Conversion of Chloroform to HCI by Reaction with Hydrogen and Water Vapor

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1986

Abstract

Chloroform was used as a model chlorocarbon to investigate the reductive processes of chlorocarbons with hydrogen and the reductive/oxidative reactions with water vapor. The reactions were studied in a tubular reactor at a pressure of 1 atm with residence times of 0.005-1.2s in the temperature range 550–1100 °C. At a reaction temperature above 1100 °C, the major products from the reaction of chloroform with hydrogen were observed as HCl, C(s), CH4, and C2H2. HCl, C(s), C2H2, CO, and CO2 were, identified as the primary products from the reaction of chloroform with water vapor. Quantitative conversion of chlorine into HCl was obtained from thermal reaction of chlorocarbons under either a reductive atmosphere of hydrogen or a combination reductive/oxidative atmosphere of water vapor. © 1986, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.

Identifier

0022729621 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Environmental Science and Technology

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1021/es00148a004

e-ISSN

15205851

ISSN

0013936X

First Page

568

Last Page

574

Issue

6

Volume

20

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