Research Equipment Grant: High Performance Liquid Chromatograph for Chemical Reaction Studies

密歇根大学化学工程系将购买一台高效液相色谱仪（HPLC），用于支持工程研究。该仪器将用于鉴定、表征和量化热降解和氧化降解反应的产物。该设备将用于几个不同的研究项目，研究发生降解反应的系统，这些系统很重要。在某些情况下，降解反应是需要的，并且是有意进行的（例如，销毁危险废物，将原油和煤转化为液体燃料）。在其他情况下，降解反应是不希望的，工程师和化学家寻求方法来防止或抑制它们（例如，汽车发动机油的变质，喷气燃料中固体的形成）。高效液相色谱将提供迄今无法获得的分析信息，使PI能够更全面地了解热降解和氧化降解反应途径、动力学和机制。这一分析仪器将促进若干不同技术领域的进展，包括采用处理危险废物的新方法、研制更好的液体润滑剂、为喷气式飞机配制下一代燃料、更有效地将煤和重油转化为运输燃料。这是一项研究设备补助金（REG）。

The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan will purchase a high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) that will be dedicated to support research in engineering. This instrument will be used to identify, characterize, and quantify the products from thermal and oxidative degradation reactions. The equipment will be used for several different research projects that investigate systems in which degradation reactions occur and are important. In some cases the degradation reactions are desired and carried out deliberately, (for example, destruction of hazardous wastes, conversion of crude oils and coal to liquid fuels). In other cases the degradation reactions are undesired, and engineers and chemists seek means to prevent or suppress them (for example, deterioration of automotive engine oils, formation of solids in jet fuel). The HPLC will provide access to heretofore unavailable analytical information that will allow the PI to understand thermal and oxidative degradation reaction pathways, kinetics, and mechanisms, more completely. This analytical instrument will facilitate advances in several different technological areas, including employing new approaches for treating hazardous wastes, developing better liquid lubricants, formulating the next generation of fuels for jet aircraft, and more efficiently converting coal and heavy oils into transportation fuels. This is a Research Equipment Grant (REG).