Manganese sulfate effect on PAH formation from polystyrene pyrolysis

Autor: Yu-Ling Wei, Jen-Ho Lee
Rok vydání: 1999
Předmět:
Zdroj: Science of The Total Environment. 228:59-66
ISSN: 0048-9697
Popis: Polystyrene (PS) was pyrolyzed with/without manganese sulfate addition in a 100% N 2 environment at 600, 700 and 800°C in a laboratory quartz reactor. The mole ratio of carbon (in PS) to Mn was 40/1. The gas-phase and liquid-phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were extracted with dichloromethane (DCM) and subsequently prepared for further analysis with an HPLC equipped with a wavelength-scanning ultraviolet (UV) detector and a fluorescence (FL) detector. Virtually no char or coke residue was observed in the reactor at the end of the pyrolysis reaction. The addition of MnSO 4 into the high-temperature pyrolysis of PS reduced PAH formation in all liquid and gas products. The transition metal-chelating oxidation mechanism previously used to explain soot reduction during combustion was not adequate for explaining the results of PAH reduction via MnSO 4 addition into the inert pyrolysis. Furthermore, it is suggested that soot reduction via manganese salt addition into oxygen-rich combustion might not result only from the well-accepted chelating oxidation mechanism; rather, it might result from the reduction of hydrocarbon species in the locally fuel-rich environment via manganese salt addition, as inferred from the reduction of PAH formation during inert pyrolysis with/without MnSO 4 addition observed in this study.
Databáze: OpenAIRE