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United States Patent US. Cl. 260-80 5 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An improved method for removing water from an aqueous solution containing a water soluble polymer without experiencing loss of polymer activity. The process is accomplished by the addition of certain metal salts to a water soluble polymer system of two liquid phases comprising water and an organic water-insoluble heat transfer medium.
This application is a continuation-in-part of my copending application Ser. No. 556,581, filed June 10, 1966, and now abandoned.
Polymers of water-soluble monomers have become more and more important with the development of modern technology. Use of water-soluble polymers is widespread in paper, sewage coagulation, textiles and a myriad of other industries. In view of the great utility of water-soluble polymers, considerable effort has been expended in developing suitable methods for preparing these polymers. Among the most successful methods for polymerizing water-soluble monomers to yield watersoluble polymers are those methods which employ a two-phase system comprising an organic heat transfer medium and water as a polymerization medium. For example, British Patent 841,127 discloses a method for polymerizing water-soluble monomers by means of an inverse emulsion. Also, US. application Ser. No. 132,562 discloses a method for polymerizing water-soluble monomers wherein this two-phase system is employed to achieve high molecular weight products. US. Patent 2,982,749 teaches the use of a Water-oil two-phase system for polymerizing a wide variety of water-soluble monomers. There are a number of other polymerization methods using these two components to suspend or emulsify the monomers or in some manner assist in the polymerization of the monomers.
While each of the various methods are different with respect to the method of polymerization, one common feature has been noticed. In each of these methods, the resultant polymer formed by the polymerization method is present in a system which also contains the waterinsoluble heat transfer medium and water. Considerable effort has been expended to process this mixture of polymer and two liquid phases most efiiciently in order to obtain the most useful product possible. One such method employs the use of methanol or other precipitating agents to separate the polymer from the two liquid phases. Polymer is then withdrawn, washed with additional methanol and dried.
However, the above method has been found to possess certain drawbacks which have limited the acceptance of that process in commercial applications. First of all, the amount of methanol necessary to separate the polymer from the two liquid phases is sufiiciently large to require excessive reactor size which increases capital costs to a great extent. Furthermore, the physical han- 3,507,840 Patented Apr. 21, 1970 dling or pumping of polymer, methanol and the various organic heat transfer mediums and water requires a number of operative steps which decreases the number of batches per day which can be produced.
To overcome the deficiencies of the methanol precipitation method for separating polymers from the two liquid phases, the industry has resorted to azeotropic distillation whereby the water and oil are distilled from the mixture, and the oil is recycled until substantially all of the water has been removed. This method allows the use of the full volume of reactor for polymerization, since no addition materials are added once the reaction is complete. Plant operators have found that this method is ideal in reducing capital costs and minimizing the time for a complete cycle of polymer production.
Even though the industry has turned to this azeotropic distillation method, one serious drawback has been found which is becoming more and more important as various methods for utilizing the polymers have been developed. At the outset of the development of the use of watersoluble polymers, the efficiency of these polymers was so superior to prior art materials that relative activity of the polymers was of little concern. However, as the ultimate users of Water-soluble polymers become more selective, those products which perform best in a given application are gaining the largest portion of that market. Accordingly, considerable effort has been expended to optimize the activity of polymers produced bythe various polymerization methods.
It has recently been discovered that the azeotropic distillation step significantly reduces the activity of polymers. It is not unusual to find polymers possessing only 20% or less of their activity after distillation when compared to the activity of the freshly prepared polymer. While the exact reason for this loss of activity is not known with complete assurance, it is thought generally in the industry that activity is directly related to molecular weight. Distillation as set out above is believed to reduce molecular weight in some manner, thereby causing a lessening of activity.
In view of this finding that azeotropic distillation reduces the activity of water-soluble polymers, it would be of great advantage to the art if a method could be developed for maintaining polymer activity, or at least a major portion of their activity. Accordingly, it is a principal object of this invention to provide a method for azeotropic distillation of water from a mixture of a water-soluble polymer, water and an organic heat transfer medium.
Another object of this invention is to provide a process for maintaining the activity of water-soluble polymers during the azeotropic distillation step which does not involve the use of any additional reactor volume.
Other objects will become apparent to one skilled in the art upon the reading of the following detailed description of the invention.
In accordance with the invention, it has now been discovered that water may conveniently be removed from a mixture of a Water-soluble polymer contained in a systemhaving two liquid phases which comprise a Waterinsoluble heat transfer medium and water. A method of this invention comprises the addition of from about 50 p.p.m. to about 2000 p.p.m. of a salt of a metal selected from Groups I-B, II-B, VIB, VII-B and VIII of the Periodic Table to the mixture and thereafter heating the mixture to drive off the water. These salts must necessarily be soluble in at least one of the two phases in order to be effective. It has been found that loss of activity of dehydrated polymers is substantially prevented by this process.
The polymers of a wide variety of well-known ethylenically unsaturated monomers may be processed according to the method described herein. Such monomers include acrylamide, methacrylamide, acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, as well as the water-soluble salts thereof, carboxyethylacrylate or salts thereof, acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile, lower alkyl esters and alkyl ethers of acrylic acids, vinyl alkyl ethers, the polycarboxylic acids such as maleic, fumaric, itaconic, aconitic, citraconic, etc. which may be polymerized alone or copolymerized with the amides of these acids, the alkali metal derivatives (e.g. potassium, sodium and lithium) the alkaline earth metal derivative-s (e.g. magnesium, calcium, barium and strontium) and ammonium salts of these acids and the like. Any of these monomers may be used alone or in combination with other monomers to achieve a polymer or copolymer which may be processed according to the process of this invention. The process described herein may thus be practiced using water-soluble polymers which are derived from a mixture of monomers, wherein a minor portion of these monomers are not water-soluble. Especially preferred for processing are polyacryli acid polymers and salts thereof, polyacrylamide and copolymers of acrylamide and acrylic acid or salts thereof.
The particular water-insoluble organic heat transfer medium also may be selected from any number of suitable compounds. This medium may be any liquid organic compound which is substantially insoluble in water. Especially preferred are benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylene dichloride, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloroethylene, perchloroethylene, heptane, hexane, mixed paraffinic fractions and mixtures thereof. Preferably, this medium should be capable of forming an azeotropic mixture with water.
The amount of water present in the system may vary from essentially no water, which occurs at the end of the distillation, to as much as 50% to 80% water. Again, this is dependent upon the particular polymerization process. The amounts of water and inorganic heat trans er medium, as well as the amount of polymer, have not been found to materially affect the operation of the process of this invention.
As mentioned above, the particular metals which are to be employed in the process of this invention are selected from Groups I-B, II-B, VI-B, VII-B and VIII of the Periodic Table. These metals necessarily must be added in salt form. The salt should be soluble in either the organic heat transfer medium or the water, or both. It has been found that the particular anion of the salt employed is immaterial and does not affect the efficiency of this invention. The anion may be inorganic, i.e. sulfate, sulfite, nitrate, nitrite, chloride, bromide, iodide, chromate, phosphate, carbonate, bicarbonate, etc., or any other anion which will form a waterand/or organic mediumsoluble material. Organic salts such as stearates, maleates, formates, oleates, acetates, palmitates, oxalates, lactates, citrates, tartrates, and the like, are also suitable for use in the instant process, again provided that the salt be soluble in at least one of the two liquid phases. Particularly preferred materials falling within the above class of compounds are copper, nickel, cobalt and silver. The copper, nickel and cobalt are in the +2 valence state, while silver is preferably in the +1 valence state. The amount of the metal which must be added to effectively maintain the activity of the water-soluble polymer during the distillation may range from about 50 p.p.m. to as high as 2000 p.p.m. or higher, based on the polymer solids. A preferred range to be employed in the process of this invention is from about 100 p.p.m. to about 1000 p.p.m.
To illustrate various embodiments of the invention, the following examples are presented by way of illustration. These examples are merely intended to be illustrative, and are not to :be construed as limiting upon the scope of the claims appended herein.
EXAMPLES To demonstrate the efficiency of the process of this invention, a number of experiments were performed. Basically, the procedure was as follows. First, a water-soluble polymer was prepared by polymerizing a water-Soluble polymer in a two-phase system comprising water and toluene. Once the monomer was prepared, a distillation stepwas used to remove the water from the polymer mix ture. The activity of the polymer prior to and after the distillation step was measured to determinethe effect of that step on the polymer characteristics.
In this instance, the particular polymer prepared was a polysodiumacrylate polymer. A 39% solution of sodium acrylate in water was mixed with toluene in a 2:1 ratio of toluene to monomer solution. 2%, based on the toluene, of sorbitan monooleate was added as an emulsifier. Azobisisobutyronitrile was employed as a catalyst. After sufficient time had elapsed to effect essentially conversion of monomer, a sample of the polymer was withdrawn from the reactor and the activity of this polymer was measured. At this time, the polymerized system was then heated to distill off the water by azeotropic distilla tion. The toluene was collected and recycled to maintain sufficient reactor volume. Upon completion of the removal of the originally present water, the activity of the polymer was again measured. This procedure was repeated :1 number of times using various additives employed to maintain the polymer activity. The results of these tests are presented below in Table I.
Brookfield viscosity of 0.5% polymer dissolved in aqueous 0.5 N sodium chloride (cps) Additive to maintain activity .None 10,000 p.p.m. hydroquinone p.p.m. hydroxylamine hydro- The activity of the various polymers recorded in Table I was determined by a measurement of the viscosity of the polymer dissolved in water. While it is admitted that true molecular weight can best be determined by elaborate scientific techniques such as the method known as light scattering, it is well-known that the viscosities of any particular polymer in a standard solution will give excellent indications of the relative molecular weight of each particular polymer, provided that the viscosity measurement is the same in each case. For the purposes of this invention, the viscosity was measured using a Brookfield Viscometer. In each case, sufficient polymer was dissolved in a 0.5 normal aqueous solution of sodium chloride to give a 0.5% by weight solution of the watersoluble polymer. This particular standard for viscosity measurement was arbitrarily chosen in order to set up some valid method for comparing the various polymers. Other methods for measuring the activity of water-soluble polymers are equally valid and have been found to demonstrate with equal force the surprising effectiveness of the process of this invention.
The results of the various experiments, shown above in Table I, clearly demonstrate the efficiency of the process of this invention. In each case, an identical polymerization procedure was followed. The resulting polymers, prior to distillation, were found to have a Brookfield viscosity measured as outlined above of approximately 500 to 600 cps. Run A of Table I represents a distillation with no attempt to preserve activity. Run B shows the effect of the addition of 10,000 p.p.m., based on the polymer, of a known chainstopper, namely hydroquinone. Run C also demonstrates theeffect of another known chainstopping agent employed at a 10,000 p.p.m. addition level, namely hydroxylamine hydrochloride. As is evident, neither of these additives were able to prevent significant loss of activity in the polymer. The remaining runs presented in Table II demonstrates the effectiveness of various metals used in the process of this invention. As is readily apparent, the activity of the polymer after distillation was substantially higher than any of the first three runs. These polymers also demonstrated superior activity in a wide variety of applications using these water-soluble polymers, such as in coagulating a large number of suspended solids.
TABLE II.EFFECT OF METALS Brookfield viscosity of 0.5% polymer dissolved in aque- Ruu ous 0.5 N sodium N o. Additive to maintain activity chloride (cps.)
D 500 p.p.m. copper 1 II 390 E ..100 p.p.m. copper 1 II 385 F ..500 ppm. silver 2 I 503 G .100 p.p.m. silver 2 1-. 397 H 500 p.p.m. nickel 1 II 445 I l00p.p.m. nickel 1 II 350 J 500 p.p.m. cobalt 1 II 425 K 500 p.p.m. nickel 1 II 485 1 Added as sulfate salt.
2 Added as nitrate salt.
Similar results were found using a wide variety of water-soluble polymers contained in a number of organic heat transfer mediums and water. These polymers, when subjected to distillation according to the process of this invention, demonstrated superior activity in the order of 4 to times greater than similar polymers prepared without the protective benefit of the metals according to the process of this invention. These polymers were superior when used as coagulants, paper additives, coatings, adhesives and as other products and processes in which water-soluble polymers are normally employed.
Activity, as used herein, is defined as the ability of the polymer to perform its function when used in a process or as a product where water-soluble polymers are employed. Higher activity means that the polymer is more able to so perform the function.
Obviously, many modifications and variations of the invention as herein set forth may be made without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, and therefore only such limitations should be imposed as are indicated in the appended claims.
What is claimed is:
1. An azeotropic distillation process of removing water from a mixture of a water-soluble polymer selected from the group consisting of polyacrylic acid and salts thereof and copolymers of acrylic acid and salts thereof contained in a system having two liquid phases comprising an organic water-insoluble heat transfer medium and water which comprises: adding to said mixture from 50 p.p.m. to 2000 p.p.m. based on the polymer of a salt of a metal selected from a group consisting of groups I-B, II-B, VI-B, VII-B and VIII of the Periodic Table, said salt being characterized as being soluble in at least one of the two liquid phases, and thereafter heating said mixture to drive off said water, whereby the presence of said metal prevents loss of polymer activity during said heating step.
2. The process of claim 1 wherein said mixture is formed during preparation of said water-soluble polymer.
3. An azeotropic distillation process of removing water from a mixture of a water-soluble polymer selected from the group consisting of polyacrylic acid and salts thereof and copolymers of acrylic acid and salts thereof contained in a system having two liquid phases comprising an organic water-insoluble heat transfer medium and water which comprises: adding to said mixture from p.p.m. to 2000 p.p.m. based on the polymer of a salt of a metal selected from the group consisting of copper (II), nickel (II), cobalt (II) and silver (I), where said Roman numeral refers to the valence state of said metal, said salt being characterized as being soluble in at least one of the two liquid phases, and thereafter heating said mixture to drive off said water, whereby the presence of said metal prevents loss of polymer activity during said heating step, said activity being determined by measuring of the viscosity of 0.5% by weight of said polymer dissolved in an aqueous 0.5 normal solution of sodium chloride.
4. The process of claim 3 wherein said mixture is formed during preparation of said water-soluble polymer.
5. The process of claim 3 wherein from p.p.m. to 1000 p.p.m. of said metal is added.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,990,381 6/1961 Meinel 2602.5 3,097,097 7/1963 Oster et a1. 9635 3,251,814 5/1966 Gentile 260803 3,336,270 8/1967 Monagle 26079.3 3,380,947 4/1968 Galgoczi 26029.6 3,278,506 10/1966 Chamot et a1 26089.7
JOSEPH L. SCHOFER, Primary Examiner S. M. LEVIN, Assistant Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R.
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The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama's Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper's front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news "fairly."
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Same thing for the toad, maybe a simple ejector concept?
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K so I just finished my first ag batch and have some questions with how to make it better next time my recipe was
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The bittering was ok and the flavor was not bad but it's a little light on body...like a little thin. one thing I can think of is that I could not keep my 153 degree mash temp up. Could that be the problem? Also there is very little head. I used 2/3 cups dextrose and waited two weeks but it was still pretty week. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Mash temps are paramount to fermentability and body. If your temps fell low during your mash,say down to 150° or less, then you would definitely have a lighter bodied beer.
As far as head retention, there are many factors that can affect it. The most common would be a dirty glass, or not a "beer" clean glass. Others factors can include poor hot and cold breaks and lack of carbonation.
So keep your temps within range, throw a blanket over your MLT, or find a way to insulate it. Make sure you have a good hot break and chill quickly to get a good cold break. Make sure your carbonation levels are on par approx 5oz/5 gallons, or 1 oz/gallon, that should get you to abut 2.5 volumes. Most importantly make sure your glass is wiped clean. FWIW, I never glean any of my drinking glassware in the dishwasher, and I hand dry and polish my pint glasses right after washing.
What were your gravity readings? I had a similar problem w/ thin body--turns out my mill gap was too wide & my OG was way low.
Thanks for the insight...og was in the high 1050s and fg was around 1015 or so iirc. Got the grains from Austin home brew and asked for them to grain finely but I'd have no frame of reference as to what fine really is I suppose.


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I really didn't have the time to spend on this but measurement is a weakness in our curriculum throughout all courses and plus, they deserved it. This was my big crazy geometry class of 24 students who all hated the class because it was so loud and chaotic. I wanted them to have one good memory of this year and this class and I think I succeeded. I actually got this idea from my English teacher bestie who did it in high school. She hated math but that really stuck with her and I want to do something each year with my students that will stick with them that long as well.
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I really didn't have the time to spend on this but measurement is a weakness in our curriculum throughout all courses and plus, they deserved it. This was my big crazy geometry class of 24 students who all hated the class because it was so loud and chaotic. I wanted them to have one good memory of this year and this class and I think I succeeded. I actually got this idea from my English teacher bestie who did it in high school. She hated math but that really stuck with her and I want to do something each year with my students that will stick with them that long as well.
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Thank you - I stole this as will many others.ReplyDelete
I teach in hs - sophomores (right triangle trig, parabolas and imaginary numbers, circles, piecewise functions, exponents, and statistics [normal curves]) and juniors (matrices, polynomials, conics, logarithms, z-scores) and we are supposed to do this with projects when they do not have the foundation knowledge.
We are to turn their educational process over to them - they talk about TV.
I am struggling to make it relevant. I love math and don't think that conics - or logarithms - are the least bit relevant to someone who will never take calculus and thinks math is not necessary to their future.
Just blowing off steam.
This is an awesome idea! Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
Try turning over their educational process a little bit at a time- while you're still in control. I struggle with relevance too but let's focus on the learning more. How can we teach them to learn- observe patterns, make predictions, think critically, take risks, justify their thinking, etc? That's what remains relevant even when the math is not.
If you try this I would love to hear about it!
Love this idea! It almost makes me wish I taught Geometry!ReplyDelete
What a great idea! I love the idea of giving them something they'll really remember, too. Brilliant.ReplyDelete
Did any pad their totals to make sure there was enough foil?ReplyDelete
From what I noticed, students rounded up on their measurements instead of being precise. That's really the only 'padding' I noticed. I wish I could have graded it on how much foil they used but I don't know how to keep kids from just wrapping it again to use up foil or throwing extra foil away or covering gaps with duck tape.
OMG, I LOVE it!ReplyDelete
You can keep kids from "cheating" by giving them exactly one period to wrap it, with precisely pre-measured foil?
how/from where did you collect the required materials? thinking of doing this on short notice and wondering from where I could gather all the bits . . . perhaps just styrofoam pieces from a craft store . . . hmmReplyDelete
I just asked the teachers in the school and other friends to save theirs for me. I bought the styrofoam balls from Hobby
Lobby and made the cones out of paper. I bought the duct tape and tinfoil from the Dollar Tree.
I am super excited to try this. The reflection is 11 questions and I wondered if I missed one. Also, why DID we divide by 18? I must need to do the project too. Could you please help. Thank you so much.ReplyDelete
I think I counted the first part where they have to list the formulas they used as the extra question.
We divided by 18 because the roll of aluminum foil is 18 inches long. So that would change depending on whatever length of tinfoil you use.
Let me know if you have any other questions. :)
I love this project! I'll link to it on my blog.ReplyDelete
I agree with you on the tough situation with the one student. It can be hard, but you were upfront about the standards for grading and it was up to her to meet those standards and do what she could to get the best grade possible. Knowledge is important, but you also have to pay attention and follow directions. Including a part about how much you contributed to the project is a good idea!
Forgive me if this is obvious, but - was it tricky for your kiddos to wrap the styrofoam balls in foil? I can imagine that particular step might be frustrating. Tips?ReplyDelete
I don't remember that one being any harder than the rest, although most students said the wrapping was the hardest part. I didn't really offer any help on that part. They struggled but they knew it was something they do so they didn't give up. Nothing really sticks out as far as tips except to cut as little as you can.ReplyDelete
How much time did you allow to complete?I think that this is a great idea for a project.This year I have Geometry A & B and Algebra 2. I am always looking for project ideas that can translate to practical knowledge in Geometry.ReplyDeleteReplies
I love this project! How many rolls (estimate) of tin foil did you need for all the groups to do the project?ReplyDeleteReplies
I think I went to the Dollar Tree and bought 8 or 10. I don't really remember but I still have some rolls left over so it didn't even take as much as I was thinking.Delete
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I'm not sure where your comment went but class periods are about 47 minutes long,Delete
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what were your requirements for students finding the surface area for the sphere and cone?ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't know what you mean? I gave them the formula. They had to measure and plug in the numbers to the formula.Delete
I am planning on doing this project with my geometry students and having them create 2d nets for each 3d object once they determine the surface area. Did you do this with your students? If so, how did you have them create the net for the sphere? I'm having a difficult time figuring out a way to introduce this in a way the will be able to comprehend. Thanks!Replies
Did you have them cover each part with tin foil before attaching to the main body part? I was wondering because if covered after it was assembled would make a difference in how much tin foil was needed. I guess you could have them subtract the part of each body part that was covered up by another body part? For example, if the bottom circle of a cylinder is covered when attached, you would have to subtract it from the total surface area of the cylinder. Just clarifying...... I love this idea!ReplyDeleteReplies
I had them cover it after it was assembled. My thinking was that then they should have more than enough which wasn't always the case. =) You can do it however you want of course or even use that as a way to differentiate.Delete
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I've begun a selection process for a rifle in .22 Hornet.
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Left handed bolt action
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Does anyone know of any rifles like this? The Ruger M77 would be awesome, as would a number of Savage rifles, but they're chambered in .223 on up. I'd really like that lil' .22 Hornet. I figure it will save on powder and will do anything I need it to do out to 200 or 300 yards.
It would potentially be a squirrel gun, so I can't have it passing through trees and stuff.
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I've never really latched onto the .17 calibers. Seems a mite explosive to me.
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Ruger makes a 77/22 Hornet with a 5 rnd rotary box mag. CZ makes a nice 22 hornet.
Here you go use the Gun Genie at galleryofguns.com
You got 4 to pick from. 1 CZ 2 Rugers and 1 savage.
the hornet is not a very popular round anymore.
Hornet is not as popular as it once was, but I LOVE it. But to get any kind of accuracy you will need to reload, and case life is short due to the amount of stretching. You will need to trim just about every time.
I think Browning offers a left handed A-Bolt micro in Hornet. NEF has their single shot, as does T/C (I had one and loved it).
Anschutz does not offer a Hornet any more, but they did make them and I'm pretty sure they had them in LH. I have a couple of Anschutz .22's and they are insanely accurate.
Ruger has a bad ass hornet
I had an H&R Handi-Rifle in .22 Hornet for a while, it shot OK but the trigger pull was brutal. Couldn't trip it with my 12 # pull scale. I like the cartridge though, lots of pop out of 6 grains of 2400.
A buddy of mine bought a Ruger 77/22 hornet. After a year of frustration he sent it off to a smith. They tightened up the bolt(2 piece), Re reamed the chamber as it was not spec, bedded the action, lightened the trigger, Lapped the barrel. $250.00 later it finally shoots. He had sent it back to Ruger before. They did nothing and charged him quite a bit.
To bad the CZ does not come in left hand.
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One of my projects is going to be a 77/22Hornet I am then going to send it to a guy in PA and have a shilen barrel put on it chambered in 17 AI Hornet. My buddy here has one and OMG that thing is so accurate it is crazy. I was out shooting and he showed up to the range with it and was fire forming some brass he said here you shoot it cause your eyes are better than mine. With the fire forming loads I was shooting 5 shots that were all touching in a nice little cluster right smack dab in the middle of the target at 100 yards.
You can also just buy a used LH short action Savage/Stevens rifle and change the barrels to a 22 hornet.


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Winds knock out FF powerPublished 11:10am Monday, June 13, 2011
High winds buffeted Fergus Falls and Otter Tail County on Monday morning, leading to power outages around the city and a high wind warning from the National Weather Service.
The winds caused a tree to fall over near Lincoln and Broadway avenues just before 7 a.m., hitting a main power line and knocking out power to around 1,050 customers, according to Otter Tail Power. Power was restored to most customers after about 50 minutes.
"When we have high winds for an hour or more, that's cause for us to have a warning," said Bill Barrett, meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Grand Forks, N.D. office. Barrett reported that wind gusts reached into the 60 mph range in the city.
The warning, which also affected Grant and Wilkin counties, was issued from 7 to 9 a.m., although some of the higher wind gusts happened before 7. The winds then moved east into Hubbard and Wadena counties.
As of 9:15 a.m., the Fergus Falls Public Works Department, said that besides the tree that fell, many branches were down throughout town, but no widespread tree damage was reported.
Winds were strong in the Pelican Rapids area as well, but no major damage was reported. Winds weren't as strong to the east, and no damage was reported in the Battle Lake area.Tags: weather


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Tapping sweetness from birch trees
Couple produces pricey gourmet treat from nature
GRAND MARAIS -- There's the Call of the Wild in the birch syrup produced here.
It doesn't have that saturated sweetness of mass-produced syrups. An apt comparison might be wild game versus store-bought meats. Beyond the wow factor, birch syrup has a sweet tang that lingers, similar to a wine. One taste, and you want to sit in the corner like a bear with a jar of honey.
That taste convinced Rory and Glenda Hart to reconsider their 47 hectares of forest here. Now they view it more as a garden. Last year, they began tapping 1,200 birch trees, under company name the Canadian Birch Company. They plan to eventually tap 4,500 trees.
The Free Press caught up to the Harts during harvest, which was delayed a month by the late spring. "Any day out doing this in the woods is a great day," said Rory, under cool but sunny conditions last week.
The harvest is quite a sight. Their property is dense with birch trees, still leafless as of last week and bleached clean by the sun and snowmelt.
-- Rory Hart of the Canadian Birch Company
Neither do the Harts employ old-fashioned spigots for tapping. It's all intravenous now. Pale blue tubes carry the watery sap down into white buckets on the uneven ground. The tall, narrow trees look almost like patients, in white hospital gowns, hooked up to IV poles.
The pails are emptied every 24 hours. The Harts employ about a dozen people for the month-long harvest. As soon as the birch's catkins begin to flower, the taste of the sap turns and the harvest is over.
The Harts don't tap trees smaller than eight inches in diameter. One can calculate the age of a birch by multiplying its diameter by five. (The diameter is obtained by dividing the circumference by three.) So trees eight inches in diameter are over 40 years old. The trees aren't damaged by tapping at that age. "It's just like giving blood," said Glenda.
Birch trees have a lifespan of 65 to 85 years.
The Canadian Birch Company, 85 kilometres north of Winnipeg, is a mom-and-pop operation -- and it isn't. When you see all the huge holding tanks and machinery, it's obvious this is a major investment for the Harts, who are in their 50s and both still working full time at other jobs: Glenda as a resource teacher at an inner-city school and Rory as a locomotive engineer with CN Rail.
They have large, industrial-scale plastic vats and a syrup shack that looks like a modern dairy inside. The stainless steel evaporator and pasteurizing machines are so reflective, a woman could apply makeup in front of them. The machinery was purchased from a maple syrup equipment manufacturer in Quebec.
It takes 100 litres of sap to make one litre of syrup, or a one per cent ratio versus 2.5 per cent for maple syrup. So a lot of sap is needed and the evaporator has to work overtime. A wood-pellet stove provides even and cheap heat for the evaporator.
That ratio, and its being very labour-intensive, drives up costs. So consumers should be prepared for sticker shock. It retails from $25 to $30 for a 250-millimetre bottle.
It's why the Harts are targeting the upscale, premium market in larger cities such as Toronto and New York, as well as centres in Germany, Italy and France. It's still available locally but Winnipeg doesn't have a large enough market willing to pay that kind of price.
Deals abroad are being negotiated. The Harts just returned from Canada's largest food trade show, put on by SIAL Canada in Toronto, to rave reviews. Their syrup was also a recent finalist in the Great Manitoba Food Fight.
Glenda says they are just scratching the surface of birch's uses. Its leaves make a medicinal tea, and its sap contains xylitol a natural sweetener that has a lower impact on blood sugar than other sugars and is touted as safe for people with diabetes or hypoglycemia.
Perhaps most intriguing is the black chaga mushroom that grows on birch trees that contains betulinic acid, which is a powerful agent to fight cancer cells. Russian novelist and Nobel laureate Alexandr Solzhenitsyn introduced chaga to the West when his main character in the novel Cancer Ward is cured by the mushroom, according to Wikipedia.
Birch syrup can be drizzled on ice cream, cheese cake, porridge, etc., or glazed on pulled pork, steaks and other meats as well as vegetables such as carrots. Amber birch syrup is produced by the trees earliest in the harvest and is sweeter, therefore best for desserts. "Cinnamon and amber syrup is unbelievable," says Glenda. The later, darker syrup works best with meats and salads, etc. For more information see www.canadianbirchcompany.com.
Canadian Birch Company syrup is available at Deluca's, the Almond Tree at The Forks, some Vita Health stores, Organza, the Upper Crust Bakery, Through the Arbor in Pine Falls and the Pine Ridge Farmer's Market in summer.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 17, 2013 A15
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So here's the story: I keep a bucket full of sanitizer for dunking things, and a spray bottle for non-dunkable things.
Unbeknownst to me, last night in the middle of my brew session my wife got out a spray bottle of this stuff, and it was on the counter as well: http://www.greenworkscleaners.com/pr...r/ingredients/
To the best of my recollection, I only used a spray bottle twice:
1) on the lid to my brew kettle while it was chilling
2) on the lid to my fermenter
The first time I honestly don't know which one I used. The second was for sure the GreenWorks, but my wife caught me and I immediately rinsed off the lid and used the correct sanitizer before I sealed my fermentor lid.
I don't think more than a few drops got into my fermentor. I pitched about 350ml of washed S-23 into my fermentor (I'm making a Dortmunder Export), so I'm not super concerned about killing my yeast.
The ingredients are:
* Filtered water
* coconut-based cleaning agent (nonionic surfactant: alkyl polyglucoside)
* corn-based ethanol (ethanol SDA-3C) -
* fragrance with essential oil - I believe this is lemon oil
* biodegradable preservative - this appears to be Kathon which is a biocide
* blue and yellow colorant
Here's the MSDS sheet: http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/down...ear-7-2012.pdf
It says that it's between 1-5% Alkyl polyglucoside.
The only things in there that would appear to be problematic are the Alkyl Polyglucoside, which is a detergent, and the Kathon, which might kill my yeast. From what I can see the detergent is pretty safe to ingest (especially in such miniscule quantities), and the Kathon (in such an even tinier quantity) probably wont' be able to kill off my yeast, since there's such a good healthy population.
I haven't seen any airlock activity yet, but for a lager I wouldn't expect that, since it's down at 50*F.
I am betting it will be fine. The presence of the surfactant may lead to poor head retention in the beer or no head at all. But other than that I doubt a few drops hurt anything.
I added 2oz of carapils to the recipe, which in the past has produced outrageous heads on my beers, so hopefully that will balance out. The first time I used carapils I had bottles start foaming up when I took the cap off, and I thought I had an infection at first.
There's a krausen forming, which I take as a good sign.
If you had gushers it is a sign off an infection or over carbonation, not of a good head.
Krausen is good, yeast are relatively resilient. Im betting you will have a drinkable beer.
Woah, woah, woah... If that "yellow colorant" is Yellow #5, you're doomed!!! You know what yellow #5 does to you, right??
Btw, you're beer will be fine.
It's down to 1.015 already from the OG of 1.054. Holy cow!! The helles this yeast came from took a week to get that far (and has a lot of diacetyl, ugh).
I'm calling this batch ok. I guess this is probably time to raise the temp for a diacetyl rest.


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