Temperature, equilibrium-selective

Mixture property Define the model to be used for liquid activity coefficient calculation, specify the binary mixture (composition, temperature, pressure), select the solute to be extracted, the type of phase equilibrium calculation (VLE or LLE) and finally, specify desired solvent performance related properties (solvent power, selectivity, etc.)... 

The optimum data are selected in step l by using a precalculated standard deviation, which is directly related to the constancy of temperature. These selected sets of data are used in step 2 for calculation of equilibrium vapor pressures by means of the Knudsen equation. A regression analysis of these vapor pressure data is then carried out in step 3. 

The heat of reaction for vinyl polymers affects the thermal stability of the polymer during extrusion, and the thermal stability is related to the ceiling temperature. The ceiling temperature is the temperature where the polymerization reaction equilibrium is shifted so that the monomer will not polymerize, or if kept at this temperature all the polymer will be converted back to monomer. From thermodynamics the equilibrium constant for any reaction is a function of the heat of reaction and the entropy of the reaction. For PS resin, the exothermic heat of reaction for polymerization is 70 kj/gmol, and the ceiling temperature is 310 °C. Ceiling temperatures for select polymers are shown in Table 2.5. 

When developing a liquid phase adsorptive separation process, a laboratory pulse test is typically used as a tool to search for a suitable adsorbent and desorbent combination for a particular separation. The properties of the suitable adsorbent, such as type of zeolite, exchange cation and adsorbent water content, are a critical part of the study. The desorbent, temperature and liquid flow circulation are also critical parameters that can be obtained from the pulse test. The pulse test is not only a critical tool for developing the equilibrium-selective adsorption process it is also an essential tool for other separation process developments such as rate-selective adsorption, shape-selective adsorption, ion exchange and reactive adsorption. 

Fig. 13.2 Predicted equilibrium concentrations as function of temperature of selected major and minor species in a typical flue gas from combustion.

The equilibrium constant can be derived from free energy considerations of gas chromatographic data. It may also be obtained directly from the measurement of all concentrations at the specified temperature by selection of a column that can separate each component and by a quantitative method of detection. 

Despite the fact that both normal and monomethyl-substituted paraffins readily enter the pores of ZSM-5 and ZSM-11, preferential sorption of the normal isomer is observed under thermodynamic equilibrium, non-kinetically controlled conditions. Whereas small-pore zeolites, such as 5A and erionite, totally exclude branched hydrocarbons, and large-pore zeolites exhibit little preference, the intermediate pore-size zeolites ZSM-5 and ZSM-11 show a marked preference for sorption of the linear paraffin, even under equilibrium conditions. Competitive liquid phase sorption studies at room temperature indicated selectivity factors greater than ten in favor of n-hexane relative to... 

Table 1.7. Influence of temperature on selected equilibrium constants. 

The precedure used in finding an unknown temperature is (a) Assume a temperature and select a second temperature 1.0% higher to give two values of T, (b) make K value and equilibrium calculations at both temperatures, and (c) the temperatures and summations from these calculations are used in a... 

The characteristic rotational temperatures 0rot for H2, HD, and D2 are 84.8, 63.8, and 42.6°K, respectively. The symmetry of H2 and D2 require that for optical transitions, AJ = 2, while for HD, AJ = 1. At room temperature, normal hydrogen -H2 is composed of 25% para-H2 (,J even) and 75% ortho-H2 (J odd), while at lower temperatures, equilibrium hydrogen contains an increasing proportion of para-H2. These rotational species do not change form in gaseous collisions, so that it is possible to select nearly pure p-H2 (e.g., boil-off from liquid H2) and perform measurements on it and its mixtures with n-H2 over a range of temperatures, before surface catalysis... 

Similarly, contrasting effects of column temperature on selectivity were reported. The following section will highlight the thermodynamic signatures of these phenomena. Thermodynamic equilibrium constants at constant pressure, at variance... 

Figure 1. The sample was allowed to equilibrate at 20°C In this chand>er under a dry nitrogen purge. At some initial time, 20°C liquid tap water was introduced and circulated through the environmental chamber. For each sample, the water temperature was subsequently cycled between 50 C and 20 C. These temperatures were selected since they correspond with the onset and peak values of the tertiary dynamic mechanical tan 6, w transition. Enough time was allowed between temperature changes to establish "equilibrium" dynamic mechanical property values associated with each hygrothermal state.

WATEQ2 consists of a main program and 12 subroutines and is patterned similarly to WATEQF ( ). WATEQ2 (the main program) uses input data to set the bounds of all major arrays and calls most of the other procedures. INTABLE reads the thermodynamic data base and prints the thermodynamic data and other pertinent information, such as analytical expressions for effect of temperature on selected equilibrium constants. PREP reads the analytical data, converts concentrations to the required units, calculates temperature-dependent coefficients for the Debye-HKckel equation, and tests for charge balance of the input data. SET initializes values of individual species for the iterative mass action-mass balance calculations, and calculates the equilibrium constants as a function of the input temperature. MAJ EL calculates the activity coefficients and, on the first iteration only, does a partial speciation of the major anions, and performs mass action-mass balance calculations on Li, Cs, Rb, Ba, Sr and the major cations. TR EL performs these calculations on the minor cations, Mn, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Ni, Ag, and As. SUMS performs the anion mass... 

Keywords. Na-X type zeolite, CO selectivity, low temperature, equilibrium adsorbent, pressure-swing adsorption... 

Figure 3.18 Polymer volume fraction (V2) at swelling equilibrium for poly(methyl trifluoropropylsiloxane) (PMTFPS) networks as a function of the temperature in selected solvents (20). (O, ) Butyl acetate ( , ) tetrahydrofuran (A, A) ethyl acetate (O, ) -chlorobutane. Empty and filled symbols represent values of V2 obtained by increasing and decreasing the temperature, respectively. (From Ref. 20.)...

When a drying temperature is selected, the relative humidity should not be too low so as to initiate calcination, or too high so as to promote surface adsorption and capillary condensation. In addition the drying conditions of temperature and relative humidity must not affect the chemical equilibrium. However, since each calcium sulfate compound has its own stability region in the phase diagram, the drying conditions must be in a region where all the phases present in the sample remain stable. 

Practically, pol3nnerization temperatures are selected on the basis of the activities of the catalyst, cyclosiloxane, and endblocker used with the aim of arriving at thermodynamic equilibrium within an acceptable time period. In the bulk polymerization of D4, modest temperature changes reportedly do not affect the final equilibrium number average molecular weight of the polymers (37). 

When the temperature increases, the equilibrium shifts in the direction of higher dissociation pressure of the oxide and the surface becomes more and more populated with electrophilic oxygen species. When used as catalysts in oxidation of hydrocarbons, such oxides may show high selectivity to partial oxidation products at low temperatures, wherein the surface coverage with transient electrophilic oxygen forms is low. Under such conditions the conversion is very low. On raising the temperature the selectivity to partial oxidation products rapidly decreases, whereas the conversion in total oxidation increases, becoming the predominant reaction... 

The main advantage of the ODE process is that the reaction is complete (therefore, conversions are not limited by equilibrium) and can be carried out at lower temperatures however, selective catalysts are required to minimize the formation of unwanted carbon oxides [44]. Among others, acid catalysts (such as alumina, zeolites, and metal phosphates) were tested successfully in ODE. One of the peculiar features observed with such systems was the formation of a coke layer, which was found to be the real catalytic surface [45-50]. These results suggested that carbon materials could be used as catalysts for the reaction. 

Figure 4.2-11 shows the axial power distribution for an equilibrium cycle. This distribution indicates 65 percent of the power in the top zone, 25 percent in the middle zone, and 10 percent in the bottom zone. This distribution is expected to minimize peak fuel temperatures. The selection of the active core height of ten fuel elements was made to yield a maximum power rating while maintaining an axial power shape that remains stable with burnup and stable to axial xenon transients. 

FIGURE 1.6 Typical equilibrium moisture isotherms at room temperature for selected substances (1) asbestos fiber, (2) PVC (50°C), (3) wood charcoal, (4) Kraft paper, (5) jute, (6) wheat, (7) potatoes. 

Selection of the catalyst to reduce the working temperature (equilibrium). 

In general, the different temperatures will deviate from one another only if the population distribution of the different modes (e.g. the rotational distribution, as given in eq. 3) is suddenly and selectively changed. However, due to rapid internal relaxation and collisional energy exchange between molecules in the liquid phase, temperature equilibrium (eq. 4) is usually reestablished in less than a nanosecond. Thus, the temperature T of a system can be rapidly and effectively raised by funneling energy into the system in either of the four modes. 

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