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Title: Gas-liquid solubilities of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, water, 1-alcohols (1 [<=] n [<=] 6), and n-paraffins (2 [<=] n [<=] 6) in hexadecane, octacosane, 1-hexadecanol, phenanthrene, and tetraethylene glycol at pressures up to 5. 5 MPa and temperatures from 293 to 553 K

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/je00016a004· OSTI ID:6890178
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  1. Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands). Dept. of Chemical Engineering

At temperatures between 473 and 673 K and pressures between 2 and 10 MPa, synthesis gas can be converted toward methanol, fuel-methanol (a mixture of methanol and higher alcohols), or a mixture of hydrocarbons (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), depending on the type of heterogeneous catalyst applied. The gas-liquid solubilities of the solutes carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, water, ethane, propane, pentane, hexane, methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 1-butanol, 1-pentanol, and 1-hexanol in the solvents tetraethylene glycol, hexadecane, octacosane, 1-hexadecanol, and phenanthrene were measured as a function of temperature. The solutes are all reactants or products relevant for synthesis gas conversion into alcohols and/or hydrocarbons. The solvents are seen as potentially attractive for synthesis gas conversion via gas-slurry processes. Experimental conditions varied between 293 and 553 K and 0.06 and 5.5 MPa, covering typical process conditions for synthesis gas conversion. The total set of experimental results consists of 1,533 gas-liquid solubilities divided over 60 binary systems. As far as the authors know hardly any of the gas-liquid solubilities from this set have been reported previously in the literature. Where literature data are available, a comparison is made with their data. This comparison always shows an agreement within the calculated experimental errors with an average deviation of 7.6% and a maximal deviation of 15.0%.

OSTI ID:
6890178
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data; (United States), Vol. 39:4; ISSN 0021-9568
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English