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Orientador: Teresa Massako Kakuta Ravagnani / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T11:49:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moraes_MarcioJosede_M.pdf: 836200 bytes, checksum: 68455f8118790f77c4f050ebcdd84455 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O propósito deste trabalho é a comparação, no âmbito experimental, das operações de uma coluna de destilação convencional e uma coluna de configuração alternativa denominada paradestilação. Enquanto que na destilação convencional, uma corrente de vapor ascendente contata com uma corrente de líquido descendente, na paradestilação, a corrente de vapor é dividida em duas correntes que percorrem paralelamente toda a extensão da coluna. Estas correntes contatam, em estágios alternados, com uma única corrente de líquido descendente. Ambas as colunas de destilação e de paradestilação foram construídas em escala laboratorial. As colunas possuíam seis pratos com vertedores circulares. O objetivo foi a comparação entre ambas as colunas variando a velocidade superficial do vapor, fração de área livre de escoamento, concentração de etanol e razão de refluxo. Os experimentos foram realizados utilizando o sistema etanol-água a pressão atmosférica. Um programa computacional foi desenvolvido para resolver o sistema de equações de balanço de massa e de energia em ambas as colunas. Estes cálculos forneceram os valores das velocidades das fases vapor e líquida, da composição da fase vapor, da temperatura e da eficiência de Murphree em cada estágio, e a eficiência global da coluna. Análises das variáveis que afetam a altura e o tipo da dispersão formada sobre os pratos, o perfil de concentração e eficiência de separação foram realizadas. Verificou-se que a faixa de operação é diferente em ambas as colunas. Observou-se que a paradestilação apresenta maior altura média de dispersão e maior incidência de dispersões tipo espuma celular e ¿froth¿ homogêneo. A paradestilação obteve melhor desempenho de separação na maioria das operações, e mostrou-se menos sensível à variação da razão de refluxo. Constatou-se também que a eficiência de Murphree na paradestilação sofre maior influência da composição da fase líquida. A paradestilação apresentou também melhor eficiência global que a destilação convencional / Abstract: In this work the hydrodynamics and mass transfer performances of a conventional distillation column were compared to those of a parastillation column. While in the conventional distillation, the up flowing vapor stream contacts the down flowing liquid stream, in parastillation, the vapor stream is divided into two parts that run in parallel along the entire column. These two vapour streams are contacted, in alternative stages, with a single down flowing liquid stream. Both distillation and parastillation columns were built in laboratorial scale. The columns had six trays with circular downcomers. The purpose was to compare both columns performances when varying the vapor superficial velocity, tray free area, feed concentration and reflux ratio. The experiments were carried out with ethanol-water system, at atmospheric pressure. A computer program was developed to solve the mass and energy balance equations for both columns. These calculations provided the velocity of the vapor and liquid phases, the composition of the vapor phase, the temperature and the tray Murphree efficiency in each stage, and the global column efficiency. The influence of the operation conditions on the height and the type of the dispersion formed on the trays, on the concentration profile and on the separation efficiency were analyzed in detail. It was verified that the tray operation range is different for both columns. It was observed that the parastillation column shows higher dispersions height and higher incidence of cellular foam and homogeneous froth dispersion types. The parastillation presented a better separation performance for most of the operation range, and showed to be little influenced by reflux ratio variation. It was noticed that the Murphree efficiency in parastillation was more influenced by the liquid phase composition. The parastillation also showed better global efficiency than the conventional distillation / Mestrado / Sistemas de Processos Quimicos e Informatica / Mestre em Engenharia Química

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Orientador: Pedro Luiz Onófrio Volpe / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Química / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T00:48:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Camargo_MarceloSilvanode_D.pdf: 5113129 bytes, checksum: 44e51a54bcc1176d6b50d7db1a17558d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é o estudo das propriedades locais de soluções líquidas binárias de não-eletrólitos. Para se alcançar tal objetivo, executou-se o cálculo dos valores das integrais de Kirkwood-Buff a partir de grandezas termodinâmicas, elaborado por Ben-Naim. Foram calculados valores para as integrais KB de uma solução de etanol em água a 298,15 K, dando-se especial ênfase a regiões de alta concentração de água. Outras grandezas locais, como o desvio da idealidade em relação a uma solução simétrica, também foram calculadas a partir dos resultados obtidos para as integrais KB. O enfoque diferencial de Koga foi utilizado de maneira a complementar a análise realizada com as integrais de Kirkwood-Buff, possibilitando um estudo mais aprofundado do sistema. Até onde o autor desta dissertação está familiarizado, a utilização conjunta destas duas ferramentas teóricas está sendo implementada pela primeira vez / Abstract: The objective of this work is the study of local properties of binary liquid solutions of non-electrolytes. To achieve this goal, Kirkwood-Buff integrals from thermodynamic quantities were obtained, as Ben-Naim has demonstrated. We obtained the values of Kirkwood-Buff integrals for a solution of ethanol in water at 298.15 K, with particular emphasis on areas of high concentration of water. Other local qantities, as the deviation of ideality with respect to a symmetric solution, were also calculated from the results obtained from KB integrals. Koga¿s Differential approach was used in order to complement the analysis provided by Kirkwood-Buff integrals, allowing further understanding of the system. As far as the author of this thesis is familiar, the joint use / Doutorado / Físico-Química / Mestre em Química

Pervaporation with a "reverse-selective" (hydrophobic) membrane is a promising technology for the energy-efficient separation of alcohols from dilute alcohol-water streams, such as those formed in the production of biofuels. Pervaporation depends on the selectivity and throughput of the membrane, which in turn is highly dependent on the membrane material. A nanocomposite approach to membrane design is desirable in order to combine the advantages and eliminate the individual limitations of previously-reported polymeric and zeolitic membranes. In this work, a hollow-fiber membrane composed of a thin layer of polymer/zeolite nanocomposite material on a porous polymeric hollow fiber support is developed. The hollow fiber geometry offers considerable advantages in membrane surface area per unit volume, allowing for easier scaling and higher throughput than flat-film membranes. Poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) and pure-silica MFI zeolite (silicalite-1) were investigated for these membranes. Iso-octane was used to dilute the dope solution to provide thinner coatings. Previously-spun non-selective Torlon hollow fibers were used as the support layer for the nanocomposite coatings. To determine an acceptable method for coating fibers with uniform, defect-free coatings, flat-film membranes (0 to 60 wt% MFI on a solvent-free basis) and hollow-fiber membranes (0 and 20 wt% MFI) were fabricated using different procedures. Pervaporation experiments were run for all membranes at 65C with a 5 wt% ethanol feed. The effects of membrane thickness, fiber pretreatment, coating method, zeolite loading, and zeolite surface treatment on membrane pervaporation performance were investigated.

A di-2-piridil cetona benzoilhidrazona (DPKBH) é um reagente solúvel em uma série de solventes orgânicos mas pouco solúvel em água. Vem sendo utilizado para a determinação de metais, (principalmente do grupo de transição) como Fe(II), Fe(III), Ni(II), Cu(II), entre outros e como ligante de referência para estudar o comportamento dos íons Fe(II) e Fe(III) em presença de espécies orgânicos encontrados em águas naturais. Com o objetivo de entender melhor as propriedades do DPKBH em meio de etanol, foi necessário determinar as constantes de dissociaçãolionização em diferentes porcentagens desse solvente orgânico (10, 19, 29 e 48 %). Nestas porcentagens de etanol, através de medidas absolutas de pH determinaram-se os pKs do DPKBH utilizando-se a técnica potenciométrica e em 10 e 48 % de etanol através de medidas absolutas de pH associadas às absorbâncias das espécies presentes nos equilíbrios, utilizando-se a técnica espectrofotométrica. Nas devidas porcentagens de etanol, o comportamento do eletrodo foi previamente determinado. Os valores de pK1 3,210; 3,342; 3,398 e 3,360 e de pK2 10,834; 11,013; 11,793 e 11,382 foram obtidos respectivamente para 10, 19, 29 e 48 % de etanol, utilizando-se a técnica potenciométrica. Através da técnica espectrofotométrica os valores de pK1 foram 3,257 e 3,322 e pK2 10,880 e 11,820, em 10 e 48 % de etanol, respectivamente. / The di-2-pyridyl ketone benzoylhydrazone (DPKBH) is a soluble reagent in different organic solvents but slightly soluble in water. It has been used for metal determinations, (mainly transition metals) such as for Fe (II), Fe(III), Ni(II), Cu(II) and also like a reference ligand to study the behavior of Fe(II) and Fe(III) ions in the presence of organic species found in natural waters. So as to better understand the DPKBH properties In ethanol, it was necessary to determine the dissociation/ionization constant in different percentages of ethanol (l0, 19, 29 and 48%). In these ethanol percentages, through absolute pH measurements, pKs of DPKBH could be the found by using the potentiometric technique, and in 10 and 48% of ethanol the pKs of DPKBH were determined with pH measurements associated to absorbance of the species present in the equilibria by using the spectrophotometric technique. In appropiate percentage of ethanol the behavior of the glass electrode was previously determined. The pK1 values 3.210; 3.342; 3.398 and 3.362, and pK2 10.834; 11.013; 11.793 and 11.382 were found for 10,19,29,48 % of ethanol, by using the potentiometric technique. The spectrophotometric technique led to pK1 values 3.257 and 3.322, and the pK2 ones 10.880 and 11. 820 in 10 and 48 % of ethanol respectively.

This thesis is mainly concerned with some important properties of complex fluids, and how these properties are influenced by structures in the nano/mesoscopic scale. Short-range assembly of the constituent molecules results in an amazing variety of phase behavior in these systems. Liquid-liquid phase transitions, or transitions from a homogeneous(mixed) phase to an immiscible phase (two-phase coexistence), are the outcome of a competition between entropy and short-ranged attractive forces, and form an important part of this thesis. A rich phase behavior is uncovered by a detailed study of liquid-liquid phase transitions in a mixture of ethanol(E) and water(W), induced by the addition of ammonium sulfate(AS) ions (E and W are otherwise completely soluble in each other). This is the main motivation for choosing this system. Furthermore, experimental evidence of the presence of supramolecular association in alcohol-water mixtures [J.-H. Guo et al., Phys. Rev Lett, 91, 15401(2003)] enhances our interest to study the phase behavior in more detail. The presence of a critical point, at which there is a second order phase transition, is quite common in complex fluids. An issue which has been the subject of extensive scientific research in recent years is the influence of nano/mesoscopic structure on the critical behavior of these fluids corresponds to the Ising universality class. However, the approach to the asymptotic regime is governed by a competition between the correlation length of critical concentration fluctuations and the additional length scale arising due to structuring., which results in a crossover from the universal Ising behavior to the mean-field behavior, sometimes within the critical domain. This phenomenon of crossover criticality is presently explored in the E + W + AS system. A significant portion of the thesis presents explorations on the critical behavior in the vicinity of special critical points (SCP), which are formed by the coalescence of two or more critical points. Recentrant liquid-liquid phase transitions observed in the E + W + AS system, furnishes an unique opportunity for the realization of three SCPs – the double critical point(DCP) and the critical double point(CDP) formed by the merger of two critical points , and a critical inflection point(CIP), formed by the merger of three critical points. A CIP had not been experimentally realized prior to the studies presented in this thesis. Apart from the above studies investigations are also carried out on the conformational changes of a technologically important conducting polymer, polyethylene dioxythiophene doped with polystyrene suflonate (PEDOT-PSS), in various solvents. The electrical and optical properties of the polymer films get enhanced when solution processed with specific solvents. The experiments presented in this thesis are directed at unraveling the role of conformational modifications in the electrical and optical properties of these systems. The experimental techniques that were employed in the present studies are: Laser light scattering, small-angle X-ray scattering(SAXS) measurements and visual observations. The eoexistence surface of the system E + W + AS was determined by visual observations. Laser light scattering measurements were conducted to study the critical behavior of osmotic susceptibility (xr) of E + W + As, whereas SAXS studies were conducted to ascertain the existence, and quantify the spatial extent of the additional length scale in the two systems investigated. The main objectives of this research were: (i) to study the phase behavior of the ternary mixture E + W + AS at atmospheric pressure; (ii) to check the existence of crossover from 3-D Ising to mean-field critical behavior while moving away from Tc in this system; (iii) to determine the nature (monotonic or nonmonotonic) of crossover; (iv) to provide some insight into the origin of this crossover behavior in terms of an additional length scale characteristic of the system; (v) to understand the evolution of the critical behavior in the proximity of CDP, and DCP; (vi) to experimentally realize the CIP; and (vii) to investigate the presence of solvent-induced conformational changes in conducting polymer.