Chunhua Dong,Xingfu Song,Jie Zhang,Evert Jan Meijer,Hang Chen,Jianguo Yu
A thermal dissociation process (ideally, 100% atom utilization) to regenerate the amine extractant and to produce gaseous HCl which is the key to realizing the CO 2 mineralization with metal chloride waste liquids was investigated. Solvent effects on the thermal dissociation of tri-n-octylamine hydrochloride (TOAHCl) were predicted to be prominent via analyzing structure parameters, charge distribution, solvation free energy, apparent basicity, and N-H frequency with the help of molecular simulation and experiments. Inert solvents with low polarity such as decalin, dodecane were favorable in thermal dissociation experiments. In particular, decalin enhanced the dissociation most effectively which is in agreement with the prediction. In dilute solutions, the thermal dissociation kinetics was shown to be first order. The apparent reaction rate (3.0 × 10 −4 −1.5 × 10 −2 min −1 ) and activation energy (58.219-121.827 kJ/mol) differ a lot at 180-190°C in various solvents, confirming a strong solvent effect. A two-stage reaction scheme in dilute solutions has been proposed from the experimental study. The overall process is entropically driven, with the removal of HCl into gas phase from the solvated state. The work could offer a fundamental direction for the further actual process.
Chuan Lin,Renzhi Hu,Pinhua Xie,Guoxian Zhang,Xiaoyan Liu,Jinzhao Tong,Wenqing Liu
A newly constructed thermal dissociation cavity ring-down spectrometer (TD-CRDS) for the simultaneous measurement of ambient total peroxy nitrates (ΣPNs, RO 2 NO 2 ), total alkyl nitrates (ΣANs, RONO 2 ), and NO 2 was presented in this work. ΣPNs and ΣANs were detected as NO 2 with the CRDS instrument after thermal dissociation. PNs and ANs completely dissociated at 180 °C and 360 °C, with conversion efficiencies of 96 % and 99 %, respectively. The effects of NO 2 and NO on measurement in different temperatures and two types of thermal dissociation inlet (TDI) were further explored. The influence of ambient NO 2 and NO on PNs and ANs in the improved TDI (TDI-2) was significantly improved. To further enhance the measurement accuracy, the consistency of the observed NO 2 in the three channels was tested, which achieved good agreement. The detection limits of the TD-CRDS instrument for NO 2 , ΣPNs, and ΣANs were determined as 6.5, 6.8, and 8.6 pptv (10 s, 1σ), respectively. Observations of PNs and ANs were conducted in a suburban site in Hefei, China, from September 2–30, 2021, using the TD-CRDS instrument, and the consecutive time series of PNs and ANs were derived, verifying the capability of the TD-CRDS instrument for continuous field observations of ΣPNs and ΣANs.