Separation process Essays

  • Membrane Separation Process

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    Introduction Separation and purification of the chemical species from a mixture is a crucial part of nowadays chemical process industry. The latest improvements in membrane separation processes caused the growth of some industries, even some processes. Over the last years, membrane separation processes are utilized from the simple process units to the complex process units like reactors. Basically, when reactors operate with a membrane separation process, it is called as a membrane reactor. Several

  • Compare And Contrast The Separation Of Copper Chloride And Sodium Chloride Mixture

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    Abstract In this experiment the separation of a copper (II) chloride and sodium chloride mixiture was attempted. The main aim was to separate the compounds from eachother while receiving as much of the original mass of both substances as possible - in perfect conditions the original mass will be received after seperation. Many techniques were considered but dissolution, filtration and evaporation proved to be easiest and most reliable in a school environment with school equipment. The copper (II)

  • Evaporating Dish Lab Report

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    Objective: In this lab, students learned the different methods there is to separate substances from one another. They practiced the process of decantation, extraction, filtration, and sublimation. Introduction: Theory: Before being able to isolate the components in a mixture, the students should’ve become familiar with the physical properties of each of the substances. The students were given an unknown sample which has a combination of three different components. These components include: NaCl

  • Gas Chromatography Essay

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    Chromatography means "color writing" literally from the Greek words chroma and graphe. It is a separating technique for a mixture of chemicals, which can be in gas or liquid form, by letting them creep slowly past another substance. There are two important things in chromatography that is it must has one state of matter such as gas or liquid, that is known as mobile phase, moving over the surface of another state of matter which can be liquid or solid that stays where it is that is known as stationary

  • Separation And Purification Of An Unknown/Complex Compound

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    Intro: Separation and purification of an unknown/complex compound can be done by using techniques such as liquid-liquid extraction, solid-liquid extraction, recrystallization, melting point, and thin layer chromatography. In this experiment, these techniques were used to separate excedrin’s components containing caffeine, excedrin, and acetaminophen, Each component has its own chemical properties and characteristics such as polarity, reactivity, and solubility. Knowing how to separate and purify

  • Synthesis Of Zinc Chloride Lab Report

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    Chapter five taught about the separation of mixtures through a number of different processes. These processes use differences in characteristic properties in the elements of the mixture. For example, fractional distillation uses boiling point to separate liquid mixtures. As the liquid boils, the vapor is redirected through a tube into a different test tube and then condenses. The tube is moved into a different test tube after the first fraction concludes boiling, and then the next fraction can

  • Chromatography Lab Report

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    Materials and Methods: For the chromatographic separation of plant pigments, pieces of spinach were ground with acetone to produce a watery extract. A line of extract was applied 1 cm from the bottom of a strip of chromatography paper. The line dried and the extract was reapplied. Once that dried, the paper was placed into a jar containing a small amount chromatography solvent (small enough that the line was not drowned by the solvent) which is made of 1 part acetone and 9 parts petroleum ether

  • Gel Electrophoresis Worksheet

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    Before Gel Electrophoresis, separation of small molecules was impossible. Today Gel Electrophoresis is the primary method of separating molecules. The ability to separate has greatly improved forensics. paternity/maternity tests, and many other useful tests. Prosecutors being able to prove that a crime was committed because of DNA instead of testimony has improved the criminal justice system greatly. Oliver Smithies developed Gel Electrophoresis in 1950. To separate molecules an electric current

  • Gas Chropotry

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    disorders of organic acid metabolism, known as organic acidurias. In other words organic acidurias are also commonly known as insecticide, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. The first applications analysis of GCMS began in the early 1990s. The process of application of GCMS is used in various laboratories, quantitative and qualitative procedures for complex mixture analysis of body fluids and determination of a variety of chemically diverse metabolites in urine. Body fluids like urine, blood, and

  • Gas Chromatography Lab Report

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    Gas chromatography is a helpful technique to separate and analyze volatile compounds. In this experiment, ethanol and pentanol are both nonpolar, so they are separated based on their boiling points. Ethanol has a higher boiling point than pentanol, so it elutes first and its peaks can be seen first on all the chromatograms (Figures 1, 2, 4, and 5). It is useful to be able to separate ethanol and determine its percentage, like in this experiment, in the case of alcohol concentration in beer.

  • Gas Chromatography Abstract

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    Abstract Gas chromatography (GC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is an important technique which is used for the analysis of mixtures. In these instruments the mixture allows mixtures the instrument allows mixtures to separate in each components and determine the amounts of components present in sample. By using GC and HPLC we can analyzed a very small (microliters) sample. The sample which we want to analyze by GC must be volatile. The vaporized sample is allowed to flow in along

  • Miniscale Fractional Unpacked Distillation Lab Report

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    Feras Kaid Chem 2415-43 TA: Rio Assessment 1 Conclusion In this lab, there were 4 different distillations that were performed each with the same end goal to separate the two different organic compounds, cyclohexane and toluene. We used the boiling points of the two compounds to separate them using the following 4 techniques: microscale simple distillation, miniscale simple distillation, miniscale fractional packed distillation, and miniscale fractional unpacked distillation. The three different miniscale

  • Chromatography Lab Report Discussion

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    Introduction The term chromatography actually means colour writing, and signifies a technique by which the substance to be examined is placed in a vertical glass tube containing an adsorbent, the different segments of the substance traveling through the adsorbent at distinctive rates of velocity, according to their degree of attraction to it, and producing bands of colour at different levels of the adsorption column. The substances least absorbed emerge earliest; those more strongly absorbed emerge

  • Fluorene Isolation Lab Report

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    The main objective of this experiment was to isolate the compounds in a given mixture, which was composed of 50% fluorene, 40% o-toluic acid, and 10% 1, 4-dibromobenzene. Techniques of extraction and crystallization was used to perform the separation. The experiment was separated into two parts; each part was to isolate a major compound from one another. The two major compounds (fluorene and o-toluic acid) were also collected. The o-toluic acid was extracted first by using macroscale extraction and

  • Column Chromatography Can Separate The Color In Sodas

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    Did you know that chromatography can separate the different colors in sodas and other colored drinks? The purpose of this experiment is to separate the colors in soda by using column chromatography. There are many different types of chromatography and you can do them using different pieces of equipment and they separate different things besides liquids. There are many different types of chromatography. Some types of chromatography are gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, planar chromatography

  • Capillary Electroosmotic Chromatography Lab Report

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    Quantification and separation of chiral compound are considerable appealing because of the difference in pharmacological and toxicological properties of enantiomers. Sometimes one of the enantiomers demonstrates the desirable effect while the other could be less active or inactive or even have adverse effects.44 Several technique such as HPLC, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), and GC are used for separation of chiral compound. As a complimentary technique, capillary electrophoresis is also

  • Paper Chromatography Lab Report

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    a structure containing other packed material (stationary phase). Different components of the chemical mixture move at different speeds through the stationary phase, and this enables them to separate into characteristic chemical constituents. The separation of the mixture depends on the differential partitioning that exists between the stationary phase and mobile phase. The elusive differences in the partition coefficient of a particular compound lead to differential retention to occur on the stationary

  • Thin Layer Chromatography Lab Report

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    This Layer Chromatograph The objective of the lab was to reveal the active components in commercial analgesic preparations using thin layer chromatography. The thin layer chromatography separation method is a liquid mobile phase that carries the components of the mixture over a solid stationary phase. The stationary phase contains polar hydroxide groups on the surface of the silica gel. A component is separated from the mixture in the mobile solvent when it interacts with the immobile silica gel

  • Separation Of Benzoic Acid Lab Report

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    but the final mass for benzoic acid was 0.70g. These low percentages are a result of errors during the experiment. One source of error was during the first separation of layers. When separating the two layers, some of the top aqueous layer flowed out with the bottom layer. This caused slight impunity in the compounds. In the first separation step, the escape of the clear top layer resulted in less benzoic

  • Separation Anxiety Lab Report

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    Sarah Cunningham Lab Section:10206 Title: Separation Anxiety Objective The goal of this experiment was to use separation methods to make potassium nitrate compound the purest substance it can be. By the end of this experiment, certain separation techniques should be understood for the different sample types. Introduction It is essential for chemists to know how to separate mixtures when needed. This will come in handy when an element is toxic and cannot be mixed with other elements or compounds(Wood