The etherification of glycerol with propylene over acidic heterogeneous catalysts, Amberlyst-15, S100, and S200 resins, produced mono-propyl glycerol ethers (MPGEs), 1,3-di- and 1,2-di-propyl glycerol ethers (DPGEs), and tri-propyl glycerol ether (TPGE). The propylation of glycerol over Amberlyst-15 yielded only TPGE. The glycerol etherification with 1-butene over Amberlyst-15 and S200 resins p...

Correlation of the octane number (ON) of heptane and octane isomers with various topological indices, Z, w, p, and B, was studied. For single parameter correlation the index B by Balaban and w by Wiener show good results, whereas for two-parameter correlation almost any combination among the above four indices was found to give relatively high r value. Further, by adding the third parameter the...

In this work naphtha is exposed to ultraviolet rays under various conditions namely; UV exposureonly, exposure with cooling, cooling and catalyst, Cooling,Catalyst Oxidant O2 Catalyst investigate the bondscracking process (Photo-degradation or photolysis reactions) its effect on octane numberwhere several bonds are be broken due absorption high energy of radiation. It expectedthat number should...

We present molecular dynamics results for the interaction between two solid elastic walls during pull-off for systems with and without octane (C(8)H(18)) lubricant. We used two types of substrate--flat and corrugated--and varied the lubricant coverage from approximately 1/8 to approximately 4 ML (monolayers) of octane. For the flat substrate without lubricant the maximum adhesion was found to b...

Refiners add tetraethyl lead (TEL) and tetramethyl lead (TML) to gasoline to increase octane. In most situations, adding lead is the least expensive means of providing incremental octane to meet gasoline specifications. At sufficiently high levels, addition of lead can increase octane as much as 10 to 15 control octane numbers (Figure 1). Lead susceptibility (the gasoline’s propensity to increa...

A high chlorinated alumina catalyst obtained by treating Pt/γ-Al2O3 (0.25 wt. % Pt) samples with two mixtures of CCl4/N2 and CCl4/N2/H2 was tested for the hydroisomerization of C6 alkane. The conversion of n-hexane feed was diluted with hydrogen performed with different H2/HC ratios at various temperatures, liquid hourly space velocities (LHSVs) and 3MPa total pressure. The catalyst introduced ...