Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2007

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Carraher, Charles E.

Abstract

Nitric acid can drive oxidation reactions of paraffins producing nitroparaffins and other oxidation products. Presented here is a study on the aqueous liquid phase nitric acid oxidation of paraffin oil supported on PTFE particles. The goals ofthis study are: 1. To evaluate the effectiveness of nitric acid in removing paraffin oil from PTFE particle surfaces. 2. To evaluate the effects of nitric acid driven reactions with paraffin oils under varying reaction conditions. 3. To evaluate FTIR Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, DRIFT, as a tool to accomplish the quantitative analysis of this process. These goals have been achieved employing analysis by FTIR Diffuse Reflectance, which provides a ready means of quantifying paraffin removal. Paraffin removal generally increases with time, temperature and nitric acid concentration and can be described by known kinetics including activation energy and region of unity relationship between the log of the rate constant verses Hammett acidity function.

Extent

118 p.

Comments

Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Includes bibliography.

Identifier

FA00000831

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