A Study of White-Spirit Vapor Combustion on Pt/Al2O3 Catalyst

✍ Scribed by C. Mihaela Manta; G. Bozga; G. Bercaru; C. Sorin Bildea

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 167 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0930-7516
• DOI: 10.1002/ceat.201000456

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The objective of the work is to investigate the catalytic combustion of white spirit solvent vapors at low concentration in air, typical for depollution applications, on a commercial catalyst, Pt/γ‐Al~2~O~3~ (0.5 wt‐% Pt). To study the influence of the main variables on the process kinetics, experiments were performed under various operating conditions (temperature domain: 150–350 °C; flow rates: 125–250 mL min^–1^; white spirit concentrations: 220–260 ppmv). The stoichiometry and kinetics of the vapor combustion was described globally by using a pseudo‐compound, representing the average molecular weight and the carbon/hydrogen ratio of the mixture. Experimental data were reasonably well correlated by a first order rate expression with respect to the apparent concentration of the lumping pseudo‐component.