Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The interactions of thiols with olefins and their effects on autoxidation during JFTOT testing

Journal Article · · Fuel Science and Technology International; (United States)
 [1]
  1. Code 6180, Chemistry Div., Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (US)
This paper shows 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 the JFTOT apparatus. Two different thiolindene adducts were found in the effluent, with the product distribution being temperature dependent. This process could account, in part, for the differences in thiol influences on autoxidation observed in model systems and in fuels.
OSTI ID:
6065884
Journal Information:
Fuel Science and Technology International; (United States), Journal Name: Fuel Science and Technology International; (United States) Vol. 9:9; ISSN FSCTE; ISSN 0884-3759
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English