Instead of the chlorofluorocarbon specified as the ozone-depleting substance, a chlorinated organic compound, hydrocarbon, alcohol, etc. are used as an alternative washing solvent, and they are used as a mixed solvent in many cases. Therefore, adsorption operation of binary systems is needed. Furthermore, since azeotropic may happen, in the case of the design of a solvent recovery system and op...

Low volatility solvent/non-solvent mixtures were utilized to engineer the structure of poly(3-alkylthiophene) (P3AT) organogels. The ratio of solvent to poor-solvent was manipulated to systematically control the kinetics of self-assembly. Specific solvent mixtures were utilized to produce similar gelation kinetics with polymers of differing alkyl chain length. Simultaneous small angle neutron s...

The presented work addresses the integrated design of solvent molecules with separation and reactive-separation process systems. The proposed design philosophy relies on extensive structural optimization both at the solvent and process synthesis stage and allows the identification of solvent molecules based on process performance criteria. It employs multi-objective optimization technology in o...

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), ultrasonic extraction (USE), and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) were compared with the well known Soxhlet extraction for the extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) from the XAD-2 resin which was used to adsorb PCDDs in the atmosphere. XAD-2 resin spiked with five PCDDs was chosen as a sample. The o...

The correlation between solvatochromy and the solvent-polarity-dependent rate constant k, of thermal cis-trans isomerization (solvatokinetic behavior) has been investigated for a stilbazolium-type merocyanine and an amphiphilic analogue in a polarity series of eight neat solvents (protic and aprotic). At room temperature k,, varies over 7 orders of magnitude, decreasing with increasing solvent ...

This study proposes a new mechanism to understand the transport of solvents through nanostructured membranes from a fundamental point of view. The findings are used to develop readily applicable mathematical models to predict solvent fluxes and solute rejections through solvent resistant membranes used for nanofiltration. The new model was developed based on a pore-flow type of transport. New p...

Background & Aims: In this study, using a liquid-liquid microextraction method for pre-concentration trace amounts of aflatoxins, the amount of Aflatoxins B1 and B2 in powdered milk was determined. Determination of aflatoxins was done by using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with fluorescent detector. Method: Samples were extracted by immunoaffinity column (IAC) clean-up, and the...

We analyze the problem of the helix-coil transition in explicit solvents analytically by using spin-based models incorporating two different mechanisms of solvent action: explicit solvent action through the formation of solvent-polymer hydrogen bonds that can compete with the intrinsic intra-polymer hydrogen bonded configurations (competing interactions) and implicit solvent action, where the s...