公开(公告)号：ID23361A

公开(公告)日：2000-04-20

申请号：ID990853

申请日：1999-09-09

Applicant: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY INC

Inventor： VASSILIOU VASILIS PAPA ,  WILLIAMS WILLIAM ROBERT ,  WAGNER MATTHEW LINCOLN

IPC: B01J10/00 ,  B01J19/00 ,  B01J19/14 ,  C07C45/33

Abstract: The amount of a ballast gas needed, to prevent combustion, deflagration, and/or detonations during a liquid phase reaction of molecular oxygen and a flammable process liquid, is reduced by using a ballast gas other than nitrogen. The ballast gas is selected to have a boiling point lower than the boiling point of the flammable process liquid and selected to produce a higher limiting oxygen value (LOV) in a mixture with the flammable process liquid vapor and molecular oxygen than the LOV for the corresponding mixture substituting just nitrogen for the inerting gas.