Effect of pressure in capillary flow of polystyrene

Several corrections possibly required for capillary flow are based on the existence of a linear relationship between the pressure drop along the capillary and the length-to-diameter ratio at a given temperature and shear rate. Recently, the appearance of nonlinearities in this relationship has created some concern as to the cause of this behavior. The occurrence and an explanation of the nonlinearities for polystyrene form the basis of this study. A narrow-distribution, low molecular weight (20,400) polystyrene was tested in eight capillaries at temperatures of 140 and 160°C to initiate the discussion of the nonlinearity in a ΔP (pressure) versus L/D (length/diameter of capillary) plot. The sample exhibits negligible extrudate swelling at all pressures which reinforces the idea that pressure is influencing the flow. The pressure dependence of viscosity is determined using the equivalent expression of the WLF equation derived from free volume theory. Justification for its use is presented. A pressure correction, representing the increased shear stress necessary for flow of the higher viscosity material, is found to linearize the ΔP versus L/D data. A narrow-distribution, high molecular weight polystyrene (670,000) is subjected to a similar analysis at 165°C by using nine capillaries. The situation is quite different, as the high molecular weight sample is not nearly as ideal as the low molecular weight polystyrene.     

Quantification of mass flow effects in capillary SFC

A model for restrictor flow produces accurate predictions of flow that can be used to optimize restrictor design. The relative amplitudes of restrictor and other flows and their effect on efficiency are discussed.     

Flow cell and diffusion coefficient effects in flow injection analysis

The effects of flow cell geometry and nature of the solute on peak shape and dispersion/flow rate relationship are described. Flow cells produce significant effects caused by the finite volume samples by the light beam and the disruption of laminar flow conditions. At low flow rates, the larger the molecules, the greater the dispersion.     

Wettability determined by capillary rise with pressure increase and hydrostatic effects

Capillary rise is the basis of some methods that are widely applied for the determination of contact angles as well as wettabilities of small particles. The equivalent hydraulic radius r(d) in the Classical Washburn equation is assumed to be particle-specific. But it seems that r(d) is not always constant when the type of liquids is different. The new equation with the pressure increment and the hydrostatic effects are theoretically derived based on the Washburn equation, so contact angles of small particles can be measured experimentally independently of r(d). The result shows the validity of the proposed method, and therefore, it becomes possible to accurately measure the wettability of small particles.     

Determination of extracolumn effects in recycle gas chromatography with capillary columns

Extracolumn band broadening in multidimensional systems utilizing flow switching is clearly undesirable. In certain cases, i.e. capillary recycle gas chromatography, the success of an experiment is contingent on the minimization of pre- and post-column dispersion of the peaks. Knowledge of these sources of peak distortion is necessary to optimize the experimental design. A system that extracts statistical parameters from real chromatographic peaks is discussed and used to evaluate band broadening in a capillary recycle experiment.     

扩散系数与内压

本文将Eyring的液体粘性流动分子模型推广到了液体混合物,并用热力学方法导出一个无限稀释溶液中溶质的的放散系数与溶剂内压间的关系式.推导表明,扩散所需的空穴大小适为一个溶质分子所占液体的体积.扩散的活化能不仅取决于溶剂对溶质分子的作用能,而且还与在溶剂中形成空穴的难易程度有关.     

液体的热压力系数及内压

本文从排斥体积要随密度改变的概念出发,修正了原始的Van der Waals理论,并建立了一个计算液体热压力系数的公式 (P/I)_v=R_(ρm)/(1-A_(ρm) B_(ρ~2m))式中ρm=1/V_m是液体的摩尔密度,A和B都是与分子大小有关的两个特性常数。因此,利用Lennard-Jones位能函数中的参数σ_(LJ)便能预测液体在不同温度下的热压力系数及内压值。     

聚合物的热压力系数及内压

本文将我们在前文中提出的修正van der Waals模型, 推广到了液态聚合物中, 从而建立了一个能在宽阔温度范围内准确计算聚合物热压力系数的关系式。式中ν和M分别为聚合物的比体积和链节的摩尔质量, A为聚合物的特性常数。对于本文考察的五种聚合物, 发现它们的链节大小均为聚合物的三个结构单元。     

Modelling of the pore flow in capillary electrochromatography

Pore flow in capillary electrochromatography (CEC) on porous silica particles has been investigated. To that end the migration behaviour of narrow polystyrene (PS) standards dissolved in di-methylformamide (DMF) with lithium chloride in 1 and 10 mmol/l concentration has been measured. These data have been compared to theoretical predictions. The latter were based on a model comprising cylindrical pores of varying diameter as measured experimentally by porosimetry, while the flow in each set of pores was calculated with the expression given by Rice and Whitehead. A reasonable to good agreement between experimental and predicted data was observed, provided it was assumed that pores of differing diameter occur in series. It was found that the flow in pores with a nominal size of 100 A can be considerable compared to the interstitial flow, especially at 10 mmol/l ionic strength. It is concluded that pore flow within porous particles in CEC, of great importance for improved efficiency in both interactive and exclusion type CEC, can be predicted fairly reliably by means of the Rice and Whitehead expression.     

醇类液体的热压力系数及内压

本文测定25-85℃温度范围内正戊醇.正已醇.正庚醇和正辛醇的热压力系数,发现这些醇类液体的内压几乎不随温度而变,本文还将修正的vander waals 模型推广到了醇类液体,与非缔合液体一样,它们的排斥体积亦与密度呈线性关系.但是,模型参数之比B/A^2不再是个常数,而是随醇分子中碳原子数的增多而快速地减小, 这个比值可作为合能力的一种量度.     

溶液的热压力系数及内压

在作者的前一篇论文中,已由修正的Van der Waals模型建立了一个液体热压力系数与密度的关系式并据此得到了一个计算液体内压的公式 2)式中pm是液体摩尔体积V_m的倒数,称为摩尔密度,T是热力学温度,R是通用气体常数,A     

Injection system for fast capillary electrophoresis based on pressure regulation with flow restrictors

A fast automated system for rapid electrophoretic separations in short conventional capillaries employing contactless conductivity detection is presented. The instrument is based on pneumatic pressurization and does not require a conventional pump. The required pressures and flow rates for the different steps of the injection and flushing processes are produced with the help of two flow restrictors. The device is implemented on a microfluidic breadboard with dimensions of ca. 13 × 20 cm and employs miniature valves. Nine inorganic cations, namely NH₄⁺_, K⁺, Na⁺, Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, Mn²⁺, Sr²⁺, Li⁺, and Ba²⁺, could be separated in a capillary of 10 μm inner diameter and 6 cm effective length within 25 s. Following a reduction of the effective length to 4 cm, still five inorganic cations could be separated in a time span of 12 s. The repeatability of peak areas was better than 3.1 % and limits of detection between 3.5 and 5.5 μM were achieved.     

Determination of small drug molecules by capillary electrophoresis-atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry.

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) separations are reported for sulfonamides and benzodiazepines in an uncoated fused-silica capillary. The capillary column exit was connected to a liquid junction-ion spray interface combination coupled to an atmospheric pressure ionization (API) triple quadrupole mass spectrometric (MS) system. On-line UV detection occurred 20 cm from the inlet of the capillary and with the API mass spectrometer (CE-API-MS) after the entire length of the capillary (100 cm). The separations were made using volatile buffers composed of ammonium acetate (15-20 mM) with 15-20% of methanol to facilitate ionization under electrospray conditions. This study showed that the major metabolite of flurazepam in man, N-1-hydroxyethylflurazepam, could be detected and characterized in human urine by CE-UV-MS following the administration of a single oral dose of 30 mg of flurazepam dihydrochloride. The presence of additional flurazepam metabolites in human urine was observed by using the system, suggesting that a combination of UV with MS detection should be useful for metabolic studies. In addition to molecular weight determination of compounds, structural information may be obtained by utilizing online tandem mass spectrometry (CE-UV-MS-MS). This was demonstrated for sulfamethazine where the protonated molecule species was transmitted into the collision cell of the tandem triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Collision-induced dissociation of the protonated sulfamethazine molecule yielded structural information characteristic of the sulfa drug following the on-column injection of 2 pmol of sulfamethazine.     

醇类的缔合作用与热压力系数

测定了甲醇、正丙醇、正丁醇和正癸醇在25-85℃温度范围的热压力系数, 并为正构醇液体建立了一个热压力系数与密度间的通式。这个通式可用来预测正构醇在各种温度下的内压值。用同形物近似法, 本文还获得了正构醇缔合作用的若干重要信息和估计其缔合度的近似方法。     

Determination of cyanide in microsamples by means of capillary flow injection analysis with amperometric detection

A new approach for determining cyanide in microsamples is described. The method is based on capillary flow injection analysis (CFIA) with amperometric detection. The sensing electrode is a silver-plated microdisk electrode, where cyanide can react under formation of a dicyanoargentate complex. A remarkably low mass detection limit of 231 fmol cyanide is obtained for an injection volume of 60 nl. The sample throughput of the CFIA-arrangement is comparable with a conventional sized FIA-system. A practical application is given by analyzing the cyanide (amygdalin) concentration in apple kernels.     

Dynamic capillary coatings for electroosmotic flow control in capillary electrophoresis

Control of the electroosmotic flow (EOF) is critical for achieving optimal separations by capillary electrophoresis. For instance, manipulation of the EOF can yield either high resolution separations or rapid analyses. Dynamic capillary coatings are a simple and cost-effective approach to altering the EOF. The normal EOF can be slowed using buffer additives such as Mg²⁺ and hexamethonium which ion exchange onto the surface silanols to lower the effective wall charge. Alternatively, cationic polyelectrolytes or cationic surfactants can be used to establish a cationic coating on the capillary wall, which results in a reversed EOF. Practical considerations such as pH stability and reproducibility obtainable with an EOF modifier will be discussed.     

Control of electroosmotic flow in nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis by polymer capillary coatings

In aqueous capillary electrophoresis the electroosmotic flow (EOF) can be strongly suppressed or eliminated by coating the capillary surface silanols either by buffer additive adsorption or chemical modification. Hydrophilic coatings, e.g., polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) proved to be most efficient for EOF control in applications like DNA analysis. In nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis (NACE), however, the EOF cannot be totally suppressed with these capillaries and coating efficiency turned out to be solvent-depending. In this paper, fused-silica capillaries with monomeric and polymeric coatings differing in hydrophobicity and chemical properties (vinyl, vinyl acetate, vinyl alcohol and acrylates with different alkyl chain length) were investigated. Besides studying the EOF characteristics with different organic solvents and water, gas chromatography (GC) measurements were carried out to probe the silanol reduction via ether retention and the surface hydrophobicity by retention of nonane. Good correlations between GC results and EOF magnitude could be found. It could be demonstrated that the polymeric coating has to be solvatized by the buffer solvent to reduce the EOF. The PVA coating was optimal for aqueous systems but not effective for some nonaqueous buffers. On the other hand, polyvinyl acetate and polyethyl acrylate as polymeric coatings proved to be optimal to reduce the EOF in NACE.     

Modeling of combined electroosmotic and capillary flow in microchannels

In the present study, theoretical model for the transient response of a capillary flow under the combined effects of electroosmotic and capillary forces at low Reynolds number is presented. The governing equation is derived based on the balance among the electrokinetic, surface, viscous and gravity forces. A non-dimensional transient governing equation for the penetration depth as a function of time is obtained by normalizing the viscous, gravity and electroosmotic forces with surface tension force. A new non-dimensional group for the electroosmotic force, E_o, is obtained through the non-dimensional analysis. This new non-dimensional group is a representation of combined electroosmosis and surface tension, i.e., capillarity. The numerical solution of governing equation is obtained to study the effect of different operating parameters on the flow front transport. In a combined flow, it is observed that the flow with positive and low negative magnitude E_o numbers, the attainment of equilibrium penetration depth is similar to a capillary flow. In case of high negative magnitude E_o numbers, complete filling of the channel is observed. The electrolyte with lower permittivity delays the progress of the flow front whereas a large EDL transports the electrolyte quickly. Higher viscous and gravity forces also delay the transport process in the combined flow. This model suggests that in combined flow the electrokinetic parameters also play an important role on the capillary flow and experiments are required to confirm this electrokinetic effect on capillary transport.