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Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2009 May;8(5):600-3. doi: 10.1039/b817063k. Epub 2009 Jan 28.

Gas-phase photocatalytic oxidation of acrylonitrile.

Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology

Marina Krichevskaya, Svetlana Jõks, Anna Kachina, Sergei Preis

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. [email protected]

PMID: 19424531 DOI: 10.1039/b817063k

Abstract

Photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) of acrylonitrile (AN) on titanium dioxide in the gaseous phase was studied. AN readily undergoes photocatalytic degradation in a gas-solid system by using TiO(2) Degussa P25. The AN PCO volatile products, visible in the infrared spectra, included nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, water, hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide. Longer contact time resulted in deeper oxidation of AN with decreasing hydrogen cyanide and increasing nitrogen dioxide content. The effect of temperature increasing from 60 to 130 degrees C was observed to be slightly negative in terms of AN degradation rate. However, the effect of increased temperature was noticeable in terms of the character and yields of the PCO products: HCN peaks diminished with growing peaks of NO(2).

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