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Atmospheric oxidation of selected alcohols and esters

Abstract

The decision whether it is appropriate and beneficial for the environment to deploy specific oxygenated organic compounds as replacements for traditional solvent types requires a quantitative assessment of their potential atmospheric impacts including tropospheric ozone and other photooxidant formation. This involves developing chemical mechanisms for the gasphase atmospheric oxidation of the compounds which can be reliably used in models to predict their atmospheric reactivity under a variety of environmental conditions. Until this study, there was very little information available concerning the atmospheric fate of alcohols and esters. The objectives of this study were to measure the atmospheric reaction rates and to define atmospheric reaction mechanisms for the following selected oxygenated volatile organic compounds: the alcohols, 1-butanol and 1-pentanol, and the esters, methyl propionate and dimethyl succinate. The study has successfully addressed these objectives. (orig.)
Publication Date:
Mar 01, 2001
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
ETDE-DE-1205
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 2001; Related Information: Universitaet Wuppertal, Fachbereich 9 - Physikalische Chemie, PC. Bericht v. 53
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; VOLATILE MATTER; BUTANOLS; PENTANOLS; CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTERS; SUCCINIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; HYDROXYL RADICALS; CHLORINE; TROPOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL REACTORS
OSTI ID:
20258590
Research Organizations:
Wuppertal Univ. (Gesamthochschule) (Germany). Fachbereich 9 - Physikalische Chemie
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 1436-2198; TRN: DE02G8158
Availability:
Available to ETDE participating countries only(see www.etde.org); commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE20258590
Submitting Site:
DE
Size:
139 pages
Announcement Date:
Aug 23, 2002

Citation Formats

Becker, K H, and Cavalli, F. Atmospheric oxidation of selected alcohols and esters. Germany: N. p., 2001. Web.
Becker, K H, & Cavalli, F. Atmospheric oxidation of selected alcohols and esters. Germany.
Becker, K H, and Cavalli, F. 2001. "Atmospheric oxidation of selected alcohols and esters." Germany.
@misc{etde_20258590,
title = {Atmospheric oxidation of selected alcohols and esters}
author = {Becker, K H, and Cavalli, F}
abstractNote = {The decision whether it is appropriate and beneficial for the environment to deploy specific oxygenated organic compounds as replacements for traditional solvent types requires a quantitative assessment of their potential atmospheric impacts including tropospheric ozone and other photooxidant formation. This involves developing chemical mechanisms for the gasphase atmospheric oxidation of the compounds which can be reliably used in models to predict their atmospheric reactivity under a variety of environmental conditions. Until this study, there was very little information available concerning the atmospheric fate of alcohols and esters. The objectives of this study were to measure the atmospheric reaction rates and to define atmospheric reaction mechanisms for the following selected oxygenated volatile organic compounds: the alcohols, 1-butanol and 1-pentanol, and the esters, methyl propionate and dimethyl succinate. The study has successfully addressed these objectives. (orig.)}
place = {Germany}
year = {2001}
month = {Mar}
}