The application of a new high-temperature reactor to unimolecular decompositions

✍ Scribed by Milton D. Scheer; Walter Braun; James R. McNesby

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 411 KB
• Volume: 113
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(85)80392-4

✦ Synopsis

The heating of Fused silica by the absorption of laser inFrared radiation is the bask For the deagn of a short-residencetime hi&-temperature reactor When a CO* laser LS focused on the exit onfk of a silt= flow tube, a dilute mixture of a reactant gas in hehum is exposed to the high orifice temperature for only about 20 ~9. Dunng such short time intervals, secondary reactions tend to be reduced. This heatmg method was applied to the multichannel decomposition of cyclebutanone. The Formation OF propylene was shown to arise duectly from the cyclobutanonc in a third decomposition channel and not from the secondary isomerization of cyclopropane.