences between conducting and non-conducting systems, Brillouin zone sampling, basis set dependence, etc., and a survey of available computer packages. For the CRYSTAL software package for periodic MO calculations in crystals, developed by the authors, see www.crystal.unito.it. 

In Colloidal Systems with Liquid Disperse Phase, surfactants are needed to prevent the disperse phase from coalescing. The dynamics of the adsorption of surfactants at the interface during processing is of particular importance. Detailed and high-resolution measurements reveal that the mechanism of this adsorption comprises competitive effects among the various constitutive components of the system. Vesicles are peculiar, biomimetic liquid-liquid systems, in the sense that the dispersed droplets themselves are also a two-phase liquid-liquid system They consist of a liquid core surrounded by a liquid shell. A systematic survey of preparation methods and an analysis of the physicochemical parameters required should help the interesting application perspectives of vesicles to become available. 

A non-exhaustive condensed survey of these methods is given in Table 1. The techniques and instruments as such will not be discussed in any detail as several review articles are available. 

Now we consider some of the methods by which such separations can be achieved. A comprehensive survey is beyond the scope of this text, and many good surveys are already available. ... 

Before the widespread availability of instrumental methods the major approach to structure determination relied on a battery of chemical reactions and tests The response of an unknown substance to various reagents and procedures provided a body of data from which the structure could be deduced Some of these procedures are still used to supple ment the information obtained by instrumental methods To better understand the scope and limitations of these tests a brief survey of the chemical reactions of carbohydrates is m order In many cases these reactions are simply applications of chemistry you have already learned Certain of the transformations however are unique to carbohydrates... 

AH of these x-ray methods ate being intensively studied and improved. A detailed survey of most of these techniques is available (26). 

An extensive survey of accelerated test methods for anticorrosive coating performance which emphasizes the need to develop more meaningful methods of testing has been pubUshed (129). The most powerful tool available is the accumulated material in data banks correlating substrate, composition, apphcation conditions, and specifics of exposure environments with performance. 

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