Water vapor sensitivity

Zhang, RD Alamdari, H Kaliaguine, S. Water vapor sensitivity of nanosized La(Co, Mn, Fe)i x(Cu, PdjxOs perovskites during NO reduction by CsHe in the presence of oxygen. Appl. Catal. B Environmental, 2007, Volume 72,331-341. 

Due to a small water vapor sensitivity of the IrTMOS structure, the signal from the sensor was allowed to stabilze for 3.5 minutes after the absorption of the sample before the activator strip was pressed down. Again the relative enzyme activity (in the reagent strip) was determined from slopes of versus time plots. Some results are shown in Fig.7. The sensitivity of this solid carrier system is about 0.005 /iM Hg ". One sample was analyzed in less than 8 minutes. 

This process was used to synthesize a number of perovskite formulations, which were then extensively characterized for their catalytic properties such as oxygen storage capacity [49], water vapor sensitivity [50], conversion of CO and exhaust gas emissions [48], sensitivity to CO adsorption [39,40], reduction of NO by propene [51-53], reduction of NO either by CO [54] or by C3H5 [55-58], synthesis of higher alcohols [56,59], CO hydrogenation [60], oxidation of stearic acid [61], and methanol [62]. 

Radiation differs from conduction and convection not only in mathematical structure but in its much higher sensitivity to temperature. It is of dominating importance in furnaces because of their temperature, and in ciyogenic insulation because of the vacuum existing between particles. The temperature at which it accounts for roughly half of the total heat loss from a surface in air depends on such factors as surface emissivity and the convection coefficient. For pipes in free convection, this is room temperature for fine wires of low emissivity it is above red heat. Gases at combustion-chamber temperatures lose more than 90 percent of their energy by radiation from the carbon dioxide, water vapor, and particulate matter. 

Corrosion products and deposits. All sulfate reducers produce metal sulfides as corrosion products. Sulfide usually lines pits or is entrapped in material just above the pit surface. When freshly corroded surfaces are exposed to hydrochloric acid, the rotten-egg odor of hydrogen sulfide is easily detected. Rapid, spontaneous decomposition of metal sulfides occurs after sample removal, as water vapor in the air adsorbs onto metal surfaces and reacts with the metal sulfide. The metal sulfides are slowly converted to hydrogen sulfide gas, eventually removing all traces of sulfide (Fig. 6.11). Therefore, only freshly corroded surfaces contain appreciable sulfide. More sensitive spot tests using sodium azide are often successful at detecting metal sulfides at very low concentrations on surfaces. 

To measure gas and water vapor permeability, a film sample is mounted between two chambers of a permeability cell. One chamber holds the gas or vapor to be used as the permeant. The permeant then diffuses through the film into a second chamber, where a detection method such as infrared spectroscopy, a manometric, gravimetric, or coulometric method isotopic counting or gas-liquid chromatography provides a quantitative measurement (2). Die measurement depends on the specific permeant and the sensitivity required. 

Catalyst Poisons. Hausberger, Atwood, and Knight (33) reported that nickel catalysts are extremely sensitive to sulfides and chlorides. If all materials which adversely affect the performance of a catalyst were classified as poisons, then carbon laydown and, under extreme conditions, water vapor would be included as nickel methanation catalyst poisons. 

Since feedbacks may have a large potential for control of albedo and therefore temperature, it seems necessary to highlight them as targets for study and research. Besides the simple example above of cloud area or cloud extent, there are others that can be identified. High-altitude ice clouds, for example, (cirrus) have both an albedo effect and a greenhouse effect. Their occurrence is very sensitive to the amount of water vapor in the upper troposphere and to the thermal structure of the atmosphere. There may also be missing feedbacks. 

Situation Two different strengths of plastic foil are in evaluation for the packaging of a moisture-sensitive product. Information concerning the diffusion of water vapor through such foils is only sparsely available for realistic conditions. To remedy this lack of knowledge, samples of the product are sealed into pouches of either foil type and are subjected to the following tests ... 

Calcium sulfate, the substance used to absorb water in desiccators, provides an example of this temperature sensitivity. Anhydrous calcium sulfate absorbs water vapor from the atmosphere to give the hydrated salt. The reaction has a negative AS° because water molecules become more constrained when gaseous water molecules move into the solid state. The reaction also has a negative AH ° because of the electrical forces of attraction... 

Sensitivity was found to decrease with increasing temperature (20-50° C) for the gold-plated crystal. Water vapor at 50% relative humidity was not a serious interference. The smallest weight of diisopropyl methylphosphonate detected at 10 g L 1 was approximately 0.5 ng (Kristoff and Guilbault 1983). 

A 13 liter, semispherical sampling vessel with a flow rate of 0.5 /min was used. The electrode (38 mm diameter) in front of the ZnS(Ag) scintillator was placed in the center of the bottom and was set at -3,000 V relative to the vessel wall. Since the ERM is sensitive to water vapor (Porstendorfer et al, 1980 Dalu et al., 1983), the air sample was passed through a dehumidefier to maintain the relative humidity in the chamber less than 2.9 %. 

The cross-sensitivity of the C02 sensor to water vapor is shown in Figure 16, where the expected modulation index, with the measurement cell filled... 

Of the three general methods, the last seems to be the most practical. Theoretically, with high enough concentrations of hydrocarbons, the first method, the headspace analysis, should be both the most accurate and the easiest to calibrate. Operationally, it leaves much to be desired both because of the problems of sensitivity and those of the accommodation of the larger molecules in water. The second method, vacuum degassing, requires much more equipment than the third method and requires that large amounts of water vapor be removed before the sample is injected into the gas chromatograph. The last method is so much less complicated that even with its calibration problems it has been adopted almost universally. 

Grain boundaries have a significant effect upon the electrical properties of a polycrystalline solid, used to good effect in a number of devices, described below. In insulating materials, grain boundaries act so as to change the capacitance of the ceramic. This effect is often sensitive to water vapor or other gaseous components in the air because they can alter the capacitance when they are absorbed onto the ceramic. Measurement of the capacitance allows such materials to be used as a humidity or gas sensor. 

Partial gas- or vapor pressures during freeze drying can also be measured by a mass spectrometer, and water vapor pressures by hygrometers, sensitive only for water vapor. Both systems are necessary for development- and analytical work, but in production plants they need only to be used to check or identify process data. 

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