Orientador: Martin Aznar / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T20:46:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cunha_EvelynVilmaCaravazi_M.pdf: 1619492 bytes, checksum: 1e4afeecf37b0da40904e4da5be5eb20 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Neste trabalho são determinados experimentalmente dados de equilíbrio líquido ¿ líquido dos sistemas de duas fases aquosas, água + PEG 8000 + sulfato de magnésio e água + PEG 8000 + sulfato de sódio, nas temperaturas de 25 e 50ºC. As composições de ambas as fases em equilíbrio foram obtidas por gravimetria, utilizando a técnica de liofilização (freeze-drying) para a determinação da quantidade de água e a calcinação em forno mufla para quantificação de PEG, sendo que a composição de sal foi obtida por diferença de massa. Os dados assim obtidos foram modelados através dos modelos NRTL e UNIFAC para o cálculo do coeficiente de atividade. O modelo NRTL, com a estimação de novos parâmetros de interação energética entre as espécies envolvidas, apresentou excelentes resultados de correlação, com baixos desvios entre as composições experimentais e as calculadas. O modelo UNIFAC, que é basicamente preditivo, foi capaz de representar satisfatoriamente os sistemas estudados com alguns grupos funcionais e parâmetros de interação existentes na literatura e outros estimados a partir dos dados experimentais obtidos nesse trabalho / Abstract: In this work, experimental data of the liquid-liquid equilibrium for the aqueous twophase systems water + PEG8000 + magnesium sulfate and water + PEG8000 + sodium sulfate were determined at 25 e 50°C. The compositions of both equilibrium phases were obtained by a gravimetric method, using the lyofilization (freeze-drying) technique for the water determination and the calcination in a muffle furnace for the PEG determination; in this way the salt was determined by mass difference. The experimental data were modeled by the NRTL and UNIFAC models for the activity coefficient. The NRTL model, with new energy interaction parameters, showed excellent correlation results, with low deviations between experimental and calculated compositions. The UNIFAC model, which is a predictive one, was able to represent the studied systems with some energy interaction parameters form the literature and others estimated from the experimental data determined in this work / Mestrado / Desenvolvimento de Processos Químicos / Mestre em Engenharia Química

Orientador: Rahoma Sadeg Mohamed. / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T07:15:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_AlexandreParkerde_M.pdf: 11817583 bytes, checksum: eb5c95965e5d6dea4c4ee13a0b0c8983 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 / Resumo: A precipitação de parafinas é um sério problema enfrentado pela industria do petróleo ao longo de toda a sua cadeia produtiva gerando custo elevado para sua prevenção e tratamento. Este trabalho tem por objetivos contribuir aos estudos do comportamento de fases de misturas binárias, temárias e multicomponentes de n-parafinas, na faixa de n-'C IND. 23¿¿H IND. 48¿ a n-'C IND. 50¿H IND. 102¿. Temperaturas de Precipitação de Parafinas (TPP) foram levantadas experimentalmente utilizando-se a Calorimetria de Varredura Diferencial (DSC). Resultados experimentais apresentaram três principais comportamentos de fases: precipitação de parafinas como solução sólida, precipitação com componentes parcialmente miscíveis na fase sólida e precipitação dos componentes separadamente. Quando um ou mais componentes intermediários são adicionados a misturas binárias que cristalizam separadamente ou com solubilidade parcial surge uma tendência de solubilização. Foi testada a capacidade de alguns modelos termodinâmicos (misturas ideais, soluções regulares, fase multisólida, CDLP e composição local) na predição do comportamento de fases de misturas de n-parafinas. Conforme esperado, os modelos de soluções regulares, CDLP e composição local se mostraram mais adequados a misturas que formam soluções sólidas. O modelo da fase multisólida demonstrou boa capacidade preditiva para sistemas que cristalizam separadamente ou com solubilidade parcial. Este trabalho também apresenta dados importantes sobre misturas temárias e multicomponentes de n-parafinas, ainda pouco tratadas na literatura / Abstract: Wax Precipitation is a very serious problem faced in the petroleum industry through all phases of production and processing, due to the large costs involved in prevention and treatment. This work is focused on the study of phase behavior of binary, temary and multicomponent mixtures of n-paraffins in the range of n-'C IND. 23¿¿H IND. 48¿ a n-'C IND. 50¿H IND. 102¿. CSOH1o2.Wax Precipitation Temperatures (WPT) were experimentally obtained using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). Experimental results can be c1assified in three different categories in accordance to the phase behavior obtained: precipitation as solid solutions, precipitation as eutectic mixtures and precipitation wherein the components exhibited limited solid solubility. A tendency for solubilization appears when one or more n-alkanes, with intermediate molecular weight, are introduced in eutectic or with limited solid solubility mixtures. Some thermodynamic models (ideal mixture, regular solution, multisolid phase, CDLP and local composition) were tested for predictions of the phase behavior of those mixtures. As expected, regular solution, CDLP and local composition models provided good predictions for systems that exhibit solid solution behavior while the multisolid phase model provided best description for systems with limited solid solubility and eutectic behaviors. This work also displays important aspects about temary and multicomponent mixtures no much attended in the literature / Mestrado / Mestre em Engenharia de Petróleo

Orientador: Elias Basile Tambourgi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Quimica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:58:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leite_PatriciaBernardi_D.pdf: 6148337 bytes, checksum: f4db900db28f697e2c296bf0ea5251a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: : A enzima glicose-6-fosfato desidrogenase (G6PDH) pode ser obtida de origem animal, vegetal ou microbiana, como no caso da levedura Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Esta enzima apresenta grande importância para a sobrevida celular uma vez que participa da regulação do ciclo das pentoses sendo responsável pela manutenção de um nível adequado de NADPH nas células. A deficiência de glicose-6-fosfato desidrogenase (G6PDH) em seres humanos é considerada a mais importante enzimopatia diagnosticada. A deficiência desta enzima favorece a ruptura de membrana dos glóbulos vermelhos (hemácias ou eritrócitos) levando à anemia hemolítica. Nesse trabalho, estudou-se as condições de extração da enzima G6PDH através do uso da técnica de extração líquido-líquido por micelas reservas de tensoativos aniônicos (AOT) e catiônicos (CTAB). Planejamentos estatísticos específicos para casa sistema analisado foram empregados. As variáveis estudadas foram pH, concentração do tensoativo e temperatura. Estudou-se, também uma microcoluna agitada por campânulas pulsadas, visando promover um eficiente contato entre as fases através de uma agitação suave, aumentando assim o tempo de contato entre as fases no interior da microcoluna e também evitando a desnaturação da enzima. As porcentagens de recuperação da enzima para estes sistemas variaram de nulos a 5,10% utilizando AOT e de nulos a 14,04% cin CTAB. No entanto, observou-se diminuição na atividade catalítica da enzima ...Observação: O resumo, na íntegra, poderá ser visualizado no texto completo da tese digital / Abstract: The enzime glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) it can be obtained of animal origin, vegetable or microbial, as in the case of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This enzymes presents great importance for the cellular survival once it participates in the regulation of the cycle of the pentosys being responsible for the support of an appropriate level of NADPH in the cells. The deficiency of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G¨PDH) in human being the most important diagnosed enzymepatic is considered. The deficiency of this enzyme favors the rupture of the membrane of the red globules (hemacys or erythrocytes), taking to the hemolytic anemia. In this work, it was studies the conditions of extraction of the enzyme G6PDH by extraction on reserved micelles utilizing a anionic surfactant (AOT) and cationic surfactant (CTAB). Specific statical design for each analyzed system were used. The studied variables were: pH, concentration of the surfactant and temperature. It was studied, also, a microcolumn agitated by pulsed caps, due to promote an efficient contact between the phases in the column and also to avoid the enzyme denaturation and the loss of main proteins properties. The percentages of recovery of the enzyme of these system varied of 0 to 5,10% using AOT and of 0to 14,04% with CTAB. However, decrease was observed in the catalytic activity of the enzyme ...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations / Doutorado / Sistemas de Processos Quimicos e Informatica / Doutor em Engenharia Química

Submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements of Masters in Applied Sciences (Chemistry), Durban University of Technology, 2017. / This thesis forms part of the Durban University of Technology Thermodynamics Research Unit’s project which is aimed at developing a method for determination of the liquid-liquid equilibria (LLE) data for the azeotrope {methanol + water} with an ionic-liquid (IL) using DSA5000M to assess the efficiency of the ionic liquid to be used in liquid-liquid extractions for the recovery and recycling of methanol from petroleum refinery. The objective of this study was to determine the liquid-liquid equilibria data of the azeotrope {methanol + water} using 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethyl sulfate ionic liquid with the intention to recycle methanol from the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process by- products in petroleum industries and to utilize it in gasoline additives in a new methanol to gasoline (MTG) petroleum process. LLE studies of systems containing alcohols and water are important due to the increasing demands of oxygenated compounds to produce lead free gasoline. Light alkanols such as methanol and ethanol are reported to be suitable compounds in order to produce lead free gasoline, but the use of methanol in gasoline blends can cause phase separation problems in: 1. dry conditions, these are due to its partial solubility in saturated hydrocarbons. 2. the presence of water from ambient humidity or in storage tanks, this depend on unfavourable distribution factor between aqueous and the hydrocarbon phase. To determine the possibility of separating methanol from water using ionic liquid, the liquid-liquid equilibria data was determined at room temperature, T = 298.15 K and atmospheric pressure to investigate whether it separate from water and/or a non-phase separation if it is used as an additive. The experimental data generated was compared to that of the literature for the system {methanol (1) +toluene (2) + dodecane (3)} and showed good agreement with the literature data with only maximum deviation of ± 0.0015 in the mole fraction using density calculations and ± 0.0092 in the mole fraction when using refractive index calculations The selectivities and distribution coefficients for this system were also calculated and the maximum deviation between the two methods (nD and ρ) was ± 1.33 in selectivities and found to be ±0.001 for distribution coefficients. The maximum deviation in distribution coefficients from literature when using nD calculations for system 1 was ±0.04 and ±0.01 for ρ. For the selectivity values the deviation from that of literature of nD when compared was found to be ± 1.28 and 0.29 for ρ respectively. The selectivity values from the density calculations were found to be in the range 2.82 – 7.66 for this system with the distribution coefficient values reported in the range 0.17 – 0.23. In the second system (system 2) the generated experimental data was also compared to that of the literature for the system {water (1) + methanol (2) + cyclohexane (3)} and in good agreement with literature values with only maximum deviation of ± 0.0091 in the weight fraction based on density calculations. The selectivities and distribution coefficients were also calculated and the maximum deviation between the literature and the experimental data was computed to be at ± 0.0003 for selectivity and ±0.09 in distribution coefficient. The selectivity values were found to be in a range 0.00 - 0.04 for this system and were constant throughout the phases but significantly less than one; with the distribution coefficient values in the range 0.00 – 0.008. For 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethyl sulfate system (Ionic liquid system) the selectivity values were not constant throughout the two-phase region and the values were found to be in the range 0.63 -0.99 still below one which indicates that the ionic liquid used in this study could not be considered as a potential solvent for the separation of the investigated azeotrope. The distribution coefficients for this system were determined and found to be in the range 0.23 – 0.74. The certainty and reliability of experimentally measured tie-line data was ascertained by applying Othmer-Tobias (OT) correlations and the Non-Random, Two Liquid (NRTL) parameters. The OT correlations for system 1 was linear and indicated the certainty of the five tie-lines prepared for this system. In system 2 the OT correlation was not linear and indicated extensively high errors as well as high systematic multiplicative and additive errors in calculations of mole fractions. For the IL system the OT correlation was linear throughout the whole tie-line range and indicated the adequate precision, which denotes that the investigation was carried out with minimal random and systematic errors and indicated the efficiency of the DSA 5000 M to generate the liquid-liquid equilibria data. All the ternary systems were well correlated and in good agreement with the estimated NRTL data. It was only system 1{methanol (1) + toluene (2) + dodecane (3)} that gave a high maximum deviation ( %RSMD) of 1.288 when using the RI measurements with the minimum error margin of 0.6320, this account as to why RI measurements were not applied in other systems (system 2 and ionic liquid system). Similarly for the same system; system 1{methanol (1) + toluene (2) + dodecane (3)} when using the density measurements; the NRTL model gave a maximum deviation of 0.5620 and minimum error margin of 0.2590. The NRTL obtained for system 2 {water (1) + methanol (2) + cyclohexane (3)} gave the maximum deviation of 0.5752 and minimum error margin of 0.0127. The NRTL for the ionic liquid ternary system {[EMIM][EtSO4](1) + methanol (2) + water (3)}showed a good agreement between the experimental data and the NRTL model tie- line data with the %RSMD of 1.0201 on the upper limit and 0.1620 as a lower deviation. / M

The ternary phase behaviour of the n-heptane-l-propanol-water system was studied and compared with the theoretical prediction based on the UNIQUAC model for non-electrolyte solutions. The results showed that this model adequately approximated experimental studies. The excess enthalpies and excess volumes for several binary mixtures were determined. The excess enthalpies were measured using a LKB flow microcalorimeter and the excess -volumes determined using a PAAR densitometer. The study showed that no significant enthalpy or volume changes occurred when petrol/n-heptane were mixed with alcohols . Ternary phase diagrams, including tie lines have been determined for a number of petrol-alcohol-water systems (including the Sasol blend of alcohols). The tie line results show that the concentration of water in the water-rich layer is strongly dependent on the type of alcohol used. The Sasol alcohol blended with petrol resulted in a high water concentration in the water-rich layer which forms on phase separation. This is believed to contribute significantly to the corrosion problems experienced by motorists using the Sasol blended fuel on the Witwatersrand. The effect of temperature on several of these blends was included in the study. Diesel-alcohol blends and the co-solvent properties of ethyl acetate investigated. Ethyl acetate ensures miscibility at low concentrations for diesel-ethanol blends. Octyl nitrate and two cetane improvers from AECI were assessed in terms of their ability to restore cetane rating of blended diesel fuel to that of pure diesel fuel. The results indicated that all three samples were successful in this application. / KMBT_363

This dissertation details research aimed at designing a small batch distillation column to purify tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene from a mixture containing tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropylene and octafluorocyclobutane. As no vapour-liquid equilibrium data are available for these chemicals in this mixture, new vapour-liquid equilibrium data were experimentally generated and modelled for use in the design of the batch distillation column. The data were fitted to the Peng-Robinson equation of state, utilizing the Mathias-Copeman alpha function. The model was used with the Wong- Sandler mixing rules alongside the NRTL alpha function. The model was fitted with mean relative deviations lower than 1.2 %, indicating an acceptably accurate description of the VLE data gathered by the model. The experimental data and the model also passed the thermodynamic consistency test for all the systems and isotherms. The design simulations were completed by means of the Aspen Batch Distillation, a module of the Aspen Technologies package. The results show that the optimum design for recovering high-purity products requires six equilibrium stages in the column. The batch column should consist of a still pot, also functioning as a reboiler, a packed column section and a total condenser. The total condenser and the reboiler both count as equilibrium stages. Using this design, a TFE product purity of 99.999 % is predicted with a recovery of 96 %. An HFP product purity of 99 % is predicted at a recovery of 68 %. The recovery of the HFP product can be increased, but entails a significant loss of product purity. The minimum column diameter required to achieve the flow rates suggested in the simulation is 29 mm. The column diameter was selectedas 1¼ ″ (or 31.75 mm) on the basis of the standard pipe diameters available in the industry. Pall ring packing is suggested for use in the column, with an estimated maximum HETP of 0.5 m. As there are five equilibrium stages in the column itself, the column has to be at least 2.5 m high. Copyright / Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Chemical Engineering / unrestricted

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Biodiesel is produced from vegetable oils through transesterification. Triglyceride mixtures extracted from oilseed feedstocks are upgraded by reaction with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst to produce fatty acid esters. This reaction produces a mixture of esters, glycerin, alcohol, and catalyst. Separation of the fatty acid esters (biodiesel) and glycerin can be accomplished through liquid-liquid extraction by water addition. Designing liquid-liquid extraction with water as the solvent requires ternary liquid-liquid equilibrium data for mixtures of water, glycerin, and fatty acid esters. Ternary mixture LLE data have been experimentally measured for several of these systems. Those measured include mixtures with the methyl esters of lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids. Data were collected at atmospheric pressure and 60°C. These ternary systems have been correlated using the NRTL equation. These data and correlation parameters can be used to improve separations efficiency in trans-esterified biodiesel fuels.

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