Thermal destruction of benzene.

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Chemosphere. 2001 Feb-Mar;42(5-7):591-9.

Thermal destruction of benzene.

Schöbel A1, Class AG, Krebs L, Braun-Unkhoff M, Wahl C, Frank P.

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The thermal destruction of benzene in methane/air flue gas is studied experimentally using an atmospheric
laminar flow reactor in laboratory scale. The reactor is operated at four different fuel equivalent ratios (phi = 0.06,
0.1,0.5, 3.7), and temperatures in the range from 850 to 973 K and realises a residence time of 5 s. Stable-
species concentrations are measured by gas chromatography (GC) and high-pressure liquid chromatography
(HPLC), where phenol, acetylene, formaldehyde, acrolein, methane and acetaldehyde are the major hydrocarbon
products besides CO and CO2. The augmentation of the temperature from 850 to 973 K increases the benzene
conversion rate from 55% to 99%. The experimental results for one fuel equivalent ratio (phi = 0.5) are compared
to the benzene model proposed by Emdee et al. (J. Phys. Chem. 92 (1992) 2151-2161). A fair agreement is
observed for the benzene consumption and the CO production throughout the temperature range considered
here. The small hydrocarbons are not very well matched, which requires further research on the sub-models. Our
experimental results on laboratory scale provide a database for the modelling of benzene oxidation in waste
incinerators.

PMID: 11219684 [PubMed]

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