Vacuum systems water vapor

The vapor stream from the meal and oil distillation systems consists of solvent vapor, water vapor (from the stripping steam) and air that has entered the system entrained in the voids of the press cake. Some additional air unavoidably gains entry into the vacuum systems. The vapor stream from the final condenser consists of air saturated with solvent and water vapors. The solvent vapors are selectively scrubbed in a packed tower by a counterflow of special mineral oil. The mineral oil is recycled after being heated, stripped of solvent, and cooled. The hexane vapor remaining in the vent stream should be below the lower explosive limit (1.3% by volume). Nevertheless, overall rapeseed plant losses per tonne flow through the extractor are typically much higher than they are for soybeans. This problem should be researched and, if possible, overcome. 

Steam-Jet Systems. Low pressure water vapor can be compressed by high pressure steam in a steam jet. In this way, a vacuum can be created over water with resultant evaporation and cooling water, therefore, serves as a refrigerant. This method frequently is used where moderate cooling (down to 2°C) is needed. The process is inefficient and usually is economically justified only when waste steam is available for the motive fluid in the steam jet. 

The role, design, and maintenance of creepproof barriers in traps, especially those in oil DPs, remain to be fully explored. In general, uncracked oil from a DP is completely inhibited from creeping by a surface temperature of <223 K. On the other hand, a cold trap, to perform effectively in an ordinary vacuum system, must be <173 K because of the vapor pressure of water, and <78 K because of the vapor pressure of CO2. For ultracontroUed vacuum environments, LN temperature or lower is required. CO2 accumulation on the trap surface must be less than one monolayer. The effectiveness of a LN trap can be observed by the absence of pressure pips on an ionization gauge when LN is replenished in the reservoir. 

Butyl slurry at 25—35 wt % mbber continuously overflows from the reactor through a transferline to an agitated flash dmm operating at 140—160 kPa (1.4—1.6 atm) and 55—70°C. Steam and hot water are mixed with the slurry in a nozzle as it enters the dmm to vaporize methyl chloride and unreacted monomers that pass overhead to a recovery system. The vapor stream is compressed, dried over alumina, and fractionated to yield a recycle stream of methyl chloride and isobutylene. Pure methyl chloride is recovered for the coinitiator (AlCl ) preparation. In the flash dmm, the polymer agglomerates as a coarse cmmb in water. Metal stearate, eg, aluminum, calcium, or zinc stearate, is added to control the cmmb size. Other additives, such as antioxidants, can also be introduced at this point. The polymer cmmb at 8—12 wt % in water flows from the flash dmm to a stripping vessel operated under high vacuum to... 

Air is usually the basic load component to an ejector, and the quantities of water vapor and/or condensable vapor are usually directly proportional to the air load. Unfortunately, no reliable method exists for determining precisely the optimum basic air capacity of ejectors. It is desirable to select a capacity which minimizes the total costs of removing the noncondensable gases which accumulate in a process vacuum system. An oversized ejector costs more and uses unnecessarily large quantities of steam and cooling water. If an ejector is undersized, constant monitoring of air leaks is required to avoid costly upsets. 

In the above example, 1 lb of initial steam should evaporate approximately 1 lb of water in each of the effects A, B and C. In practice however, the evaporation per pound of initial steam, even for a fixed number of effects operated in series, varies widely with conditions, and is best predicted by means of a heat balance.This brings us to the term heat economy. The heat economy of such a system must not be confused with the evaporative capacity of one of the effects. If operated with steam at 220 "F in the heating space and 26 in. vacuum in its vapor space, effect A will evaporate as much water (nearly) as all three effects costing nearly three times its much but it will require approximately three times as much steam and cooling water. The capacity of one or more effects in series is directly proportional to the difference between the condensing temperature of the steam supplied, and the temperature of the boiling solution in the last effect, but also to the overall coefficient of heat transfer from steam to solution. If these factors remain constant, the capacity of one effect is the same as a combination of three effects. 

It has similar characteristics to the above systems shown in 6.17.2. and 6.18.1. But, if the EUV method is successful, it will require a near vacuum since oxygen and water vapor strongly absorb 157 nm radiation. 

Multiphase extraction uses a vacuum system to remove various combinations of contaminated groundwater, separate-phase petroleum product, and vapors from the subsurface. The system lowers the water table around the well, exposing more of the formation. Contaminants in the newly exposed vadose zone are then accessible to vapor extraction. Once above ground, the extracted vapors or liquid-phase organics and groundwater are separated and treated. 

Measurement of relative humidity depends on the system used. Systems employing vacuum are usually evacuated prior to introduction of water vapor [29]. For cases in which there is not a gas-forming reaction occurring, measurement of total pressure in the system can be used as a measure of water vapor pressure. Systems in which air is not evacuated require specific measurement of water vapor pressure. (For the latter type of system, caution should be taken to assure that the relative humidity source is in close proximity to the solid, since the diffusion of water vapor through air to the solid is required to maintain a constant relative humidity in the immediate vicinity of the solid.) A wide variety of pressure measuring instrumentation is commercially available with varying accuracy, precision, and cost. 

Although other techniques can be used to measure the relative humidity above a saturated solution, one relatively simple procedure is to utilize a vacuum system to remove air from the headspace (by vapor phase expansions) and then, with the vacuum pumps isolated and the saturated solution maintained at a constant temperature, measure water vapor pressure. Water vapor pressure can... 

Kinetic fractionations can occur when there is incomplete isotopic exchange between the different phases present in a system. A thorough introduction to kinetic stable isotope fractionation theory is unfortunately beyond the scope of the present review. Flowever, it is useful to include a brief discussion of some basic aspects, particularly in comparison to equilibrium fractionation theory. A simple example of kinetic fractionation is the evaporation of a liquid water droplet into a vacuum, in this example FljO molecules entering the gas phase are physically removed from the vicinity of the droplet, so there is no chance for isotopic equilibration between vapor-phase molecules and the residual liquid. Isotopic fractionation in this case is determined by a one-way reaction path, and will not, in general, be the same as the fractionation in a system where vapor-phase molecules are able to equilibrate and exchange with the liquid. In other reactions, isotopic exchange is limited by an energy barrier—an... 

Deposition was performed using a vacuum system [1]. Before deposition of the alkoxlde, the sample was evacuated at 673 K for 2 hr, and the temperature was then lowered to 593 - 293 K for the deposition of silicon methoxlde. S1(0CH3)4 vapor was then admitted to the dried zeolite at a vapor pressure of 2.5 Torr. The resultant Increase of weight was measured by the quartz microbalance. After the deposition, the decatlonlzed zeolite was calcined Iji situ by oxygen at 673 K to remove the coke residue, while the Na-type mordenlte was treated with water vapor at 593 K. The amount of SI deposited was... 

There are two basic evaporator designs that are typically used atmospheric and vacuum evaporation (Metals Handbook 1987). Atmospheric evaporation principles are similar to those of a heated open tank, with the exception that the heated liquid is sprayed over plastic packing in order to increase its surface area and accelerate evaporation. Atmospheric evaporators on chrome plating lines have sometimes been used simultaneously as evaporators and as plating bath fume scrubbers. Atmospheric evaporators are considerably less expensive than vacuum evaporators. Typical atmospheric evaporator capital costs range from 2500 to 4000, while vacuum evaporator costs can be an order of magnitude or more higher. In atmospheric evaporator systems, however, vaporized water is not recovered, as it can be in vacuum systems. 

Equipment. A three-neck distillation flask was used as a reactor. In a typical run, the flask was charged with waste oil and demetallizing reagents. The content was agitated and heated by a mechanical stirrer and heating mantle respectively. The reaction was carried out at atmospheric pressure, and water vapor and light ends were condensed and collected during the process. Oil was filtered immediately after the reaction by means of a vacuum filteration system, or allowed to settle down at constant temperature for a sedimentation study. 

For a surface condenser to work properly, noncondensable vapors must be sucked out of llie shell side. This is done with a two-stage jet system, as shown in Fig. 18.3. When I was first commissioned the jets, they were unable to pull a good vacuum. Moreover, water periodically blew out of the atmospheric vent. I found, after considerable investigation, that the condensate drain line from the final condenser was plugged. 

III-7. Hydrogen Photogeneration from Low-Pressure Water Vapor. Water vapor can react with oxygen vacancies of illuminated pre-reduced SrTi03 surfaces to yield hydrogen and lattice oxide.(14) Vacuum-prepared (111) surfaces of pre-reduced and stoichiometric SrTi03 were heated to 400°C in 10 Torr D2O in a UHV system equipped with a quadrupole mass spectrometer. Illumination of the pre-reduced crystal caused an increase in the D2 pressure of the system equivalent to D2 production of 3 mono-layers/hr. No such effect was seen on the stoichiometric crystal. 

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