The activities, selectivities, and stabilities of nanoparticles in heterogeneous reactions are size-dependent. In order to investigate the influencing laws of particle size and temperature on kinetic parameters in heterogeneous reactions, cubic nano-Cu2O particles of four different sizes in the range of 40–120 nm have been controllably synthesized. In situ microcalorimetry has been used to attain thermodynamic data on the reaction of Cu2O with aqueous HNO3 and, combined with thermodynamic principles and kinetic transition-state theory, the relevant reaction kinetic parameters have been evaluated. The size dependences of the kinetic parameters are discussed in terms of the established kinetic model and the experimental results. It was found that the reaction rate constants increased with decreasing particle size. Accordingly, the apparent activation energy, pre-exponential factor, activation enthalpy, activation entropy, and activation Gibbs energy decreased with decreasing particle size. The reaction rate constants and activation Gibbs energies increased with increasing temperature. Moreover, the logarithms of the apparent activation energies, pre-exponential factors, and rate constants were found to be linearly related to the reciprocal of particle size, consistent with the kinetic models. The influence of particle size on these reaction kinetic parameters may be explained as follows: the apparent activation energy is affected by the partial molar enthalpy, the pre-exponential factor is affected by the partial molar entropy, and the reaction rate constant is affected by the partial molar Gibbs energy.
Graphical abstract In situ microcalorimetry, combined with theoretical models, was used to investigate the reaction kinetic parameters of cubic nano-Cu2O, and those effects of particle size and temperature were discussed systematically.
Activated carbon (AC), multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT), and cadmium hydroxide nanowire loaded on activated carbon (Cd(OH)2-NW-AC) have been used for the removal of safranine O (SO) from wastewater. The effects of various parameters including pH, temperature, concentration of the dye, amount of adsorbents, and contact time on the SO adsorption efficiency for all adsorbents has been investigated. Graphical correlation of fitting experimental data to various adsorption isotherm models like those of Langmuir, Freundlich, Tempkin, and Dubinin–Radushkevich for all adsorbents have been calculated. It was found that safranine O adsorption on all adsorbents was endothermic and feasible in nature. Fitting the experimental data to different kinetic models suggests that the adsorption process follows pseudo-second-order kinetics with involvement of the particle diffusion mechanism. 相似文献
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is an important intermediate during the conversion of fuel nitrogen to NOx. The mechanism of HCN oxidation to NO, N2, and N2O on the CaO (100) surface model was investigated using density functional theory calculations to elucidate the effect of in-furnace SOx removal on HCN oxidation in circulating fluidized bed boilers. HCN adsorption on the CaO (100) surface releases as high as 1.396 eV and the HC bond is strongly activated. The CaO (100) surface could catalyze the oxidation of CN radical to NCO with the energy barrier decreasing from 1.560 eV for the homogeneous case to 0.766 eV on the CaO (100) surface. The succeeding oxidation of NCO by O2 forming NO is catalyzed by the CaO (100) surface with the energy barrier decreasing from 0.349 eV (homogeneous process) to 0.026 eV on the CaO (100) surface, while the reaction between NCO and NO forming either NO or N2 is prohibited in comparison with corresponding homogeneous routes. The rate constants of these reactions under fluidized bed combustion temperature range are provided, and the calculation results lead to the conclusion that CaO (100) surface catalyzes the HCN conversion and improves the NO selectivity during HCN oxidation in the HCN/O2/NO atmosphere, which could well explain previous experimental observations. Kinetic parameters of HCN oxidation on the CaO (100) surface are provided in the Arrhenius form for future kinetic model development. 相似文献
In this paper, CaO sintering in the presence of water vapor for CO2 capture were carried out by ReaxFF(Reactive Force Field) molecular dynamics. The CaO sintering model was simulated at different temperatures (873 K-1273 K) and atmospheres (CO2, H2O), respectively. The results showed that water vapor could significantly promote the sintering process of CO2 capture by CaO. The Mean-square displacement (MSD) and Boltzmann–Arrhenius dependency were used to study the diffusion properties of CaO particles. The decreased diffusion activation Ea and increased pre-exponential factor D0 indicate that CaO particles have a stronger initial diffusivity and a lower diffusion barrier in the presence of CO2 and H2O. The inner and outer regions of CaO atoms were analyzed and it was found that the activation energy is the main factor to enhance the diffusion in the presence of CO2 for CaO sintering process, whereas the pre-exponential factor dominates with both CO2 and H2O. Water vapor enhanced the sintering pf CaO carbonation reaction is mainly achieved by promoting atoms in the inner layers of CaO particles. The types and numbers of sintering atoms during the sintering process were counted, and the distances between Ca and O atoms were calculated, which found that water vapor first dissociates into hydroxyl and H protons on the CaO surface, and the hydroxyl group will stay on the surface of CaO and combine with CO2, while the H proton will combine with O inside CaO to promote the sintering of CaO further. 相似文献
We obtain a chain of quantum kinetic reaction-diffusion-type equations for “adsorbate-substrate” system taking into account the coupling of a light particle with a metallic surface, the adsorbate surface diffusion by the tunnelling mechanism and the occurrence of bimolecular chemical reactions. We calculate the temperature dependence of the kinetic kernels related to the diffusion coefficients and the reaction rates. It is shown that one can alter the temperature dependence of the reaction rates by changing the “adsorbate-substrate” coupling. It is also shown that the mean field terms contribute to the activation energies of the reaction rates, while their contribution to the activation energies of the diffusion coefficients vanishes. 相似文献