Sulfolane, a water-soluble organosulfur compound, is used industrially worldwide and is associated with one of the largest contaminated groundwater plumes in the state of Alaska. Despite being widely used, little is understood about the degradation of sulfolane in the environment, especially in cold regions. We conducted aerobic and anaerobic microcosm studies to assess the biological and abiot...

Sulfolane (C4H8SO2; CAS 126-33-0) is a solvent used for gas treatment in a number of industrial processes. It is known under a variety of synonyms and trade names including bondelane A, 2,3,4,5-tetrahydrothiophene-1,1dioxide, and tetramethylene sulfone. It has a molecular weight of 120.17 g·mol, a density of 1.276 g·cm at 15°C, an aqueous solubility of 1,266,000 mg·L at 20°C, a log Koc of 0.07,...

Boiling points have been determined at 101.33 kPa for the binary mixtures of sulfolane + o-xylene, sulfolane + m-xylene, sulfolane+p-xylene, sulfolane+ethylbenzene and sulfolane+1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Calculations of the non-ideality of the vapor phase were made with the second virial coefficients evaluated from the Hayden–O’Connell method. The binary parameters for five activity coefficient m...

Effects of the supercharging reagents m-NBA and sulfolane on sodium ion adduction to protein ions formed using native mass spectrometry were investigated. There is extensive sodium adduction on protein ions formed by electrospray ionization from aqueous solutions containing millimolar concentrations of NaCl, which can lower sensitivity by distributing the signal of a given charge state over mul...

Sulfolane is a widely used industrial solvent that is often used for gas treatment (sour gas sweetening; hydrogen sulfide removal from shale and coal processes, etc.), and in the manufacture of polymers and electronics, and may be found in pharmaceuticals as a residual solvent used in the manufacturing processes. Sulfolane is considered a high production volume chemical with worldwide productio...

The authors investigated different sulfolane concentrations in surface water and also performed the field study. The results showed that the practical threshold value of sulfolane affecting the organoleptic property (order) of water amounted to 10.6 mg/L. The sulfolane concentration did not inhibit the process of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). The chronic threshold and no-effect doses for sul...

Liquid–liquid equilibrium (LLE) data are critical for the design and optimization of processes extracting aromatics. Partial LLE non-aromatic–aromatic–sulfolane ternary system were acquired at 313.15 K 101.3 kPa. The extraction aromatics using sulfolane predicted COSMO-RS model. Correspondingly, experimental analyzed root mean square deviation (RMSD), distribution coefficient (D), separation fa...

Sulfolane is an emerging industrial pollutant detected in the environments near many oil and gas plants North America. So far, numerous advanced oxidation processes have been investigated to treat sulfolane aqueous media. However, there only a few papers that discuss degradation of using photocatalysis. In this study, photocatalytic titanium dioxide (TiO2) reduced graphene oxide TiO2 composite ...

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) gel was prepared by the freezing and thawing method using the solvents of N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) and tetramethylene sulfone(sulfolane). The gelation time after a series of freezing and thawing was examined with varying PAN concentration of DMA solution and the freezing time. Dynamic viscoelasticity was measured in the course of gelation for DMA solution to observe t...