Reaction pathways in the supercritical water oxidation of typical alcohols

CHEN Zhong; WANG Guang-wei; YIN Feng-jun; YANG Shu; CHEN Hong-zhen; XU Yuan-jian

Volume 42 Issue 03

Mar. 2014

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CHEN Zhong, WANG Guang-wei, YIN Feng-jun, YANG Shu, CHEN Hong-zhen, XU Yuan-jian. Reaction pathways in the supercritical water oxidation of typical alcohols[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2014, 42(03): 343-349.

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CHEN Zhong, WANG Guang-wei, YIN Feng-jun, YANG Shu, CHEN Hong-zhen, XU Yuan-jian. Reaction pathways in the supercritical water oxidation of typical alcohols[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, 2014, 42(03): 343-349.

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Reaction pathways in the supercritical water oxidation of typical alcohols

Key Laboratory of Reservoir Aquatic Environment of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China

Received Date: 2013-08-23
Rev Recd Date: 2013-11-04
Publish Date: 2014-03-31

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Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) experiments of typical alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, isopropanol were carried out by using an innovatively designed lab scale, continuous flow gas sealed wall reactor (GSWR) to explore the reaction pathways and generalities of simple alcohols. The investigation indicates that during the supercritical water oxidation reactions, methanol has a lower conversion than ethanol and isopropanol, and with the main intermediate of formaldehyde. However, the important intermediates for SCWO of ethanol and isopropanol include acetone, acetic acid, acetaldehyde and methanol. Dehydrogenation, decomposition and polymerization reactions associated with many free radicals are involved in the supercritical water oxidation processes of all three alcohols, and three kinds of products produced, which include chemicals with the increased, unaltered and decreased carbon chain compared with the reactants, but generally speaking, the tendency of decreased carbon chain orientation dominates for the SCWO reactions of alcohols, and has the terminal products of carbon dioxide and water.
- supercritical water,
- oxidation,
- alcohol,
- reaction pathway,
- intermediates

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