Simultaneous photochemical generation of ozone in the gas phase and photolysis of aqueous reaction systems using one VUV light source

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.M. Hashem ◽  
M. Zirlewagen ◽  
A. M. Braun

A more efficient use of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation produced by an immersed Xe-excimer light source (172 nm) was investigated for the oxidative degradation of organic pollutants in aqueous systems. All emitted VUV radiation from one light source was used in two simultaneous but separate photochemical reactions: (1) photochemical generation of ozone by irradiating oxygen in the gas phase and (2) photolysis of the aqueous reaction system. The gas stream containing the generated ozone is sparged into the reaction system, thus enhancing the oxidative degradation of organic pollutants. The photochemically generated ozone in the gas phase was quantitatively analyzed, and the kinetics of the degradation of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) and of the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) were determined under different experimental conditions. The results show that the rates of degradation of the substrate and of the DOC decrease in the order of the applied processes, VUV/O3 > O3 > VUV.

Author(s):  
Fouad Fethi ◽  
Juan López-Gejo ◽  
Martin Köhler ◽  
André M. Braun

AbstractThe vacuum ultraviolet (VUV-) photochemical oxidation of dimethylamine in the gas phase was investigated in the presence and absence of molecular oxygen and water vapor. Primary intermediate products of the oxidative degradation were identified by the combination of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS), and the product distribution was determined for different experimental conditions. The evolution of the substrate concentration was followed by on-line gas chromatography. The production of CO


Author(s):  
Domenik Schleier ◽  
Engelbert Reusch ◽  
Marius Gerlach ◽  
Tobias Preitschopf ◽  
Deb Pratim Mukhopadhyay ◽  
...  

The reaction kinetics of the isomers of the methylallyl radical with molecular oxygen has been studied in a flow tube reactor at the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) beamline of the Swiss Light Source storage ring.


1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (20) ◽  
pp. 3275-3281 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Reid ◽  
D. J. Le Roy

A quantitative study has been made of the reaction of ethyl radicals with molecular hydrogen in the gas phase in the temperature range 240 to 320 °C. The mercury (63Pi) photosensitized decomposition of hydrogen in the presence of ethylene was used to generate ethyl radicals. Extinction coefficients for the absorption of 2537 Å by mercury vapor were measured and Beer's law was shown to be obeyed under the experimental conditions used. The corrections required to allow for the nonuniformity of radical concentrations in the cell were small. After delineating the experimental conditions necessary to minimize secondary reactions, the rate constant (cm3 mole−1 s−1) for the reaction C2H5 + H2 = C2H6 + H was found to be given by log10k = 12.57 − 13.7/θ. Experiments in the presence of added carbon dioxide showed the absence of hot radical effects at the working pressure of 92 Torr of hydrogen.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1013-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haingo L. Andriampanarivo ◽  
Martin Köhler ◽  
Juan López Gejo ◽  
Thomas Betzwieser ◽  
Benny C. Y. Poon ◽  
...  

Based on kinetic data and intermediate products of oxidation, reaction pathways of the oxidative degradation of gaseous thiophene are discussed.


1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1442-1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Descamps ◽  
Wendell Forst

The pyrolyosis of CF3OOCF3 (BTMP) was studied in the gas phase from 5 to 100 Torr BTMP pressure and between 197 and 244 °C in a clean nickel reactor by the static method. CF3O radicals, due to the initial split[Formula: see text] were scavenged by SO3F radicals produced in situ by the thermal decomposition of their dimer S2O6F2. Under these conditions, CF3OOSO2F is the only product of BTMP pyrolysis, as shown by gas chromatographic analysis. Thus the BTMP pyrolysis becomes fully inhibited and the rate of accumulation of CF3OOSO2F is a measure of k1. The rate constant k1 turns out to be pressure-insensitive under the experimental conditions, from which it is inferred that k1 is actually k1∞, the limiting high-pressure unimolecular rate constant for reaction 1. Its temperature dependence yields the result[Formula: see text]This result is compared with other values of the O—O bond dissociation energy in BTMP. The experimental expression for k1 ∞ is used to construct the pressure falloff of k1 following the procedure of Forst. The calculation confirms that falloff begins only below 10 Torr.


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