A processing unit for a liquid washing medium contaminated with sulphur oxides and/or nitrogen oxides, has an evaporation stage for concentrating the active components of the washing medium by an evaporator and/or by a heat exchanger, and has a collecting tank connected to the evaporator and/or to the heat exchanger. The collecting tank is configured as a crystallizer for removing sulfur oxides from the washing medium by crystallization of a sulphate, in particular of potassium sulphate. A separating device for carbon dioxide has a corresponding processing unit, and a method for processing a washing medium contaminated with sulphur oxides and/or nitrogen oxides uses a corresponding processing unit.

A process for preparing solid sodium carbonate monohydrate from a solution of sodium carbonate is described.

A process for increasing the extraction yield of vanadium oxides from the spent liquor generated in the Bayer process for the recovery of alumina from bauxite, with the use of a water-soluble polymer. The water-soluble may be a polysaccharide or a synthetic polymer, which may include at least one non-ionic and/or anionic and/or cationic hydrophilic monomers.

A process for removing lactic acid from an aqueous lactic acid-containing magnesium chloride solution, the weight ratio of magnesium chloride to lactic acid in the aqueous lactic acid-containing magnesium chloride solution being at least 1:1, the process including the steps of subjecting the aqueous lactic acid-containing magnesium chloride solution to an evaporation step, resulting in the formation of a slurry of MgCl2.Math.MgL2.Math.4H2O in an aqueous magnesium chloride solution, then subjecting the slurry to a solid-liquid separation step, to separate the solid MgCl2.Math.MgL2.Math.4H2O from the aqueous magnesium chloride solution, resulting in the removal of lactic acid from the aqueous lactic acid-containing magnesium chloride solution in the form of MgCl2.Math.MgL2.Math.4H2O. The process makes it possible to efficiently remove lactic acid from aqueous lactic acid-containing magnesium chloride solutions, resulting in magnesium chloride solutions with a low lactic acid content which can be further processed as desired.

A system and method for cleaning of a forced-circulation evaporative crystallizer. The crystallizer is used to produce salt solids and includes a circulation pump, a heat exchanger, a separator, and a vapor processor. Solids deposits accumulate during salt solids production within at least one of the circulation pump, heat exchanger, and separator. A solids deposits metric representative of an amount of the accumulated solids deposits is measured. The solids deposits metric is determined to deviate from a baseline by at least a cleaning threshold. Certain determinations are made based on the solids deposits metric: determining a cleaning mode and at least one of a type of cleaning solution and a duration for which at least one of the circulation pump, heat exchanger, and separator is to be cleaned. At least one of the circulation pump, heat exchanger, and separator is then cleaned in accordance with those determinations.

A process and a chemical production unit for producing crystalline ammonium chloride in the presence of a crystallization additive are provided, wherein the process comprises the steps a) reacting NH.sub.3 and HCl by feeding NH.sub.3 and HCl to an aqueous solution of ammonium chloride; b) crystallizing ammonium chloride from the aqueous ammonium solution obtained in step a), and c) separating the crystalline ammonium chloride, wherein energy required in step b) is generated in step a). The crystalline ammonium chloride, obtainable by said process, is suitable as a flavoring agent, as an animal feed additive, as an additive for a cosmetic composition or as an additive for a pharmaceutical composition.

A separator for salts contained in a solution which is brought under supercritical conditions, with at least one salt filter which can retain therein salts initially contained in the solution and which are precipitated, including those in the form of micro- or nanoparticles. The operation of the salt separator makes it possible, if necessary, to heat the solution for conversion to a temperature ensuring the precipitation of the salts and their retention within suitable filters and then to separate the solution for conversion into a salt-depleted stream which is discharged from the separator and directed to a conversion reactor, in particular a gasification reactor, and, if appropriate, into a stream loaded with salts to be extracted in the form of a brin.

Payload systems for processing chemical substances under various gravity levels, such as hypergravity and/or microgravity. The payload systems may include a hypergravity thermal payload system configured to enable melt or cooling of a sample under hypergravity. Alternatively, or in addition, the payload systems may include a gravity-independent thermal payload system for enabling melt or cooling of a sample under various gravity levels, such as microgravity. Alternatively, or in addition, the payload systems may include a hypergravity crystallization payload system configured to enable crystallization of a chemical substance under hypergravity. Alternatively, or in addition, the payload systems may include a gravity-independent crystallization system configured to enable crystallization of a chemical substance in various gravity levels, such as microgravity.

Techniques according to the present disclosure include capturing carbon dioxide from a dilute gas source with a CO.sub.2 capture solution to form a carbonate-rich capture solution; separating at least a portion of carbonate from the carbonate-rich capture solution; forming an electrodialysis (ED) feed solution; flowing a water stream and the ED feed solution to a bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED) unit; applying an electric potential to the BPMED unit to form at least two ED product streams including a first ED product stream including a hydroxide; and flowing the first ED product stream to use in the capturing the carbon dioxide from the dilute gas source with the CO.sub.2 capture solution.

A production system, production method and application of general-purpose high-purity chemicals are disclosed. The production system includes a raw material tank, and an adsorption system, a crystallizer, a first light-impurity removal tower, a first heavy-impurity removal tower, a second light-impurity removal tower, a motorized tower, a second heavy-impurity removal tower, a vapor permeation device, a membrane separation system and a filling system connected with the raw material tank in sequence. The high-purity chemicals produced by the above system have high purity and excellent quality. Compared with the prior art, the system and method designed by the present disclosure have more pertinence, integrity, progressiveness, energy-saving, precision, high safety coefficient and great industrial promotion value. And the products produced are of excellent quality, which can meet the standards applied to the manufacturing of integrated circuit electronic components and meet the high-end needs of the semiconductor industry market.