Observations on the oxidation of propane

✍ Scribed by E.J. Harris; A. Egerton

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1948
• Weight: 486 KB
• Volume: 1-2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1062-2888
• DOI: 10.1016/s1062-2888(65)80023-5

✦ Synopsis

Analyses of the products of the slow combustion of propane in oxygen by flow and static methods have been made.

Peroxides are found only when the surface does not destroy them too fast to prevent their detection. In the vapor state hydrogen peroxide appears to be mainly present and dihydroxymethyl peroxide in the condensate.

Propylene is formed early in the reaction, possibly from the aldehydes which initiate the reaction.

Methyl alcohol and aldehydes appear to be formed by the same chain process.