화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.114, No.35, 11430-11435, 2010
Clathrate Hydrates for Ozone Preservation
We report the experimental evidence for the preservation of ozone (O-3) encaged in a clathrate hydrate. Although ozone is an unstable substance and is apt to decay to oxygen (O-2), it may be preserved for a prolonged time if it is encaged in hydrate cavities in the form of isolated molecules. This possibility was assessed using a hydrate formed From an ozone + oxygen gas mixture coexisting with carbon tetrachloride or xenon. Each hydrate sample was stored in an air-filled container at atmospheric pressure and a constant temperature in the range between -20 and 2 degrees C and was continually subjected to iodometric measurements of its fractional ozone content. Such chronological measurements and structure analysis using powder X-ray diffraction have revealed that ozone can be preserved in a hydrate-lattice structure for more than 20 days at a concentration on the order of 0.1% (hydrate-mass basis).