Tanks with multicomponent

In the preface to the English edition, Dr. Geiss stated that he found the information on fundamentals and reproducibility obsolete, incorrect, or misleading in TEC books available in 1987, and that he was writing a book that is not theoretical but describes what happens in TEC, or what the practitioner should know that happens, and how he can control what happens. He provided information he believed was needed to understand and predict optimal conditions for TEC in order to provide adequate and reproducible separations and reliable quantification. He was the only author up to that time to attempt to explain the complex situation occurring inside the TEC development tank with multicomponent mobile phases. 

An eluent container can be a Mariotte flask that produces constant hydrostatic pressure, and thus it can serve for the generation of the gravitational eluent transport in the chromatographs of the first generation. Simple solvent tanks, or even open vessels, are used as eluent containers in the instruments provided with efficient pumping systems. The preferential evaporation effects, however, should be prevented when working with multicomponent, mixed eluents. 

Some chromatographers use unsaturated tanks, that is, they pour in the mobile phase and then add the plate and begin development at once. Unsaturated tanks produce generally higher R p values because of evaporation of mobile phase from the surface of the layer and subsequent higher mobile-phase flow through the sorbent. Superior resolution with multicomponent solvents has been reported in some situations. The improvements are caused by a concentration gradient and mostly depend on the differential rates of evaporation of the solvent components and their affinities for the sorbent layer [50]. 

Chamber saturation is recommended for better reproducibility of the separation — especially if multicomponent mobile phase mixtures are composed of solvents differing in volatility or polarity to a great extent. Moreover, chamber saturation can improve resolution of two components or reduce the formation of secondary fronts. For chamber saturation, the large tank sides are lined with a sheet of filter paper 20 X 20 cm each. Dnring the filling of the mobile phase into the chamber, it is poured onto the filter, which is then completely wetted and soaked by the mobile phase. Note that the wet filter paper is dipped into the mobile phase at the trough bottom. The prepared closed tank will become satnrated within 15 to 30 min depending on the volatihty of the solvent components (withont wetted filter paper it needs more... 

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To illustrate the procedure, we consider a fairly complex process sketched in Fig. 6.4, which shows the process flowsheet and the nomenclature used. In the continuous stirred-tank reactor, a multicomponent, reversible, second-order reaction occurs in the liquid phase A + B C + D. The component volatilities are such that reactant A is the most volatile, product C is the next most volatile, reactant B has intermediate volatility, and product D is the heaviest component a/ > ac > olb > OiQ. The process flowsheet consists of a reactor that is coupled with a stripping column to keep reactant. A in the system, and two distillation columns to achieve the removal of products C and D and the recovery and recycle of reactant B. 

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