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Thermal cracker

Thermal cracker

Thermal cracker

(OP)
Is it possible to operate a cracker under vacuum conditions? The decomposition temperature of the charge is 240 C .

RE: Thermal cracker

(OP)
Dear Mr Stone cold and Jay! Thankyou for your replies.

Mr Stone Cold, i think there is a small misunderstanding here. Well, I'am not looking to crack a trimer at 250 C, though it detonates at 130 C. The trimer which is attached to 3 oxygen molecules is first added to a solvent (Di ethyl malonate), which increases the decomposition temp to 250 ( which also makes the trimer more stable).

I was trying to find , now for example for any chemical, or even our case, if we maintain vacuum conditions is it possible to achieve the same decomposition effect at much lower temperatures ?

RE: Thermal cracker

shankerm
Sorry for the misunderstanding.  I thought that you were cracking the material first and then adding to the di-ethyl malonate.   If you want to crack at a lower temperature catalyzing the reaction seems to be the route.  It will lower the cracking temperature but it may affect the detonation as well.  The basic iron catalysts are very good at indescrimenant cracking.  Hope this is more on track.

StoneCold

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