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Fuel instability model studies: The liquid-phase cooxidation of thiols and indene by oxygen

Journal Article · · Energy and Fuels; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ef00029a021· OSTI ID:5493503
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  1. Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (United States)
Instability problems in middle distillate fuels have been correlated with the presence of both active olefin species and heteroatomic compounds such as thiols. It has been demonstrated that the type of sulfur compound rather than the total sulfur concentration is the key to fuel instability reactions. Research has shown that low concentrations of thiols will act as radical traps to inhibit autoxidation. When added to a fuel, thiols accelerated the rate of oxygen reaction without a commensurate increase in peroxidation. Evidence for the oxidative addition of thiols to olefins has been found to occur by studying the addition of thiophenol to indene in a model fuel during stressing in both a model system at temperatures in the 100-120C range and in the JFTOT apparatus at temperatures up to 320C. Similarities and differences were found in the two systems, with the product distribution being temperature dependent. This could account, in part, for the differences in thiol influences on autoxidation observed in model systems and in fuels.
OSTI ID:
5493503
Journal Information:
Energy and Fuels; (United States), Journal Name: Energy and Fuels; (United States) Vol. 5:5; ISSN 0887-0624; ISSN ENFUE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English