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FTIR Diffuse Reflectance Quantitative Analysis of Nitric Acid Oxidation of Paraffin Oil Supported on a Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Substrate

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2007
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Nitric acid can drive oxidation reactions of paraffins producing nitroparaffins and other oxidation products. Presented here is a study on the aqueous liquid phase nitric acid oxidation of paraffin oil supported on PTFE particles. The goals ofthis study are: 1. To evaluate the effectiveness of nitric acid in removing paraffin oil from PTFE particle surfaces. 2. To evaluate the effects of nitric acid driven reactions with paraffin oils under varying reaction conditions. 3. To evaluate FTIR Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, DRIFT, as a tool to accomplish the quantitative analysis of this process. These goals have been achieved employing analysis by FTIR Diffuse Reflectance, which provides a ready means of quantifying paraffin removal. Paraffin removal generally increases with time, temperature and nitric acid concentration and can be described by known kinetics including activation energy and region of unity relationship between the log of the rate constant verses Hammett acidity function.
Title: FTIR Diffuse Reflectance Quantitative Analysis of Nitric Acid Oxidation of Paraffin Oil Supported on a Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Substrate.
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Name(s): Smith, Larry
Carraher, Charles E., Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 2007
Date Issued: 2007
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 118 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Nitric acid can drive oxidation reactions of paraffins producing nitroparaffins and other oxidation products. Presented here is a study on the aqueous liquid phase nitric acid oxidation of paraffin oil supported on PTFE particles. The goals ofthis study are: 1. To evaluate the effectiveness of nitric acid in removing paraffin oil from PTFE particle surfaces. 2. To evaluate the effects of nitric acid driven reactions with paraffin oils under varying reaction conditions. 3. To evaluate FTIR Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, DRIFT, as a tool to accomplish the quantitative analysis of this process. These goals have been achieved employing analysis by FTIR Diffuse Reflectance, which provides a ready means of quantifying paraffin removal. Paraffin removal generally increases with time, temperature and nitric acid concentration and can be described by known kinetics including activation energy and region of unity relationship between the log of the rate constant verses Hammett acidity function.
Identifier: FA00000831 (IID)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Includes bibliography.
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Subject(s): Free radicals (Chemistry)
Reflectance spectroscopy
Chemistry, Analytic--Quantitative
Oxidation
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