Ethanol, thermochemical

Silvery-white metal when freshly cut rapidly turns yellow on exposure to air forming a thin oxide coating face-centered cubic structure malleable, ductile, and somewhat softer than calcium density 2.64 g/cm melts at 777°C vaporizes at 1,382°C vapor pressure 5 torr at 847°C and 20 torr at 953°C electrical resistivity 23 microhm-cm at 20°C thermal neutron absorption cross section 1.21 barns reacts with water soluble in ethanol. Thermochemical Properties... 

Dutta, A., Takaadge, M., Hensley, J. et al. (2011) Process Design and Economics for Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Ethanol Thermochemical Pathway by Indirect Gasification and Mixed Alcohol Synthesis, NREL/TP-5100-51400. Available at http //www.nrel.gov/biomass/pdfs/51400. pdf (accessed on 29 August 2015). 

Self-Test 6.14B Ethanol trapped in a gel is another common camping fuel. What mass of ethanol must be burned to supply 350. kj as heat The thermochemical equation for the combustion of ethanol is... 

Ethanol can be derived from biomass by means of acidic/enzymatic hydrolysis or also by thermochemical conversion and subsequent enzymatic ethanol formation. Likewise for methanol, hydrogen can be produced from ethanol with the ease of storage/transportation and an additional advantage of its nontoxicity. Apart from thermodynamic studies on hydrogen from ethanol steam reforming,117-119 catalytic reaction studies were also performed on this reaction using Ni-Cu-Cr catalysts,120 Ni-Cu-K alumina-supported catalysts,121 Cu-Zn alumina-supported catalysts,122,123 Ca-Zn alumina-supported catalysts,122 and Ni-Cu silica-supported catalysts.123... 

The choice of a given database as source of auxiliary values may not be straightforward, even for a thermochemist. Consistency is a very important criterion, but factors such as the publication year, the assignment of an uncertainty to each value, and even the scientific reputation of the authors or the origin of the database matter. For instance, it would not be sensible to use the old NBS Circular 500 [22] when the NBS Tables of Chemical Thermodynamic Properties [17], published in 1982, is available. If we need a value for the standard enthalpy of formation of an organic compound, such as ethanol, we will probably prefer Pedley s Thermodynamic Data and Structures of Organic Compounds [15], published in 1994, which reports the error bars. Finally, if we are looking for the standard enthalpy of formation of any particular substance, we should first check whether it is included in CODATA Key Values for Thermodynamics [16] or in the very recent Active Thermochemical Tables [23,24],... 

Figure 5.5 Thermochemical cycles relating O-H bond enthalpy contributions ( s) with bond dissociation enthalpies (DH°) in phenol and ethanol. ER are reorganization energies (see text).

There are thermochemical data for only one nonmethyl aliphatic hydroxylamine, N,N-diethylhydroxylamine . The enthalpy of formation difference between it and A-methyl-hydroxylamine is 71.6 kJ mol . This is very nearly the same as the difference of 79.7 kJ mol between the corresponding primary and secondary alcohols, ethanol and 3-pen-tanol, where the N of the hydroxylamine is replaced by a CH. Thus, the formal reaction enthalpy of equation 3 is only 8.1 kJmol . 

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The standard enthalpy of formation, AHf°, of a substance is the standard reaction enthalpy for the formation of a substance from its elements in their most stable form. (Phosphorus is an exception white phosphorus is used because it is much easier to obtain pure than the other, more stable allotropes.) Standard enthalpies of formation are expressed in kilojoules per mole of the substance (kj-mol-1). We obtain AHf for ethanol, for instance, from the thermochemical equation for its formation from graphite (the most stable form of carbon) and gaseous hydrogen and oxygen ... 

Conversion efficiency and robust fermentation of mixed-sugar lignocellulose-derived hydrolysates are critical for producing ethanol at low cost to realize a commercially viable biorefinery. Biomass sugars are typically released by thermochemical pretreatment followed by enzymatic hydrolysis of chopped or milled biomass. The pretreated soluble fraction of biomass is called the hydrolysate and the hydrolysate containing the insoluble... 

Thermochemical Biochemical Electrochemical Photochemical Plasma Sonochemical Ammonia Ethanol Gluconic Acid Chloromethanes Acetylene Fumaric Acid (Laboratory Scale)... 

Table 11.10 is a summary of the different conversion schemes and conditions for thermochemical ethanol formation discussed here. The primary routes to ethanol and ethanol precursors from synthesis gas are evident. It remains to be determined whether any of these technologies can be developed to produce low-cost thermochemical ethanol. 

When perfected, synthesis-gas-to-ethanol technology can be expected to have a large impact on fermentation ethanol markets. It is likely that thermochemical ethanol would then be manufactured at production costs in the same range as methanol from synthesis gas, which can be produced by gasification of virtually any fossil or biomass feedstock. Applying the advances that have been made for conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks via enzymatically catalyzed options, it has been estimated that the production cost of fermentation ethanol... 

Ethanol is the key reactant in Eq. (1), and also in Eq. (2) because it is readily converted to acetaldehyde. The process based on Eq. 1 was developed in Russia and the process based on Eq. 2 was developed in the United States. The yield of butadiene for the Russian process is about 30-35%. It is about 70% if mixtures of ethanol and acetaldehyde are employed as in the U.S. process. Equation (3) represents a process that involves 2,3-butylene glycol, a product from the microbial conversion of biomass. The process is carried out in two sequential steps via the glycol diacetate in overall yields to butadiene of about 80%. The process of Eq. (4) starts with a biomass derivative, the cyclic ether tetrahydrofuran, and can be carried out at high yields. When this process was first operated on a large scale in Germany, acetylene and formaldehyde were the raw materials for the synthesis of intermediate tetrahydrofuran. It is manufactured today from biomass feedstocks by thermochemical conversion, as will be discussed later. 

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