Destruction of Toxic Organic Materials Using Super-Critical Water Oxidation: Current State of the Technology

摘要: In 1966 John Connolly of Standard Oil Co. published remarkable data on hydrocarbon solubilities in water at high temperatures and pressures [2]: he observed that, some regions the phase diagram, hydrocarbons (e.g., benzene, heptane) are miscible all proportions. Rapid development experimental techniques made Connolly’s work possible speculations began about consequences his observations. For example, 1970 Gerhard Schneider suggested extension wet air oxidation to higher for disposal organic materials [3]. mid 1970’s Sanjay Amln, a student working with Robert Reid Michael Modell Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT), studied decomposition compounds hot found that Intractable tars formed below critical temperature water, disappeared above It. Research supercritical (SCWO) waste soon after [4].