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Dibenzyl ether as a probe into the supercritical fluid solvent extraction of volatiles from coal with water
✍ Scribed by Susan H. Townsend; Michael T. Klein
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 433 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-2361
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✦ Synopsis
Thermolysis of dibenzyl ether in water at 374,401 and 412°C resulted in rapid ether hydrolysis to benzyl alcohol, which in turn underwent significant secondary reactions to polymeric material. The primary hydrolysis pathway competed with a slower primary pathway to toluene and either benzaldehyde or benzyl alcohol, as observed in previous DBE pyrolyses either alone or with hydrogen. The temporal variations of observed products' yields suggest that the hydrolysis could permit manipulation of the yields of volatiles recovered from the reaction of coal in supercritical water.