Improved Procedure for Extraction of Aromatic Bases from Synfuel Materials

摘要

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the conventional aqueous acidbase extraction procedures and to explore alternate conditions for optimizing recovery of aromatic bases. For four procedures the recoveries were measured for 13 components in a mixture containing phenols, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons(PAH), primary aromatic amines (PAA), and azaarenes (AA) representative of the types of compounds found in synfuel materials. The results demonstrated that recoveries of hydrophobic 3 to 5 ring PAA and AA can be dramatically increased by using methanol as a cosolvent. The modified procedure is highly efficient for extraction of larger PAA and AA, and does not lead to emulsions when extracting samples of coal-derived materials. 2 figures, 2 tables. (ERA citation 08:021196)