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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Paul ChristensenORCiD, Zeinab Mashhadani
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This paper reports the application of in-situ reflectance Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscopy to the study of the thermal and plasma driven reaction of IsoPropyl Alcohol (IPA) at SnO2-coated Macor, the latter a ceramic material comprised of the oxides of Al, Mg and Si. The data so obtained were compared to those obtained using uncoated Macor. When uncoated Macor was employed, no reaction of the IPA was observed up to 600°C in the thermal experiments, whereas a number of products were observed in the plasma-driven experiments. The results obtained using coated Macor were somewhat different, with no reaction taking place in the plasma-driven experiments, whilst significant reaction took place in the thermally-driven process. In the latter experiments, the chemistry was observed to show four distinct temperature regions, with electron injection into the conduction band of the SnO2 playing a significant role, culminating in the production of CO2. The data were interpreted in terms of a model in which physisorbed IPA was converted to two forms of isopropoxide: this was converted to acetone and acetaldehyde via adsorbed enolate. The data clearly support the catalytic activity of Macor in the plasma-driven conversion of IPA.
Author(s): Christensen PA, Mashhadania ZTAW, Md Ali AHB
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Year: 2018
Volume: 20
Issue: 14
Pages: 9053-9062
Print publication date: 14/04/2018
Online publication date: 25/01/2018
Acceptance date: 25/01/2018
Date deposited: 03/05/2018
ISSN (print): 1463-9076
ISSN (electronic): 1463-9084
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CP07829C
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP07829C
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