Production of Renewable Hydrocarbons by Thermal Cracking of Oleic Acid in the Presence of Water
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Abstract
The thermal cracking of oleic acid, a model fatty acid, in the temperature range of 390–450 °C was studied in the presence and absence of water. The effect of water on conversion yield and product distribution was determined. Analysis of the pyrolysis product by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry revealed the presence of expected compounds such as alkanes, alkenes, cyclic hydrocarbons, aromatics, and fatty acids in the liquid product. The results showed that distribution of the different classes of compounds was mainly dependent on the reaction temperature. In the absence of water, the products generated from pyrolysis of fatty acids at 430 and 450 °C yielded lower volumes of liquid product and higher amounts of aromatic compounds and solid residues than at 390 °C. However, these reactions still displayed high conversion and low fatty acid content. In the presence of water, an increase in liquid product yield was measured compared to pyrolysis conducted in the absence of water. However, the presence of water resulted in a remarkable drop in conversion (from 91.2 ± 1.0% to 74.2 ± 0.4%) at 390 °C. At 430 °C, the conversion did not change significantly in the presence of 5% water. At 450 °C, the conversion decreased slightly from 99.7 ± 0.1 to 98.1 ± 1.1 and to 98.2 ± 0.8 in the presence of 5 and 10% water, respectively. Despite the lower conversion at 450 °C, the reduction in absolute amount was very small and thus the conversion rate was still close to 100%. At 450 °C, a decrease in solid residue yield and aromatics was also observed in the presence of water, while cyclic compounds increased at both 430 and 450 °C. The plausible underlying mechanisms have been discussed in this work.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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