The thermal decomposition of tert-butyl-1,3-cyclopentadiene has been investigated in single-pulse shock-tube studies at shock pressures of 182-260 kPa and temperatures of 996-1127 K. Isobutene (2-methylpropene), 1,3-cyclopentadiene, and toluene were observed as the major stable products in the thermolysis of dilute mixtures of the substrate in the presence of a free-radical scavenger. Hydrogen ...

The kinetics of the simultaneous syntheses ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) and butyl (BTBE) over Amberlyst™ 35 (A35) has been studied at 315–353 K in liquid phase. Different kinetic modeling approaches—namely, empirical power-law modeling, mechanistic based on Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW) Eley-Rideal (ER) formalisms, information-based modeling—have compared. Empirical equations yield...

Compared with industrial used Pt- and Cr-based catalyst in dehydrogenation (DH) of light alkanes, the sulfide V-K/γ-Al2O3 reported this study shows lower cost toxicity, significant DH performance. The yield to isobutene reached as high 52.9%, which is among highest date. We attribute such precise modulation polymerization degree for vanadium species via doping potassium indicating that synergy ...

We report integral, differential, and momentum transfer cross sections for elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by cyclobutane (c-C4H8), which is an isomer of the C4H8 molecule and has a closed chain. Our calculations were performed with the Schwinger multichannel method with pseudopotentials at the static-exchange level of approximation, for energies up to 50 eV. We compare the cross sec...

Zeolites are widely applied as solid acid catalysts in various technological processes. In this work we have computationally investigated how catalytic reactivity scales with acidity for a range of zeolites with different topologies and chemical compositions. We found that straightforward correlations are limited to zeolites with the same topology. The adsorption energies of bases such as carbo...

The residue curve mapping technique (RCM) has been considered a powerful tool for the flow-sheet development and preliminary design of conventional multi-component separation processes. It does not only represent a good approximation to actual equilibrium behavior, but also it allows performing feasibility analysis of separation processes where non-ideal and azeotropic mixtures are involved. Ap...