Triethylamine as an initiator for cracking of heptane

Ze Wang, Ruisen Lin, Wenjun Fang, Gang Li, Yongsheng Guo and Zhenwei Qin

Energy, 2006, vol. 31, issue 14, 2773-2790

Abstract: Triethylamine was found to be effective in promoting the cracking of heptane at the temperature of 550–650°C. The experimental yields of ethylene and propylene are more than twice as high as the calculated values on hypothesis of no interaction between triethylamine and heptane, when the mass fraction reaches 6% at the most notable temperature of 550°C. The accelerating mechanism is studied by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and it shows that the accelerating effect is mainly attributed to the initiative release of CH3CH2 from triethylamine by the scission of the C–N bond.

Keywords: Mechanism; Accelerating effect; Cracking; Triethylamine; Heptane (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2005.11.023

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