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Catalytic Deep Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compound Toluene over CuO/γ-Al2O3 Catalysts at Lower Temperatures (CuO/γ-Al2O3 촉매상에서 휘발성 유기화합물 톨루엔의 저온산화)

  • Kim Sang-Hwan;Kim Jae-Sik;Yang Hee-Sung;Y Vu Trinh Nhu;Park Hyung-Sang
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.64-73
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    • 2007
  • The catalytic activity of transition metals (Cu, Co, Mn, Fe and Ni) supported on ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ for the oxidation of toluene was investigated in the microreactor of fixed-bed type. The catalytic activity of transition metals for the oxidation of toluene turned out to be increasing in the order of Ni$Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts for the oxidation of toluene increased with the increasing loadings of copper, reached the maximum activity at 5% loadings of copper, and decreased with higher loadings of copper in the catalysts. The activity of $Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts for the oxidation of toluene decreased with the increasing calcination temperatures. This might result from the decreasing surface area of catalysts due to the sintering of copper oxide as well as ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ supports. The 5wt% $Cu/{\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ catalysts calcined at $400^{\circ}C$ for 4 hrs in the air showed the highest activity for the oxidation of toluene. Mutual inhibition was observed for the binary mixture of toluene and xylene. The activity of the easy-to-oxidize toluene was greatly decreased while the difficult-to-oxidize xylene was slightly decreased in the binary mixture of toluene and xylene. It might suggest that the inhibition of toluene and xylene in the binary mixture resulted from the competitive adsorption for the adsorbed oxygen on the catalytic surface.

A Study on Oxidation Behaviors of IG and NBG Nuclear Graphites

  • Choi, Woong-Ki;Kim, Byung-Joo;Chi, Se-Hwan;Park, Soo-Jin
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.217-217
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    • 2009
  • In this work, the oxidation-induced characteristics of five nuclear graphites (NBG-17, NBG-18, NBG-25, IG-110, and IG-430) were studied. The oxidation characteristics of nuclear graphites were measured at the three temperature areas (300, 600, and $900^{\circ}C$). As experimental results, the pore size of oxidized graphite was increased with increasing of oxidation time. It was also found that the oxdation rate was propotional to the oxidation temperature and time. This was probably due to the oxidation was occurred on the surface and inner bulk phase of nuclear graphites at the same time by the socalled chemical regime.

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Electrochemical Oxidation of Benzidine and Hydrazobenzene

  • Won Mi-Sook;Shim Yoon-Bo;Park Su-Moon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.680-683
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    • 1992
  • The electrochemistry of benzidine and hydrazobenzene was studied in water-acetonitrile mixed solutions at various pHs and the results are reported. The cyclic voltammetric peak for the oxidation of benzidine shows a pH dependency of -62 mV/pH in the pH range of 0-3.5, no pH dependency between pH values of 3.5 and about 10.5, and of about -50 mV/pH between pH=10.50 and 14.0, indicating that oxidation mechanisms differ depending on the pH of the medium. However, the CV peak for the hydrazobenzene oxidation is shown to be independent of pH of the medium, suggesting that the proton is not involved in the rate limiting step of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrazobenzene to azobenzene. Results of in situ spectroelectrochemical experiments indicate that the oxidation products obtained during the oxidation of benzidine and hydrazobenzene depend on the result of dynamic equilibria taking place at various pHs.

Liquid Phase Oxidation of Xylenes: Effects of Water Concentration and Alkali Metals

  • Jhung, Sung-Hwa;Lee, Ki-Hwa;Park, Youn-Seok
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2002
  • A facile and precise batch oxidation reaction system allows continuous monitoring of the oxidation rate and cumulated oxygen conversion of xylenes, and the side reactions to carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide may also be studied. The oxidation reaction can be analyzed precisely with the rate and amount of oxygen consumed. The reaction reveals that 4-carboxybenzaldehyde is an unstable intermediate of p-xylene oxidation as the reaction proceeds instantaneously from p-toluic acid to TPA (terephthalic acid). The alkali metals accelerate oxidation, even though they retard the reaction initially. The oxidation rate increases with decreasing water concentration. However, in the later part of reaction, the reactivity decreases a bit if the water concentration is very low. This retarding effect of water can be overcome partly by the addition of potassium. The oxidation of o-xylene, compared with the oxidation of p-xylene and m-xylene, proceeds quite fast initially, however, the oxidation rate of xylene isomers in the later stage of reaction is in the order of p-xylene > mxylene > o-xylene.

Effect of Pre-oxidation of Pitch by H2O2 on Porosity of Activated Carbons (과산화수소에 의한 산화가 핏치계 활성탄소의 기공성질에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Ha;Park, Soo-Jin
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.183-187
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    • 2010
  • Activated carbons (ACs) have been prepared from pitch by the combination of a chemical oxidation with different $H_2O_2$ concentrations i.e., 5, 15, and 25 wt% and a chemical activation with KOH at a constant KOH/pitch ratio of 3/1. The influence of $H_2O_2$ solution on the microporous properties of the pitch and the final activated carbons were invested using XRD, FT-IR, XPS, $N_2$-adsorption, and SEM. XRD indicated that the value of interplanar distance $d_{002}$ increased by chemical oxidation. FT-IR and XPS results showed that the chemical oxidation promoted the formation of surface oxygen functionalities. Also, the specific surface area of the resulting ACs was increased with increasing the concentration of $H_2O_2$ chemical oxidation and showed a maximum value of $2111m^2/g$ at 25 wt% $H_2O_2$ concentration.