Journal article
Thermal recycling of brominated flame retardants with Fe2O3
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.120(30), pp.6039-6047
2016
Abstract
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) constitute the major fraction of the non-metallic content in e-waste. Co-pyrolysis of BFRs with hematite (Fe2O3) represents a viable option for the thermal recycling of BFRs. Consensus of experimental findings confirms the superior bromine fixation ability of Fe2O3 and the subsequent formation of iron bromides. This contribution provides a comprehensive mechanistic account of the primary reactions between a cluster model of Fe2O3 and major bromine-bearing products from the decomposition of TBBA, the most commonly deployed BFR. We estimate the thermo-kinetic parameters for interactions of Fe2O3 with HBr, brominated alkanes and alkenes, bromobenzene and bromophenol. Dissociative addition of HBr at a Fe-O bond proceeds through a trivial barrier of 8.2 kcal/mol with a fitted Arrhenius parameters of k(T) = 7.96 × 1011 exp(-6 400/RT) s-1. The facile and irreversible nature for HBr addition to Fe2O3 accords with the experimentally-reported 90 % reduction in HBr emission when Fe2O3 interacts with TBBA pyrolysates. A detailed kinetic analysis indicates that, transformation of Fe2O3 into iron bromides and oxybromides occurs via successive addition of HBr to Fe(Br)-O(H) entities. Elimination of a water molecule proceeds through an intramolecular H transfer. A direct elimination one-step mechanism operates in the dehydrohalogentation of bromoethane into ethene over Fe2O3. Dissociative decomposition and direct elimination channels assume comparable reaction rates in formation of acetylene from vinyl bromide. Results from this study provide an atomic-based insight into a promising thermal recycling route of e-waste.
Details
- Title
- Thermal recycling of brominated flame retardants with Fe2O3
- Authors/Creators
- M. Altarawneh (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityO.H. Ahmed (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityZ-T Jiang (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityB.Z. Dlugogorski (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.120(30), pp.6039-6047
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Identifiers
- 991005540905707891
- Copyright
- © 2016 American Chemical Society
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Engineering and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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