US3472627A - Method and apparatus for separating number of samples displaced in a tubing of small internal diameter - Google Patents

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US3472627A
US3472627A US538632A US3472627DA US3472627A US 3472627 A US3472627 A US 3472627A US 538632 A US538632 A US 538632A US 3472627D A US3472627D A US 3472627DA US 3472627 A US3472627 A US 3472627A
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  • a first medium to be evaluated such as amino acids, contains absorbed therein a second medium and is led towards an evaluating device in a tubing of small internal diameter passing a reactor.
  • the pressure and/or heat conditions in the tubing within the reactor are adjusted to release the absorbed second medium from the first medium by evaporation or by liquefying to separate segments of the first medium before reaching the evaluating device.
  • This invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for separating samples of a medium delivered through a tubing of small internal diameter for analyzing, dispensing or the like in an accordingly operating device.
  • the sample to be analyzed is according to one embodiment pumped by a pump into a tubing of small internal diameter and the individual samples in the tubing are separated by air bubbles introduced into said tubing by the pumping action of another pump so that air divides the fluid stream into a segmented fluid stream composed of alternate segments of liquid and air.
  • a second medium capable to be adsorbed in the displaced first medium is used for separation of samples.
  • the second medium is according to this invention caused to be released from said first medium during its passage through a tubing, creating therein alternate segments of samples of the first medium and segments of the second medium which prevent or at least substantially reduce mixing of different segments of samples of the first medium.
  • tubing of small internal diameter indicates a tubing which is capable 3,472,627 Patented Oct. 14, 1969 to retain intact bubbles or balls of the second medium separating samples of the first medium in the course of displacement of the media.
  • the upper limit of the internal diameter of such a tubing is up to about one eighth of an inch.
  • liquid samples which had to be analyzed have been deliberately deaerated in order to prevent any creation of air bubbles which are segregated particularly at parts of the tubing maintained at elevated temperatures.
  • the treated samples of a fluidal medium to be evaluated and containing absorbed air or some other inert gas are not deaerated, and bubbles of air or gas are released in said tubing when the temperature is raised or the pressure reduced so that the stream of liquid is divided into a number of segments separated by air or gas bubbles.
  • gaseous samples can be separated by balls or bubbles of the second medium which liquefies in case pressure is increased or temperature is reduced.
  • FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates the method of the present invention in its simplest embodiment applying a gaseous medium for separation of samples of a liquid medium using heat for the release of gas bubbles.
  • FIG. 2 is an alternative arrangement using in addition reduced pressure to release gas bubbles
  • FIG. 3 is a similar arrangement
  • FIG. 4 shows a pressure reducing valve used for this urpose.
  • FIG. 5 shows a space of reduced pressure connected to the outlet of the tubing
  • FIG. 6 shows the introduction of an evaluating reagent to the outlet of a chromatographic column.
  • a liquid having air or inert gas absorbed is pumped by the pump 3 through the tubing 4 of small internal diameter, the part 1 of said tubing which is immersed in a bath 2 contained in a reactor vessel heated to a temperature at which bubbles of air or gas absorbed in the liquid are released.
  • the thus separated parts of the liquid are displaced by Way of an outlet tubing 6 to an evaluating device 5.
  • the desorption eflect of the bath is increased by placing the pump 3 below the part 1 of the tubing, thus creating reduced pressure at the input to part 1 of the tubing with respect to the pressure at the outlet of the pump 3 due to the hydrostatic elfect.
  • said reduced pressure between the input and output of part 1 of the tubing is achieved by placing the outlet 7 of the tubing 7 behind the evaluating device 5 deeper than the part 1 of the tubing.
  • a reduction in pressure causing desorption of gas bubbles is caused by a pressure reducing valve 8 in tubing 4 behind the pump 3 whereas in front of the pump 3 conditions prevail at which desorption does not take place.
  • the outlet tubing 7 behind the evaluating device 5 is connected to a space 9 wherein reduced pressure is maintained.
  • FIG. 6 shows schematically the application of the object of this invention in connection with a chromatographic analyzer of a liquid.
  • the liquid to be analyzed for instance a mixture of amino acids is pumped by the pump 3 to the chromatographic column 11 containing reagents which cause the difierent phases of the mixture to be displaced in the chromatographic column 11 at different rates.
  • the evaluating reagent for example ninhydrin is added to the outlet conduit of the chromatographic column 11 by means of the pump 12 to the junction 10.
  • the separated amino acids together with the evaluating reagent proceed in tubing 4 to part 1 of the tubing immersed in the bath 2, where bubbles are released; these bubbles divide the up to this moment continuous stream of liquid into a number of segments and prevent in the course of the subsequent passage any mixing of the different phases of the liquid separated in the chromatographic column 11.
  • the thus separated phases are evaluated in the evaluation device 5.
  • the part 1 of tubing 4 Where the desorption of bubbles takes place, is arranged as close as possible to the outlet of the chromatographic column 11 in order to reduce to the possibly highest degree any decrease of concentration gradients in the liquid leaving the chromatographic column 11.
  • the method according to this invention can be applied in other cases, where a number of samples have to be in succession analyzed, for instance difierent samples of urea or blood or for continuous checking of certain conditions in the course of some operation.
  • gaseous media can be treated in a similar manner by releasing for instance in part 1 of the tubing 4 balls of water which were prior evaporated and which separate the different samples of the gaseous medium.
  • the bath 2 has to operate at a reduced temperature or at an increased pressure.
  • a rather important contribution of this invention is the omission of the deaeration of liquids prior to their analyzing. Up to the present the formation of bubbles in the course of heating a liquid which had to be performed prior to its analysis has been rather troublesome and the removal of air absorbed in the liquid generally not sufficiently effective. According to this invention the desorption of gases which particularly takes place in the course of heating of the analyzed liquid is utilized for separating successive samples, so that the up to now troublesome operation rendering a rather poor effect is not required anymore.
  • the method of segmentizing samples of a first fluid medium to be evaluated comprising the steps of absorbing a second fluid medium in the first fluid medium, passing the thus combined fluid media through a tubing of small internal diameter, a portion of the tubing being immersed in a heated reactor, and selectively adjusting at least one of the pressure and the heat conditions existing in the portion of the tubing within the reactor to release the second medium from the first medium, whereby the second medium forms separating segments between resulting segments of the first medium, and the thus separated segments may be passed into the evaluating device.
  • a device to separate samples of a first fiuidal medium, containing an absorbed second fiuidal medium for evaluating in an evaluating device comprising in combination a source for said first medium containing an absorbed second medium; pumping means and an adjoining tubing of small internal diameter carrying said media through a heat reactor into said evaluating device; an exit tubing leading from said evaluating device; and means to selectively adjust at least one of the pressure and heat conditions in the tubing within the reactor to release the second medium from the first medium whereby the second medium forms separating segments between resulting segments of the first medium, and the thus separated segments may be passed to an evaluating device.

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