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Application 9004
Treatment of Viscous Solutions in a Mettler-Toledo EasyMax™ 102
Heterogeneous reactions involving viscous solutions put high demands on equipment and materials. Columns face high pressure drops and require powerful pumps and durable solid phase particles. Stirred tank reactors do not face the same problem, but the high liquid viscosity and low particle density will have a negative impact on reaction kinetics and require tedious filtration to separate the solids afterwards.
Details
In this application note, blue dye was removed from a highly viscous liquid using a SpinChem® RBR S2 in an EasyMax™ 102 Advanced Synthesis Workstation. The solid phase used to adsorb the dye was Amberlite IRA-900 Cl- ion exchange resin, and the concentration of dye in the liquid over time was monitored in real-time using an in-line UV-Vis probe.