{"title":"The Formation of Ethylene Glycol from Methanol–Formaldehyde Solutions","authors":"M. M. Silaev","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0610003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"These facts stimulate development of new, energetically efficient ethylene glycol synthesis technologies. A possible one is radiation-chemical synthesis using a dual-purpose heterogeneous nuclear reactor in which the graphite moderator is replaced with a methanol–formaldehyde mixture and the heat carrier is steam flowing past fuel elements. A technological analysis of this system demonstrated that, at a reactor thermal power of 2.5 GW, it is possible to profitably manufacture 80 thousand tons of ethylene glycol per year along with producing 677 MW electric power.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0610003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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These facts stimulate development of new, energetically efficient ethylene glycol synthesis technologies. A possible one is radiation-chemical synthesis using a dual-purpose heterogeneous nuclear reactor in which the graphite moderator is replaced with a methanol–formaldehyde mixture and the heat carrier is steam flowing past fuel elements. A technological analysis of this system demonstrated that, at a reactor thermal power of 2.5 GW, it is possible to profitably manufacture 80 thousand tons of ethylene glycol per year along with producing 677 MW electric power.