Good Reporting Practice for Thermophysical and Thermochemical Property Measurements (IUPAC Technical Report).

Scientific projects frequently involve measurements of thermophysical, thermochemical, and other related properties of chemical compounds and materials. These measured property data have significant potential value for the scientific community, but incomplete and inaccurate reporting often hampers their utilization. The present IUPAC Technical Report summarizes the needs of chemical engineers and researchers as consumers of these data and shows how publishing practices can improve information transfer.

Different families of volatile organic compounds pollution control by microporous carbons in temperature swing adsorption processes.

In this research work, the three different VOCs such as acetone, dichloromethane and ethyl formate (with corresponding families like ketone, halogenated-organic, ester) are recovered by using temperature swing adsorption (TSA) process. The vapors of these selected VOCs are adsorbed on a microporous activated carbon. After adsorption step, they are regenerated under the same operating conditions by hot nitrogen regeneration.

Recovery comparisons--hot nitrogen Vs steam regeneration of toxic dichloromethane from activated carbon beds in oil sands process.

The regeneration experiments of dichloromethane from activated carbon bed had been carried out by both hot nitrogen and steam to evaluate the regeneration performance and the operating cost of the regeneration step. Factorial Experimental Design (FED) tool had been implemented to optimize the temperature of nitrogen and the superficial velocity of the nitrogen to achieve maximum regeneration at an optimized operating cost. All the experimental results of adsorption step, hot nitrogen and steam regeneration step had been validated by the simulation model PROSIM.

Hazardous dichloromethane recovery in combined temperature and vacuum pressure swing adsorption process.

Organic vapors emitted from solvents used in chemical and pharmaceutical processes, or from hydrocarbon fuel storage stations at oil terminals, can be efficiently captured by adsorption onto activated carbon beds. To recover vapors after the adsorption step, two modes of regeneration were selected and could be possibly combined: thermal desorption by hot nitrogen flow and vacuum depressurization (VTSA). Because of ignition risks, the conditions in which the beds operate during the adsorption and regeneration steps need to be strictly controlled, as well as optimized to maintain good performances.