Kinetics of phenol oxidation in supercritical water

This paper reports tht aqueous solutions of phenol were oxidized in a flow reactor at temperatures between 300 and 420{degrees}C (0.89 {le} T{sub r} {le} 1.07) and pressures from 188 to 278 atm (0.86 {le} P, {le} 1.27). These conditions included oxidations in both near-critical and supercritical water. Reactor residence times ranged from 1.2 to 111 s. The initial phenol concentrations were between 50 and 330 ppm by mass, and the initial oxygen concentrations ranged from 0 to 1,100% excess. The oxidation experiments covered essentially the entire range of phenol conversions. Analysis of the kinetics data for phenol disappearance using a combination of the integral method and the method of excess revealed that the reaction was first order in phenol and 1/2 order in oxygen, and influenced by pressure. The global reaction order for water was taken to be nonzero, and the global rate constant was assumed to be independent of pressure so that the only effect of pressure was to alter the water concentration and hence the reaction rate.

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