Types of cascades

A cascade like Fig. 12.12, in which no attempt is made to reprocess the partially depleted tails streams leaving each stage, will be called a simple cascade. In a simple cascade the feed stream for one stage is the heads stream from the next lower stage of the cascade. This type of cascade connection is used in the lower stages of the Norsk Hydro electrolytic heavy-water plant where the tails streams have too little deuterium to warrant processing for deuterium recovery. The theory of such a cascade is developed in Sec. 6. 

When partially depleted tails have sufficient value to warrant reprocessing, a countercurrent recycle cascade like Fig. 12.13 may be used. This cascade flow scheme is by far the most 

Such a countercurrent cascade separates feed containing zp fraction of desired component flowing at rate F into product containing yp fraction of desired component flowing at rate P and waste, or tails, containing xw fraction of desired component flowing at rate W. These six compositions and flow rates are called the external variables of the cascade. 

Feed for each stage consists of heads from the next lower stage and tails from the next higher stage. These interstage flow rates and compositions will be called the internal variables of the cascade. 

Stages of the cascade are numbered consecutively from 1 at the waste end of the plant to n at the product end. The highest stage of the stripping section is numbered ng. 

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Fig. 13.5 Relative trends of the various types of cascade conversions over the years [4],...

We will also talk in Chap. 11 about the two types of cascade control series cascade and parallel cascade. The two examples discussed above are both series cascade systems because the manipulated variable affects the secondary controlled variable, which then affects the primary variable. In a parallel cascade system the manipulated variable affects both the primary and the secondary controlled variables directly. Thus the two processes are basically different and result in different dynamic characteristics. We will quantify these ideas later. 

The VPC scheme is a different type of cascade control system. The primary control is the position of the valve. The secondary control is the column pressure. The pressure controller is PI and tuned fairly tightly so that it can prevent the sudden drops in pressure. Its setpoint is slowly changed by the VPC to drive the cooling water valve nearly wide open. A slow-acting, integral-only controller should be used in the VPC. 

The same type of cascade cyclization has been applied to the one-step synthesis of fused azabicyclic compounds with medium to large-membered rings (Scheme 10). ... 

The simplest type of cascade extruder consists of two screws, one mounted above the other, the output from the first feeding the second. Interconnection is by a passage that can be vented to allow volatiles to escape. The screws are not in direct contact and can be driven at different speeds, the output from each of them being set at an optimum with the help of valves. 

Molander recognised the potential of the Sml2-mediated Barbier addition to esters for the initiation of sequential processes (Chapter 5, Section 5.4). Two types of cascade have been developed that involve nucleophilic acyl substitution the first type involves double intramolecular Barbier addition to an ester group (anionic-anionic sequences),17 and the second type consists of a Barbier addition to an ester followed by a carbonyl-alkene/alkyne cyclisation of the resultant ketone (anionic-radical sequences) (Scheme 6.12).18,19... 

There are two types of third-order cascades that can lead to an overall fifth-order signal. Ladder diagrams for the two types of cascades are shown in Fig. 2a and b, and we label them sequential and parallel. A sequential cascade (Fig. 2a) involves the emission of a field from the first vibrational coherence that then participates in driving a vibrational coherence on a different chromophore. A parallel cascade (Fig. 2b) begins with the preparation of vibrational coherences on separate chromophores as a result of interactions with the first and second pairs of laser fields. The probing interaction on one of the chromophores then results in a field that is involved in a probing interaction on the other chromophore. 

We consider here only those cascading processes that produce a signal field satisfying the same example phase matching condition considered above for the direct fifth-order process, ks = kx - k2 - k3 + let + ks. For this phase matching condition we must consider a total of four third-order intermediate polarizations two for each of the two types of cascades. The two symmetrical cascade intermediates are (a) ksi = ki —... 

Abstract Sequentially palladium-catalyzed reactions consist of combinations of identical, related, or significantly different palladium-catalyzed processes that occur in a sequential or consecutive fashion in the same reaction vessel without addition of further amounts of catalyst to the reaction media. This novel type of cascade reaction can be elaborated into both domino and multicomponent processes and represents a significant contribution to the highly topical field of diversity-oriented synthesis. 

A similar type of cascade reaction has been carried out with cyclic alkenes bearing only one olefinic side chain to obtain substituted heterocycles via ruthenium-catalyzed ring closing-ring opening metathesis (RCM-ROM) reactions. The preparation of enantiomerically pure cis- or trans-a,a -disubstituted piperidines has been achieved in the same yield for the two diastereoisomers [35] (Scheme 17). This reaction has also been used as a key step for the synthesis of natural products [36-39]. 

Another type of cascade continuous flow system did not try to settle in each stage, but allowed emulsion to flow co-currently through the system. 

The overall separation depends on the single stage separation factor, the number of separating elements, and design and operating characteristics of the cascade. Equations 5-8 are insufficient to determine all the variables. It is instructive to consider three types of cascades the minimum stage cascade, the minimum reflux cascade, and the ideal cascade. The material balance equations from the i + 1 th stage to the product of the cascade lead to... 

It is an aim of green chemistry (and good synthetic chemistry) to introduce as much useful functionahty as possible in the minimum number of steps. Unfortunately, this multi-component cascade couphng requires the use of anhydrous organic solvents. Nevertheless, it can be envisaged that the greener nanotin and electrochemical approaches described above could possibly be extended to this type of cascade sequence. 

In Fig. 13.13, the first two stages illustrate the type of cascade to which this problem refers. 

Pattenden also proposed a novel type of cascade for the steroid skeleton construction [39]. Starting from the relatively elaborated precursor 78, that notably bears a cyclopropyl ring, a double 6-endo-trig creates cw-hydrindane 80 (Scheme... 

Type of cascade impactor Nozzle type (stage) No. of stages Flow rate (1pm) Range of d50 (pm)... 

To minimize the particle bounce off effect, collection surfaces should also be selected carefully. Common types of impaction surfaces include membrane, fiberglass, silver membrane, Teflon and Nuclepore filter, and brass and stainless steel shim stock. Table 2.2 shows an example of the effect of selection of collection surface on the wall losses (Newton et al., 1990). In Table 2.2, the test aerosols are droplets of 1% CsCl plus 1% uranine. Three types of cascade impactors were used, including Mercer, Sierra Radial Slit Jet (SRSJ), and Lovelace Multi-Jet (LMJ). The occurrence of particle bouncing may be indicated by the presence of excess mass on the back-up filter. 

Np and Ny/ are the minimum number of enrichment and stripping stages, respectively. In isotope separations a is often very close to one In a can then be replaced by (a — 1). In practice some product flow is desired, the fraction withdrawn at the enrichment stage being known as "the cut" PIF. The number of stages required to produce the composition Xp then increases. The most economic, and thus also the most common, type of cascade for processes with near unity a is the so-called ideal cascade. In this there is no mixing of streams of unequal conc trations, thus j in Fig. 2.8. Alfliougfa the number of... 

More recently, receptors derived from simple Schiff base synthetic strategies were found to bind fluoride and water in the cavity 8 (Ar=m-xylyl). " In a slightly larger cavity derived from a p-xylyl spacer, two fluorides were bound inside the cavity, bridged by a single water molecule in a type of cascade complex (Ar=p-xylyl). The latter motif is reminiscent of the ditopic metal ion cascade complexes observed for these ligands. 

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