Weak base anions

Weak Base. Weak base anion-exchange resins may have primary, secondary, or tertiary amines as the functional group. The tertiary amine -N(CH2)2 is most common. Weak base resins are frequentiy preferred over strong base resins for removal of strong acids in order to take advantage of the greater ease in regeneration. 

Most weak base anion exchangers adsorbweak organic acids such as formic acid [64-18-6] and acetic acid [64-19-7] but do not remove weak organic acids such as carbonic acid [463-79-6] or siHcic acid [7669-41 ]. 

Weak Base Anion Exchangers. Both styreoic and acryHc copolymers can be converted to weak base anion-exchange resias, but differeat syathetic routes are aecessary. Styreae—DVB copolymers are chloromethylated and aminated ia a two-step process. Chloromethyl groups are attached to the aromatic rings (5) by reactioa of chloromethyl methyl ether [107-30-2] CH2OCH2CI, with the copolymer ia the preseace of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst such as aluminum chloride [7446-70-0], AlCl, iroa(III) chloride [7705-08-0], FeCl, or ziac chloride [7646-85-7], ZaCl. ... 

Strong Base Anion Exchangers. As ia the synthesis of weak base anion exchangers, strong base resias are manufactured from styrenic as well as acryhc copolymers. Those based on copolymers of styrene and divinylben2ene are chloromethylated and then aminated. These reactions are the same as for the styrenic weakbase resias. The esseatial differeace is the amine used for amination. Trimethyl amine [75-50-3] N(CH2)3, and /V, /V- dim ethyl eth a n ol amine [108-01 -0] (CH2)2NCH2CH20H, are most commonly used. Both form quaternary ammonium functional groups similar to (8). 

Fig. 1. Demineializei systems consist of various unit processes arranged to meet the system needs. I Lstrong acid cation exchanger I I Strong ha anion exchanger 0 Degasifier I Mixed bed I Weak acid cation exchanger 1 1 Weak base anion exchanger and I IConnterflow cation.

For an amine (weak base) anion-exchange column in its chloride form, the following order has been observed ... 

Strong-acid cation exchanger weak base anion exchangers... 

As noted earlier, ion-exchange materials are grouped into four specific classifications depending on the functional group attached strong-acid cation, strong-base anion, weak-acid cation, or weak-base anion.. In addition to these, we also have inert resins that do not have chemical properties. 

Silica fouling is the accumulation of insoluble silica on anion resins. It is caused by improper regeneration which allows the silicate (ionic form) to hydrolyze to soluble silicic acid which in turn polymerizes to form colloidal silicic acid with the beads. Silica fouling occurs in weak-base anion resins when they are regenerated with silica-laden waste caustic from the strongbase anion resin unless intermediate partial dumping is done. 

Weak base anion exchangers Duolite A303 Duolite A378 Amberlite 45 Amberlite 68 Amberlite 93 AG3-X4A... 

The organic resin material is often a styrene divinylbenzene (DVB) copolymer in a network or matrix, to which are attached functional groups such as a sulfonic acid, carboxylic acid, and quaternary ammonium. The nature of these groups determines whether the resin is classified as a strong/weak acid (cation resin) or strong/weak base (anion resin) ion-exchanger. 

Where an organic trap is part of a demineralization plant system, it is placed in the train upstream of the strong base anion (SBA) resin unit. When the organic trap resin is placed within the same pressure vessel, physically on top of the anion resin (stratified bed), in which case, as it forms part of the overall anion capacity, a weak base anion resin operating in the free base form is employed. 

When passage of a sugar solution at 90°C through a weak-base anion exchange resin was interrupted, an explosion occurred. This was attributed to an exothermic Maillard reaction (interaction of an amino acid with a glycosidic OH group) under the poor heat transfer conditions in a particulate bed without fluid flow. 

Weak base anion resins Just like for weak acid resins, the operation of weak base anion resins is greatly affected by pH. They exhibit their maximum exchange capacity in the pH range up to 7.0. They hardly adsorb any strong acids they cannot split salts. 

Aliphatic amine-type weak base anion exchangers Amberlites IR-45 and IRA-67 Dowex 3-x4A Permutit E Permutit A 240A (Rohm and Haas, USA) (Dow Chemical Co, USA) (Permutit AG, Germany) (Phillips and Pain-Vermorel, France)... 

Adsorption chromatography is an efficient way to isolate organic acids from large volumes of water. The nonionic, macroporous, Amberlite XAD-8 and the weak-base anion-exchange resin Duolite A-7 are two resins well suited for this purpose. These resins have been successfully used to extract organic acids from natural waters at sites where it was necessary to process thousands of gallons of sample. 

The magnitude of the diffusion coefficients given in Table I can be compared with a value of 3.3 X 10 5 cm.2/sec. determined experimentally by Stokes (26) for HCl in bulk solution at infinite dilution. The pore diffusion coefficients listed in Table I for HCl vary by a factor of (2 - 4) X 10"2 from that given by Stokes. McNeill and Weiss (15) have indicated that active carbon can be considered as a weak-base anion-exchange sorbent. According to Helfferich (13), diffusion coefficients in such resins can be several orders of magnitude less than the corresponding bulk solution coefficients. The Cl" ion probably limits the rate of diffusion, since its mobility in aqueous solution is much less than that of the H30+ ion. Further evidence to support this conclusion has been obtained in the present work from determinations of pore diffusion... 

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