Supercritical fluid Essays

  • What Is Supercritical Fluid?

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    Supercritical fluids are involved in numerous industrial processes especially food industry and have a potentially wide field of new applications. The current applications of supercritical fluid include extraction processes, reaction chemistry and polymerization, food fractionation, waste recycling, soil remediation, cleaning of electronic and optical equipment parts, impregnation, dry powder coating, aerogels, nanotechnology, and crystallization and particle formation of pharmaceuticals and many

  • Oil Extraction Essay

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    to the desired working pressure by using a syringe pump. Then, it is heated to supercritical conditions using a double pipe heat exchanger and reboiler. The temperature is thermostatically maintained and the back-pressure regulator was manually adjusted to remain constant extraction pressure. Extraction is then driven into a separator by decrease in pressure. It is manipulated by second regulator. After the supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, the extracted oil is collected for purification. De-ionized

  • The AMOCO Commercial Process

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    linearly proportional with temperature. This situation happens due to the low dielectric constant nature in supercritical water, making it as a good solvent for non-polar substance like para-xylene. Therefore, it can be concluded that the reaction and yield of the reaction could be adjusted by the modification of reaction temperature. As shown in Table 1, the application of sub and supercritical water, could give a greater yield in terephthalic acid, >50%. However, the industrial implementation always

  • Aerogel Proposal

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    Disclaimer In this proposal, which I own, a physical product “Aerogel” belongs to the real company, Aspen Aerogel Inc. I am completely aware of the fact that they are the owner of basic idea of this product and by writing this proposal, I am only writing as an observer outside the company in order to strengthen the weakness of this product to put it into a better use. I am not part of this company members and this report serves only for educational purposes. All the analyses on this report are written

  • The Chemical Properties Of Water

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    you need to warm one gram of most other fluids by the same amount. This makes water much better for regulating the temperatures of animals and the environment. Water also has a very high heat of vaporization. Converting one gram of cold water into ice requires 80 Calories of energy. Converting the same amount of very hot water into steam requires 540. The high amounts of energy required to change water from its liquid state make water tend to stay a fluid. The process of freezing water involves slowing

  • Calculus and Its Use in Everyday Life

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    everyday situations, such as deciding how much fencing is needed to encompass a designated area. Finding how gravity affects certain objects is how calculus aids people who study Physics. Mechanics find calculus useful to determine rates of flow of fluids in a car. Numerous developments in mathematics by Ancient Greeks to Europeans led to the discovery of integral calculus, which is still expanding. The first mathematicians came from Egypt, where they discovered the rule for the volume of a pyramid

  • Abortion

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    stands for dilation and evacuation. These are preformed up to the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy, and usually take ten to twenty minutes. The way they are preformed is the woman is given absorbent dilators, which open up the cervix and absorb the fluids. After this is left in overnight the woman then is ready for the evacuation stage. The fetus is easily removed with instruments and suction. In the last trimester of the pregnancy abortions are preformed mainly if the woman’s life is in danger or

  • ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) assay and other methods for the evaluation of antioxidants

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    References     10 2. The ORAC assay – a brief introduction 2.1 Theoretical background The oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay is a method for measuring the total antioxidant activity in a biological sample. Biological samples include body fluids of animals and humans (serum, plasma, urine, saliva), plant extracts, agricultural and food products, and pharmaceutical products.[6] The advantage of the ORAC assay is the wide range of applications as it can be used for both lipophilic and hydrophilic

  • Ebola: Global Annihilation?

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    Filovirus, and that is Marburg. Ebola has a 90% death rate, whereas, Marburg is not as deadly. Their long and ropelike shape rather than roundness, as is most other viruses, characterize Filoviruses. Ebola is contracted very much like HIV: bodily fluids such as blood, vomit, sharing needles, and sexual contact. The only difference is that Ebola can be transmitted from the close contact of an infected person, which is the most common means of infection. This is possible because the Ebola virus has

  • Crabs For The Crabber

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    you. The overalls will protect your clothes from getting drenched and muddy. The last thing that you should never leave the dock without is plenty of liquids to drink. I recommend Gatorade or water, but no soft drinks. It is very hot on the boat and fluids are a necessity so that you do no dehydrate. Before you can start crabbing, you need certain materials. The most important is a commercial license to sell crabs. A license can be purchased from the Game Warden in Richmond Hill. You must go early in

  • Groups Opposing Active Euthanasia For Robert Wendland

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    accident. He was in a coma for 16 months. In January 1995, Mr. Wendland came out of the coma, but he remains severely cognitively impaired. He is paralyzed on the right side. He communicates using a "Yes/No" communication board. He receives food and fluids through a feeding tube. During rehabilitation, he has been able to do such activities as grasp and release a ball, operate an electric wheelchair with a joystick, move himself in a manual wheelchair with his left hand or foot, balance himself momentarily

  • Potassium

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    reducing high blood pressure. It also aids in clear thinking by sending oxygen to the brain. This element is crucial to the maintenance of the nervous system and the muscular system. Potassium is an electrolyte, and therefor regulates the balance of fluids inside and outside the cells, including blood. The human body needs potassium to function. The body may become short of potassium in many situations. Excessive physical activity, severe cases of stress, drinking of alcohol or coffee all consume the

  • Skin Grafting

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    including: chronic non healing cutaneous ulcers, temporary coverage to allow for the observation of a possible tumor reoccurrence, surgical correction of depigmenting disorders, and coverage of burn areas to accelerate wound healing and reduce the loss of fluids. The procedure for harvesting and transplanting split-thickness grafts begins with the measurement of the skin defect. A purse-string placed around the defect reduces its size and thus also the size of the graft that must be harvested from the donor

  • John Dalton

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    acts independantly and purely physically not chemically. After six years of tutoring, John resigned to conduct private research while still doing tutoring at 2 shillings a lesson. In 1802 John stated his law of partial pressures. When two elastic fluids are mixed together ( A and B) they dont repel each other. A particles do not repel B particles but a B particle will repel another B particle. One of his experiments involved the addition of water vapor to dry air. The increase in pressure was the

  • Analysis and Evaluation of Neutralisation

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    total amount of energy released in this reaction. This is done by using this equation. 4.2Joules of energy will rise the temperature of 1g of water by 1oC In my experiment there was an temperature increase of 5.1oC. The total weight of the fluids used is 53 cm3. The density of water is 1g/cm3 so 53 cm3 of HCL and NaOH is equal to 53g 53g x 4.2j = 222.6 joules to raise the temperature of the solution by 1oC. The temperature of the solution was raised by 5.1oC so: 222.6 J x 5.1oC = 1135

  • The Four Humors

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    may have only been speculation, but quite a bit of it was due to concentrated observation. Many scientists studied wounds and diseases intensely and one scientist in particular, Empedocles, came to the conclusion that that body consists of four main fluids, or humors. These humors were yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood. If one of these components was out of proportion in the body, disease occurred. The imbalance was called isonomia, an idea which was also proposed by the Greek scientist Empedocles

  • Water, Hydration and Health

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    elimination of waste and secretion, digestion, and is 80% of blood composition. Deborah Boardly, assistant professor of health promotion and human performance at the University of Ohio in Toledo says, "I truly believe that dehydration (insufficient body fluids) may be the number one nutrition problem for athletes—and, possibly, people in general." Boardly goes on to say, "Today we have all these concerns about everything we should and shouldn’t eat—and yet here is this absolutely fundamental substance and

  • Cindy Sherman

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    nursing a baby. She is well dressed in a blue satin dress, small white beads laced through her braided hair, and a tiara atop her head. Her icy, blue eyes stare off to the left with a harsh, cold expression. With her breast aimed high, spewing fluids, in the same direction as she stares, it is difficult to imagine what is going through her head, however it is clear that it is something of an almost vindictive and unforgiving nature. Possibly, she points her breast toward a man who betrayed her

  • chlamydia

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    intercourse and is also transmitted to newborns through vaginal birth by an infected mother. This disease is not passed on by indirect contact, such as a toilet seat. ľ Chlamydia trachoma is biologically active in vaginal and penile secretions and fluids. ľ The usual reservoir for C. trachoma is the mucous membranes of the body found in the genital region, throat, and eyes. ľ The etiological agent of Chlamydia is C. trachomatis which has the following general characteristics: obligate intracellular

  • End-Stage Renal Disease

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    and blood healthy. When both of your kidneys fail, your body holds fluid. Your blood pressure rises. Harmful wastes build up in your body. Your body doesn't make enough red blood cells. When this happens, you need treatment to replace the work of your failed kidneys. Treatment Choice: Hemodialysis Purpose Hemodialysis is a procedure that cleans and filters your blood. It rids your body of harmful wastes and extra salt and fluids. It also controls blood pressure and helps your body keep the proper