scholarly journals A minimal predictive model for better formulations of solvent phases with low viscosity

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Pleines ◽  
Maximilian Hahn ◽  
Jean Duhamet ◽  
Thomas Zemb

The viscosity increase of the organic phase when liquid–liquid extraction processes are intensified causes difficulties for hydrometallurgical processes on industrial scale. In this work, we have analyzed this problem for the example of N,N-dialkylamides in the presence of uranyl nitrate experimentally. Furthermore, we present a minimal model at nanoscale that allows rationalizing the experimental phenomena by connecting the molecular, mesoscopic and macroscopic scale and that allows predicting qualitative trends in viscosity. This model opens broad possibilities in optimizing constraints and is a further step towards knowledge-based formulation of extracting microemulsions formed by microstructures with low connectivity, even at high load with heavy metals.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Jirasek ◽  
Jakob Burger ◽  
Hans Hasse

The conceptual design of fluid separation processes is particularly challenging if the considered mixtures are poorly specified, since classical thermodynamic models cannot be applied when the composition is unknown. We have recently developed a method (NEAT) to predict activity coefficients in such mixtures. It combines the thermodynamic group contribution concept with the ability of NMR spectroscopy to quantify chemical groups. In the present work, we describe how NEAT can be applied to equilibrium stage simulations of liquid–liquid extraction processes with poorly specified feeds. Only a single 13C NMR spectrum of the feed is needed for predicting the distribution of a target component for different process parameters, such as temperature or extracting agent. The predictions from several test cases are compared to results that are obtained using the full knowledge on the composition of the feed and surprisingly good agreement is found.


1996 ◽  
pp. 551-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Carneiro-Da-Cunha ◽  
E. P. Melo ◽  
M. J. Sebastião ◽  
M. R. Aires-Barros ◽  
J. M. S. Cabral

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (9) ◽  
pp. 6077-6087
Author(s):  
Paul J. Usinowicz ◽  
Bruce F. Monzyk ◽  
H. Nicholas Conkle ◽  
J. Kevin Rose ◽  
Satya P. Chauhan

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 7339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Déjugnat ◽  
Sandrine Dourdain ◽  
Véronique Dubois ◽  
Laurence Berthon ◽  
Stéphane Pellet-Rostaing ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (32) ◽  
pp. 10906-10914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Weßling ◽  
Michael Trumm ◽  
Andreas Geist ◽  
Petra J. Panak

N,N′-Dimethyl,N,N′-dioctylhexylethoxymalonamide (DMDOHEMA) is used to separate An(iii) and Ln(iii) from fission products in several liquid–liquid extraction processes that aim at recycling actinides.


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