Cette étude considère des systèmes où non seulement la structure moléculaire, mais les conditions expérimentales sont impliquées. Les structures chimiques ont été codées par des descripteurs locaux ISIDA MA ou ISIDA CGR, ciblant spécifiquement les centres actifs et leur environnement le plus proche. Les descripteurs locaux ont été combinés avec les paramètres spécifiques des conditions expérimentales, codant ainsi un objet chimique particulier. La méthodologie a été appliquée avec succès pour la modélisation QSPR des paramètres thermodynamiques et cinétiques des interactions intermoléculaires (liaisons halogène et hydrogène), des équilibres tautomères et des réactions chimiques (cycloaddition et SN1). La méthode GTM a été appliquée pour la première fois pour la modélisation et la visualisation de données chimiques mixtes. La méthode sépare avec succès les groupes de données à la fois en raison des structures et des conditions. / This work describes original approaches for predictive chemoinformatics modeling of molecular interactions and reactions as a function of the structures of interacting partners and of the chemical environment (experimental conditions). Chemical structures have been encoded by local ISIDA MA-based or CGR-based descriptors, specifically targeting the active centers and their closest environment. The local descriptors have been combined with the specific parameters of experimental conditions, thereby encoding a particular chemical object. The methodology has been successfully applied for QSPR modeling of thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of intermolecular interactions (halogen and hydrogen bonds), tautomeric equilibria and chemical reactions (cycloaddition and SN1). GTM method has been applied for the first time for QSPR modeling and visualization of mixed chemical data. This method successfully separates data clusters on account of both chemical structures and experimental conditions.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / The production of biodiesel is generally performed by alkaline transesterification oils with low amounts of free fatty acids (FFAs). In order to decrease the costs of production of biodiesel, low quality waste cooking oils or grease have been investigated as a source alternative, but problems in the purification step due to the formation of soap are found in catalysis with sodium hydroxide. In this work, the ionic liquid choline hydroxide was produced and used as catalyst in the production of biodiesel from oils of frying food. An experimental design was carried out to investigate the influence of variables: molar ratio oil/alcohol, temperature and concentration of catalyst in the conversion of triglycerides and free fatty acids to methyl esters. The concentration of catalyst showed higher influence on conversion, followed by the molar ratio of oil / alcohol. The temperature range did not result in significant conversion changes. The kinetic analysis showed that the highest conversions were obtained with 3 hours of reaction. The statistical design allowed find optimal conditions: 5.5% w/w catalyst molar ratio of oil/methanol 1:12, temperature 40 ÂC and 3 hours of reaction. Thermodynamic properties and acid numbers were determined for reaction products of the reactions carried out in experimental design, in order to provide data for process control. The acid numbers of products of all reactions were significantly reduced, independent of conversion. To evaluate the possibility of recovery and reuse of the ionic liquid, the liquid-liquid equilibrium of systems containing water, 1-butanol and glycerin, water, 1-butanol and choline hydroxide, and the partition in the ionic liquid system water, 1-butanol and glycerin at 30  C were studied. The solubility of the components was evaluated by construction of the binodal curve and the compositions of the equilibrium phases were determined by densitometry. The results show that glycerin is distributed preferably in the phase rich in water and it was not possible to quantify all compositions the water phase system, 1-butanol and choline hydroxide in the case that an electrolytic system. / A produÃÃo de biodiesel à geralmente realizada por transesterificaÃÃo alcalina de Ãleos com baixa quantidade de Ãcidos graxos livres (AGLs). Visando diminuir os custos de produÃÃo do biodiesel, Ãleos de baixa qualidade ou residuais tÃm sido investigados como alternativa de fonte graxa, porÃm problemas na etapa de purificaÃÃo em decorrÃncia da formaÃÃo de sabÃes sÃo encontrados na catÃlise com hidrÃxido de sÃdio. Nesse trabalho, o lÃquido iÃnico hidrÃxido de colina foi produzido e aplicado como catalisador na produÃÃo de biodiesel a partir de Ãleos provenientes da fritura de alimentos. Um planejamento experimental foi realizado para investigar a influÃncia das variÃveis: razÃo molar Ãleo/Ãlcool, temperatura e concentraÃÃo de catalisador na conversÃo de triglicerÃdeos e AGLs a Ãsteres metÃlicos. A concentraÃÃo de catalisador apresentou maior influÃncia na conversÃo, seguido pela razÃo molar Ãleo/Ãlcool. A variaÃÃo de temperatura nÃo implicou em alteraÃÃes considerÃveis de conversÃo. A avaliaÃÃo cinÃtica mostrou que as maiores conversÃes foram obtidas com 3 horas de reaÃÃo. O planejamento estatÃstico permitiu encontrar condiÃÃes Ãtimas: 5,5 % m/m de catalisador, razÃo molar Ãleo/metanol de 1/12, temperatura de 40 ÂC e 3 horas de reaÃÃo. Propriedades termodinÃmicas e Ãndices de acidez foram determinados para os produtos reacionais das reaÃÃes realizadas no planejamento experimental, com o intuito de fornecer dados para o controle do processo. Os Ãndices de acidez dos produtos de todas as reaÃÃes apresentaram reduÃÃo significativa, independente da conversÃo. Para avaliar a possibilidade de recuperaÃÃo e reutilizaÃÃo do lÃquido iÃnico, o equilÃbrio lÃquido-lÃquido dos sistemas contendo Ãgua, n-butanol e glicerina, Ãgua, n-butanol e hidrÃxido de colina e a partiÃÃo do lÃquido iÃnico no sistema Ãgua, n-butanol e glicerina a 30 ÂC foram estudados. A solubilidade dos componentes foi avaliada por meio da construÃÃo da curva binodal e as composiÃÃes das fases em equilÃbrio foram determinadas atravÃs da densimetria. Os resultados mostram que a glicerina se distribui preferencialmente na fase rica em Ãgua e que nÃo foi possÃvel quantificar todas as composiÃÃes das fases do sistema Ãgua, n-butanol e hidrÃxido de colina por se tratar este de um sistema eletrolÃtico.

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Orientadores: Reginaldo Guirardello, Lucio Cardozo-Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T05:19:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jesus_LorenaBrancagliaode_M.pdf: 1007051 bytes, checksum: 2881509687072c829010312b1b5653e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: O conhecimento do equilíbrio de fases é de grande importância no projeto e análise de uma grande variedade de processos químicos, incluindo reatores e unidades de separação. É o caso, por exemplo, da indústria de produção de óleos vegetais e de produção de ácido cítrico. Geralmente, sistemas de interesse da indústria alimentícia são formados por muitos componentes. A determinação e o cálculo das propriedades termodinâmicas e do equilíbrio de fases, nesses casos, são bastante complicados. Devido à natureza não-convexa e não-linear de modelos termodinâmicos, necessários para descrever o problema do equilíbrio de fases, há um grande interesse na aplicação de técnicas de otimização para descrever o comportamento do equilíbrio. Problemas de otimização global, técnicas rápidas, seguras e robustas que têm certo grau de confiança para achar a solução global não foram ainda completamente desenvolvidos. Por isso, estudos desses métodos têm sido foco na simulação e otimização na engenharia química. Este trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo e aplicação de um método de busca estocástica para otimização global no cálculo do equilíbrio de fases de misturas complexas de sistemas de interesse da industria alimentícia. O método de busca estocástica utilizado é o algoritmo ¿simulated annealing¿ (SA) devido à sua principal vantagem em poder evitar mínimos locais (teoricamente) e de ser de fácil aplicação. A determinação do equilíbrio de fases é feita pela minimização da energia livre de Gibbs do sistema. Para a representação termodinâmica de misturas complexas de interesse da indústria alimentícia foram empregados os modelos NRTL (Non-Random-Two-Liquid) e UNIQUAC (UNIversal QUAsi-Chemical). Os dados experimentais utilizados como estudo de caso foram obtidos na literatura e foram caracterizados por meio de pseudo-componentes, uma vez que são formados por muitas substâncias diferentes. Os resultados obtidos para os casos estudados demonstraram que a aplicação da técnica de SA para minimização global da energia livre de Gibbs permite, juntamente com os modelos NRTL e UNIQUAC, a representação confiável dos dados experimentais em tempos muito bons de execução. Além disso, a técnica de SA mostrou-se robusta levando a resultados de mínimo global independentemente da estimativa inicial, mesmo para casos fortemente não-lineares e não-convexos / Abstract: In many industrial processes, during the phase of refining and separation, products form very complex mixtures. It is the case, for example, of the vegetal oil and citric acid industries. As these mixtures are formed by many components, determination and calculation of thermodynamic properties and phase equilibrium are very complicated. In this way, the use of the most rigorous methods able to calculate the phase equilibrium and to analyse the stability of phases of these mixtures becomes necessary. In this work, the determination of phase equilibrium is done by minimization of the Gibbs free energy of the system. The NRTL (Non-Random-Two-Liquid) and UNIQUAC (UNIversal QUAsi-Chemical) models were used for the thermodynamic representation of the complex mixtures, which were characterized by means of pseudo-components. Under conditions of constant temperature and pressure, the necessary and sufficient condition for a multiphase and multicomponent system to reach the equilibrium is that the Gibbs free energy is a global minimum. Based on this principle, equilibrium problems can be formulated and solved as otimization problems. The objective function for these problems is generaly highly nonlinear and usually nonconvex, and methods of global optimization are generally necessary for its minimization. The technique of global optimization studied and applied in this work is a method of random search named Simulated Annealing (SA), whose main advantages are the ability to avoid local minimum and the ease of application. The results obtained for the studied cases have demonstrated that the application of the technique of SA for global minimization of the Gibbs free energy, together with the models NRTL and UNIQUAC, allows a reliable representation of the experimental data in very short execution times. Moreover, the SA technique was robust, leading to the global minima independently of the initial estimate even for highly nonlinear and nonconvex cases / Mestrado / Desenvolvimento de Processos Químicos / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Orientador: Fernando Antonio Cabral / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T13:55:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_DanielaCaioAndre_M.pdf: 2263142 bytes, checksum: 6a08300201853fde99cabfc0824e3b26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Corrigiu-se empiricamente o parâmetro a da equação de estado de Peng-Robinson para o CO2 em função da temperatura e pressão, para que a equação pudesse calcular corretamente a fugacidade do dióxido de carbono em condições supercríticas. Em princípio, o intuito foi verificar se a modelagem termodinâmica com esta correção poderia correlacionar melhor os dados de equilíbrio de fases de sistemas constituídos de dióxido de carbono supercrítico e substâncias de interesse presentes em alimentos. Para testar esta hipótese, os seguintes sistemas bifásicos constituídos de dióxido de carbono supercrítico e componentes graxos foram selecionados da literatura: CO2 ¿ esqualeno, CO2 ¿ ácido oleico, CO2 ¿ tricaprilina, CO2 ¿ éster etílico de EPA, CO2 ¿ éster etílico de DHA, CO2 ¿ alfa-tocoferol, CO2 ¿ alfa-tocoferol, CO2 ¿ trioleína, CO2 ¿ tripalmitina. Tais escolhas são decorrentes do crescente interesse de se recuperar esses componentes minoritários de óleos brutos ou dos subprodutos resultantes do processamento convencional de óleos e gorduras, devido a sua importância na manutenção da saúde humana. Além disso, tem crescido o interesse por produtos naturais isentos de solventes orgânicos indesejáveis. Nesse sentido, os processos de extração com dióxido de carbono supercrítico vêm suprir esta demanda atual, pois é um solvente inerte que não agride o meio ambiente. Os resultados mostraram que as propriedades críticas que são estimadas por métodos de contribuição de grupos influenciaram mais no desempenho da modelagem termodinâmica que a correção do parâmetro a da equação de estado de Peng-Robinson. As maiores correções do parâmetro foram obtidas nas condições de maiores valores de temperatura e menores de pressão. No geral, a correção do parâmetro a não diminuiu o desvio em relação aos valores experimentais quando comparados aos valores obtidos sem a correção do parâmetro. No entanto, em alguns sistemas observou-se que a correção deste parâmetro para as condições de pressões elevadas modificou o comportamento dos valores de solubilidade calculados, produzindo valores mais próximos aos experimentais / Abstract: Corrected empirically the parameter a of the Peng- Robinson equation of state of for CO2 as a function of temperature and pressure, so that the equation could correctly calculate the fugacity of carbon dioxide in supercritical conditions. In principle, the aim was to verify whether the thermodynamic modeling with this correction could better correlate the phase equilibrium data from system consisting of supercritical carbon dioxide and substances of interest in food. To test this hypothesis, the following two-phase systems consisting of supercritical carbon dioxide and fatty components were selected from the literature: CO2 - squalene, CO2 - oleic acid, CO2 - tricaprylin, CO2 - ethyl ester of EPA, CO2 - DHA ethyl ester, CO2 - ?-tocopherol, CO2 - ?-tocopherol, CO2 - triolein, CO2 - tripalmitin. Such choices are the result of growing interest to recover these minor components of crude oils or byproducts resulting from conventional processing of oils and fats, due to its importance in maintaining human health. In addition, interest has grown in natural products free of undesirable organic solvents. In this sense, the processes of extraction with supercritical carbon dioxide come meet this current demand, it is an inert solvent that does not harm the environment. The results showed that the critical properties are estimated by group contribution methods of influence over the performance of thermodynamic modeling that the correction of the parameter to the equation of state of Peng-Robinson. The larger corrections of the parameter were obtained under conditions of higher temperatures and under pressure. In general, the correction of the parameter a does not diminish the deviation from the experimental values when compared to values obtained without the correction parameter. However, in some systems it was observed that the correction of this parameter for the conditions of high pressures changed the behavior of the solubility values calculated, yielding values closer to experimental / Mestrado / Engenharia de Alimentos / Mestre em Engenharia de Alimentos

L'objectif principal de ce travail est le développement d'une équation d’état précise pour la détermination des propriétés thermodynamique de mélange de gaz riche en gaz acides (CO2, H2S) contenant des hydrocarbures et autres gaz (impuretés) comme N2, O2, Ar, etc présente lors du stockage du CO2 (CCS). Après comparaisons avec des données expérimentales, nous avons retenu le modèle SAFT-VR Mie qui prédit de manière satisfaisante les masses volumiques pour les composés purs et les équilibres entre phases. Trois types de propriétés de transport ont également été prédites avec le modèle thermodynamique SAFT-VR Mie associé avec deux autres modèles de prédiction des propriétés de transport (TRAPP et DGT). La prédiction de ces propriétés de transport (viscosité et tension superficielle) repose sur une estimation la plus précise possible des masses volumiques. Pour compléter les banques données expérimentales, les équilibres liquide-vapeur concernant le système binaire H2S-Ar ont été déterminés à l'aide d'un dispositif de mesure dont la méthode technique repose sur la méthode "statique analytique" avec échantillonnage des phases (échantillonneur capillaire ROLI). Déplus, à l'aide d'un densimètre à tube vibrant, les masses volumiques de cinq systèmes binaires (H2S - hydrocarbures (méthane, éthane et propane) ont été mesurées. Les masses volumiques d'un système ternaire (CO2/CH4/H2S) et les masses volumiques et les viscosités d'un mélange multi-constituant riche en CO2 ont aussi été mesurées. Les données sont parfaitement représentées par les modèles développés au cours de cette thèse. / The main aim of this research is to develop a thermodynamic model from an accurate equation of state (EoS) for CO2, hydrocarbons and other gases as N2, O2, Ar, etc. The SAFT-VR Mie EoS was selected to study the phase behaviour and transport properties of mixtures related to carbon capture and storage (CCS). In order to asses this new version of SAFT, several equations of state have been compared (PR, SRK and PC-SAFT). SAFT-VR Mie EoS provides very good density predictions for pure component and binary systems according to the comparative study carried out. Therefore, three transport properties were modelled with SAFT-VR Mie and two models based on density predictions from the EoS. Thus, density, viscosity and interfacial tension (IFT) of CO2-rich systems were calculated by this SAFT-EoS (density), TraPP model (viscosity) and DGT (IFT), in the framework of CCS. Some experimental work was done, in order to extend the available literature data. Isothermal vapor-liquid equilibrium of H2S-Ar binary system was determined at three temperatures from 258 to 288 K. Densities of five binary systems of H2S with methane, ethane and propane were measured continuously at 3 temperatures (253, 273 and 293K) and at pressures up to 30MPa. Following the same technique, the density of the ternary system 42%CO2, 40%CH4 and 18%H2S was measured at pressures ranging from 0.2 to 31.5MPa and at 6 temperatures between 253 and 353K. Densities and viscosities of a multicomponent CO2-rich with 50% of impurities were measured at 5 temperatures between 283 and 423 K and at pressures up to 150 MPa.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第22777号 / 工博第4776号 / 新制||工||1747(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科材料工学専攻 / (主査)教授 乾 晴行, 教授 安田 秀幸, 教授 辻 伸泰 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DGAM

The main focus in the present work concerns calculations on steel/slag equilibria. Thermodynamic software and databases are now powerful and accurate enough to give reliable results when applied to complex metallurgical processes. One example is the decarburization process of high alloyed steels. It is shown that using advanced thermodynamic models, without a complicated kinetic description of the system, reasonable agreement with experimental data is obtained. The calculations are performed using the Thermo-Calc software. Within this work a Java interface for Thermo-Calc has been implemented. Java gives graphical possibilities and a graphical interface has been created that facilitates calculations that involve both metallic phases as well as oxides and make them feasible also for an industrial user. / QC 20101118

Alterations of fluid phase transitions in porous materials are conventionally employed for the characterization of mesoporous solids. In the first approximation, this may be based on the application of the Kelvin equation for gas–liquid and the Gibbs–Thomson equation for solid–liquid phase equilibria for obtaining pore size distributions. Herein, we provide a comparative analysis of different phase coexistences measured in mesoporous silica solids with different pore sizes and morphology. Instead of comparing the resulting pore size distributions, we rather compare the transitions directly by using a common coordinate for varying the experiment’s thermodynamic parameters based on the two equations mentioned. Both phase transitions in these coordinates produce comparable results for mesoporous solids of relatively large pore sizes. In contrast, marked differences are found for materials with smaller pore sizes. This illuminates the fact that, with reducing confinement sizes, thermodynamic fluctuations become increasingly important and different for different equilibria considered. In addition, we show that in the coordinate used for analysis, mercury intrusion matches perfectly with desorption and freezing transitions.

In this paper we formulate a nonlocal density functional theory of inhomogeneous water. We model a water molecule as a couple of oppositely charged sites. The negatively charged sites interact with each other through the Lennard–Jones potential (steric and dispersion interactions), square-well potential (short-range specific interactions due to electron charge transfer), and Coulomb potential, whereas the positively charged sites interact with all types of sites by applying the Coulomb potential only. Taking into account the nonlocal packing effects via the fundamental measure theory, dispersion and specific interactions in the mean-field approximation, and electrostatic interactions at the many-body level through the random phase approximation, we describe the liquid–vapour interface. We demonstrate that our model without explicit account of the association of water molecules due to hydrogen bonding and with explicit account of the electrostatic interactions at the many-body level is able to describe the liquid–vapour coexistence curve and the surface tension at the ambient pressures and temperatures. We obtain very good agreement with available in the literature MD simulation results for density profile of liquid–vapour interface at ambient state parameters. The formulated theory can be used as a theoretical background for describing of the capillary phenomena, occurring in micro- and mesoporous materials.