Open AccessOxidation of phenolics in supercritical water. Quarterly report, 1 June 1995--30 November 1995
Author(s) -
P.E. Savage
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/212669
Subject(s) - supercritical fluid , supercritical water oxidation , reactivity (psychology) , chemistry , kinetics , work (physics) , cresol , organic chemistry , chemical engineering , environmental chemistry , thermodynamics , phenol , engineering , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics
Our focus these past two quarters involved experimental work concerning the cresol reaction products and the supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) of some of these products. This work included a quantitative investigation of the products from the SCWO of m- and p- cresol. Hydroxybenzaldehydes were found to be the intermediate products from the oxidation of cresols at supercritical conditions. We studied the destruction kinetics of the hydroxybenzaldehydes in supercritical water. We continued our study of the use of structure --reactivity relationships and discovered that there are factors causing these relationships to not be applicable to our current system of compounds