Vaporisation efficiency

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Types of columns and packings. A slow distillation rate is necessary to ensure that equilibrium conditions operate and also that the vapour does not become superheated so that the temperature rises above the boiling point. Efficiency is improved if the column is heat insulated (either by vacuum jacketing or by lagging) and, if necessary, heated to Just below the boiling point of the most volatile component. Efficiency of separation also improves with increase in the heat of vaporisation of the liquids concerned (because fractionation depends on heat equilibration at multiple liquid-gas boundaries). Water and alcohols are more easily purified by distillation for this reason. 

Table 7.87 shows the main features of on-line micro LC-GC (see also Table 7.86). The technique allows the high sample capacity and wide flexibility of LC to be coupled with the high separation efficiency and the many selective detection techniques available in GC. Detection by MS somewhat improves the reliability of the analysis, but FID is certainly preferable for routine analysis whenever applicable. Some restrictions concern the type of GC columns and eluent choice, especially using LC columns of conventional dimensions. Most LC-GC methods are normal-phase methods. This is partly because organic solvents used as eluents in NPLC are compatible with GC, making coupling simpler. RPLC-GC coupling is demanding water is not a suitable solvent for GC, because it hydrolyses the siloxane bonds in GC columns. On-line RPLC-GC has not yet become routine. LC-GC technology is only applicable to compounds that can be analysed by GC, i.e. volatile, thermally stable solutes. LC-GC is appropriate for complex samples which are difficult or even impossible to analyse by a single chromatographic technique. Present LC-GC methods almost exclusively apply on-column, loop-type or vaporiser interfaces (PTV).

In entrainer sublimation, an entrainer gas is blown into the vaporisation chamber of a sublimer in order to increase the vapour flowrate to the condensing equipment, thereby increasing the yield. Air is the most commonly used entrainer, though superheated steam can be employed for substances such as anthracene that are relatively insoluble in water. If steam is used, the vapour may be cooled and condensed by direct contact with a spray of cold water. Although the recovery of the sublimate is efficient, the product is wet. The use of an entrainer gas in a sublimation process also provides the heat needed for sublimation and an efficient means of temperature control. If necessary, it may also provide dilution for the fractional condensation at the desublimation stage. Entrainer sublimation, whether by gas flow over a static bed of solid particles or through a fluidised bed, is ideally suited to continuous operation. 

On an industrial scale, chemical reactions involving reactants in the gaseous or vaporised state which come into contact with a solid, which is either a catalyst or another reactant, necessarily involve several physical and chemical steps. Some of these physical and chemical steps are coupled and it is this complexity, together with the problem of efficient gas—solid contact, which dictates that gas—solid catalytic and non-catcilytic reactions should be considered as a particular class of problem. 

Lv is the heat of vaporisation at constant volume. The heat of vaporisation at constant pressure AHp = Ly + p Av is given in Table 2 for different molecules. The table shows that AHp per gram is abnormally high for water. The cause is the large value of the first term in Eq. (3) and the smallness of the water molecules. The high values of AHp for water are important for the efficient cooling mechanism by vaporisation of perspiration of animals. 

The efficiency is sometimes quantified by the number of the theoretical plates, the number of effective vaporisation and condensation steps that are required to achieve a condensate of given composition form a given distillate. 

Mujtaba (1989) used CMH model to simulate the operations considered by Domenech and Enjalbert (1974). Since the overall stage efficiency in the experimental column was 75%, the number of theoretical plates used by Mujtaba was 3. The column was initialised at its total reflux steady state values. Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) model was used for the VLE property calculations. Vapour phase enthalpies were calculated using ideal gas heat capacity values and the liquid phase enthalpies were calculated by subtracting heat of vaporisation from the... 

The introduction of an electro-thermal vaporisation (ETV) unit to an ICP-OES plasma source can be used for most solid and liquid samples with considerable ease. Drying and pyrolysis can remove the solvent and major components and the residual analytes are vaporised and transported by the argon gas flow to the ICP-OES plasma source where metals of interest are detected with a rapid CCD detector. The ETV sampling/analysis provides higher analytical transport efficiencies and can detect very low trace levels of metals (i.e. in the ppt range). 

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