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thasan

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Soybean oil decomposition
« on: February 01, 2006, 05:47:51 AM »

hi guys,
can anybody please point out what might happen during thermal decomposition of soybean oil (over 700C) in intert environment (like Ar)?

Soybean mainly consists of oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid...

i am not sure whether H2O or CO/CO2 will be produced...

sorry for the newbie question but i am not a chemistry student :(

cheers,
hasan
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Re:Soybean oil decomposition
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2006, 04:56:45 AM »
CO/CO2.
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Re:Soybean oil decomposition
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2006, 05:52:38 AM »
Oleic acid C18H34O2
Linoleic acid C18H32O2
Linolenic acid CH3(CH2CH=CH)3(CH2)7COOH

Generally, each molecule has very little oxygen. In an inert environment (Argon) it seems that CO2 and CO would be unlikely candidates for the predominate output for thermal decomposition (over 700C).

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