High temperature oxidation of C2Cl4/CH4 mixtures.

Experiments on high temperature oxidation of multi-chlorinated hydrocarbons, tetrachloroethylene (C2Cl4), with hydrocarbon fuels, CH4, were performed in a 15 mm i.d. tubular flow reactor. Temperatures ranged from 700 to 850 degrees C, with the average residence time in the range from 0.3 to 1.5s. Three equivalence ratios, phi=0.87 (fuel-lean (FL)), phi=1 (stoichiometry (S)), and phi=1.3 (fuel-rich (FR)), were studied. The global Arrhenius equations for the decomposition of C(2)Cl(4) for each reactant set ratio are: k(lean)=5.77 x 10(15) exp(-30447/RT), k(stoi)=5.15 x 10(15) exp(-30421/RT), and k(rich)=6.32 x 10(14) exp(-28879/RT). The important reactions for destruction of parent C2Cl4 include: C2Cl4 --> C2Cl3 + Cl, C2Cl4 + H--> C2Cl3 + HCl and C2Cl4 + H --> C2HCl3 + Cl. The resulting reactant loss, and intermediate and final product profiles were determined. C2HCl3, C2Cl2, CO, CO2 and HCl are the major products for the reaction of C2Cl4/CH4/O2 mixtures for these three reaction systems. Minor intermediates include C2H3Cl, C2HCl, COCl2, CH3CHCl2, C2H4, C2H6, CCl2CHCH3 , trans-CHClCHCl, cis-CHClCHCl, trans-ClHC=CClCH(3), C6H6, and Cl2. The experimental data showed that as the oxygen concentration increased, the temperature needed to detect the resulting products decreased.