Effect Of Alcohols

INTRODUCTION

In connection with the work being done on hydrocarbon hydrates in the physical chemistry laboratories of the University of Oklahoma, it became desirable to know what effect 2-propanol m1Iht have on the decomposition temperature of chloroform hydrate. The decomposition effect for ethanol had been 'determined by sampson (6).

Deaton and Prost (2) report the use of alcohols as inhibltors of hydrate formation In high-pressure natural las Unes. Alcohols are Injected into the Une to decompose any hydrate present or to inhibits formation and subsequent closure of the pipes by solid hydrate.

In some preliminary experiments with the l)'Stem water-chlorotorm-2- propanol, the question arose as to Whether or not 2-propanol would form a hydrate or inhib1its formation. Bampeon (6) had determined the decomposltion effect ethanol had on chloroform hydrate. Since literature searches and current investigations have indicated that ethanol does not form a lattice type hydrate, it was assumed that a...