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Rapid determination of products of phenol hydrogenation in a supercritical water system using headspace gas chromatography

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This paper reports a headspace analysis technique for the determination of products, i.e., cyclohexanone (CE) and cyclohexanol (CL), of phenol hydrogenation in a supercritical water reaction system (SWRS) with water removal by hydrate formation. An addition of anhydrous calcium chloride leads to water absorption resulting in crystal water; thus, the samples can be quantitatively measured without the influence of water. After achieving equilibrium at 150°C and maintaining it for 5 min, the obtained results showed a relative standard deviation of less than 5.3% and the recovery ranged from 93% to 104%. The presented method is simple and accurate for the analysis of CL, CE and phenol in samples from phenol conversion in SWRS.

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  1. Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, 727 South Jingming Rd, Kunming, 650500, China

    Qing-Qing Guan, Xiao-Dian Huang, Yan-Hua Zeng, Ping Ning & Gu Jun-Jie

  2. The Key Lab of Pollution Control and Ecosystem Restoration in Industry Clusters, Ministry of Education, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Rd, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Qing-Qing Guan & Chao-Hai Wei

  3. State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Rd, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Xin-Sheng Chai

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Guan, QQ., Huang, XD., Zeng, YH. et al. Rapid determination of products of phenol hydrogenation in a supercritical water system using headspace gas chromatography. Chem. Pap. 69, 662–667 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/chempap-2015-0081

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