Polyethylene conversion by partial oxidation in supercritical water

This paper gives the results of partial oxidation experiments of polyethylene (PE) in supercritical water (SCW). The experiments were carried out at a reaction temperature of 693K and a reaction time of 30 min using 6 cm³ of a batch-type reactor. The loaded sample weight was 0.3 g and there was 2.52 g water (0.42 g/cm³). The ratio of oxygen atoms to carbon atoms was 0.3. The results show a significant CO formation in O₂–SCW, and the 1-alkene/n-alkane ratio in partial oxidation was higher than that in SCW pyrolysis. These results suggest the possibility of the hydrogenation of hydrocarbon through partial oxidation followed by a water–gas shift reaction. Received: July 19, 2000 / Accepted: September 28, 2000     

超临界CO2萃取在环境样品预处理中的应用

阐述了超临界流体萃取的原理和特点，分析了温度、压力、流体流速、改性剂、络合剂等因素对萃取过程的影响，介绍了超临界CO2萃取技术的优点及其在萃取土壤中的有机污染物、非固体介质中的污染物、环境样品中的金属离子等方面的应用，对该技术的应用前景作了展望。     

A process model to estimate the cost of industrial scale biodiesel production from waste cooking oil by supercritical transesterification

This paper describes the conceptual design of a production process in which waste cooking oil is converted via supercritical transesterification with methanol to methyl esters (biodiesel).Since waste cooking oil contains water and free fatty acids, supercritical transesterification offers great advantage to eliminate the pre-treatment capital and operating cost.A supercritical transesterification process for biodiesel continuous production from waste cooking oil has been studied for three plant capacities (125,000; 80,000 and 8000 tonnes biodiesel/year). It can be concluded that biodiesel by supercritical transesterification can be scaled up resulting high purity of methyl esters (99.8%) and almost pure glycerol (96.4%) attained as by-product.The economic assessment of the biodiesel plant shows that biodiesel can be sold at US$ 0.17/l (125,000 tonnes/year), US$ 0.24/l (80,000 tonnes/year) and US$ 0.52/l for the smallest capacity (8000 tonnes/year).The sensitive key factors for the economic feasibility of the plant are: raw material price, plant capacity, glycerol price and capital cost.Overall conclusion is that the process can compete with the existing alkali and acid catalyzed processes.Especially for the conversion of waste cooking oil to biodiesel, the supercritical process is an interesting technical and economical alternative.     

超临界流体技术在环境保护与治理中的应用

本文介绍了超临界流体的特性，对超临界流体技术（超临界流体清洁生产、超临界流体萃取、超临界流体色谱及超临界水氧化等）在环境保护与环境治理中的应用进行了综述。