异辛烷/正庚烷/乙醇三组分燃料着火的化学动力学模型

提出一个包括异辛烷、正庚烷和乙醇的三组分燃料的着火动力学模型, 该机理包括50 个组分和193 个反应. 通过路径分析和灵敏度分析, 给出了基础燃料在高低温条件下的不同反应路径和影响氧化过程的重要基元反应. 该机理预测的单组分(异辛烷、正庚烷、乙醇)燃料、双组分基础燃料和三组分燃料的点火延迟时间与实验值有很高一致性. 本文机理包含较少的组分数与反应数, 因而可适用汽油掺烧乙醇的多维计算流体动力学(CFD)数值模拟.     

Computer Simulation of the Kinetics of Complicated Gas Phase Reactions

Modern digital methods and powerful computers make it possible to simulate the time behavior of chemical reactions. These calculations can be performed on systems containing an almost unlimited number of elementary reactions. Generally, however, the reaction models used should contain only those elementary reactions which describe the bulk of the conversion. Such a reaction model may be obtained by reduction of the complete set of elementary reactions. Another possibility is analysis of the chemical system starting from conditions ensuring a simple chemistry, which is generally the case at low temperatures and low conversions. The reaction model may then be extended into the range of the reaction variables (temperature, time) of interest. Mathematical simulations may be helpful during the development of the reaction model, and sometimes even decisive. These methods were applied to the pyrolysis of ethylbenzene and n-hexane, and to CO oxidation. They yield information on the reaction paths, the importance of particular elementary reactions, and reaction stability. Furthermore, quantitative data can be obtained concerning the influence of single elementary reactions on the product distribution. The sensitivity matrix shows, e.g., whether the determination of kinetic parameters of an elementary reaction from kinetic data of the overall reaction is possible in principle, and how high the accuracy of the rate constants should be for simulation of the reaction. Both results are important for modeling chemical reactions.     

Kinetic model for hydrocarbon-assisted particulate boron combustion

A kinetic model is presented to describe the high temperature (1800 K < T < 3000 K) surface oxidation of particulate boron in a hydrocarbon combustion environment. The model includes a homogeneous gas-phase B/O/H/C oxidation mechanism consisting of 19 chemical species and 58 forward and reverse elementary reactions, multi-component gas-phase diffusion, and a heterogeneous surface oxidation mechanism consisting of ‘elementary’ adsorption and desorption reaction steps. Thermochemical and kinetic parameters for the surface reactions are estimated from available experimental data and/or elementary transition state arguments. The kinetic processes are treated using a generalized kinetics code, with embedded sensitivity analysis, for the combustion of a one-dimensional (particle radius), spherical particle. Model results are presented for the oxidation of a 200 μm boron particle in a JP-4/air mixture at ambient temperatures of 1400 K and 2000 K. These results include temperature and gas-phase species profiles as a function of radial distance and particle burning rates. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Kinetic modeling of aqueous phenol degradation by UV/H2O2 process

A dynamic kinetic model for the oxidation of phenol in water by an UV/H₂O₂ process is developed. The model is based on the elementary chemical and photochemical reactions, initiated by the photolysis of hydrogen peroxide into hydroxyl radicals. The model is validated by using experimental data obtained from the open literature for an actual UV/H₂O₂ process. Using those data and the developed kinetic model, kinetic rate constants for phenol intermediates, catechol and hydroquinone, are estimated. Moreover, the optimum initial hydrogen peroxide concentration is estimated by means of the validated model. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 40: 34–43, 2008     

Kinetics of oxidation of benzyl alcohols with molecular oxygen catalyzed by N-hydroxyphthalimide: Role of hydroperoxyl radicals

A kinetic study of the initiated oxidation of benzyl alcohol and cumene by molecular oxygen was performed. The oxidation rate was more enhanced with N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) in the case of cumene than that of benzyl alcohol. HOOH inhibits cumene oxidation and does not affect the rate of oxidation of benzyl alcohol. It was shown that termination chain reactions of phthalimid-N-oxyl radicals (PINO^•) does not occur with RОО^• and proceeds with HOO^•. A kinetic scheme of the process and an equation describing the kinetics of oxidation of benzyl alcohol in the presence of NHPI are proposed. Using the PM7 method, the thermodynamic characteristics of elementary steps of oxidation explaining the obtained results were calculated.     

Mechanism and thermochemistry of oxidation of HCl and HBr at high temperatures. The heat of formation of HO2

Using currently available thermochemical and kinetic data and estimation methods to analyze the thermochemistry and the kinetic parameters of the elementary reactions involved in the oxidation of HCl and HBr, reaction mechanisms are proposed which account for the previously reported reaction products, the rate law, and the kinetic data. For oxidation of HCl, two competitive pathways, the radical initiation by hydrogen abstraction and the fourcenter reaction pathway, were invoked to account for the observations. In the oxidation of HBr one must invoke a fast surface reaction of the type to account for the reaction.     

Kinetic modelling of the thermal oxidation of polyisoprene elastomers. Part 3: Oxidation induced changes of elastic properties

This paper is the third of a series elaborating a non-empirical kinetic model for the thermal oxidation of a sulfur vulcanized polyisoprene. Here, we try to identify kinetic parameters for post-crosslinking and reversion (“decrosslinking”) from torsion measurements, under nitrogen at temperatures ranging from 100 to 160 °C. The kinetic parameters relative to oxidative reversion (selective scissions on sulfur crosslinks) are also determined. Then a system of 13 differential equations is derived from the mechanistic scheme composed of 15 elementary reactions. Diffusion and reactions are coupled in the balance equation of oxygen in order to establish the degradation thickness profiles from which it is possible to determine the modulus profiles. The latter are used, through a composite mechanics model, to predict the global torsion stiffness of a rubber barrel. The results obtained at 100, 110, 130, 140, 150 and 160 °C are in good agreement with experimental data.     

The kinetics of the B2H6/O (3P) system at room temperature

An experimental study of the kinetics of the B₂H₆/O (³P) system at room temperature, is presented. Modeling was based on a multiple-parameter fitting process to a complex kinetic mechanism. The aim of the study was to propose and evaluate a preferred set of elementary reactions which might be important for the oxidation of boron-hydrides. In this study, relative concentration-vs.-time profiles of the radicals OH and BO₂ were measured in a low pressure flow reactor, by the technique of laser-induced-fluorescence. A range of almost two orders of magnitude in the initial fuel to oxygen ratio was covered, while the residence times of the gases in the reactor were up to 1 s. A comprehensive kinetic mechanism was constructed from the available measured and estimated data in literature. After the fitting process and dropping all of the reactions with negligible contribution, a 46 elementary reactions mechanism was obtained. In this mechanism, 27 reactions are not measured and their rate coefficients were used as the adjustable (within reasonable limits deduced from kinetic and thermodynamic considerations) parameters of the fitting process. Good agreement was obtained between all of the measured and calculated profiles. From sensitivity analysis it was found that only a limited group of these reactions highly contributes to the calculated concentrations of OH and BO₂. With only the highly contributing reactions and all the oxygenhydrogen reactions which are measured and relatively well known, a 30 elementary reactions mechanism was obtained. In this mechanism only 13 reactions are not measured and the agreement between the measured and the calculated profiles is still reasonable. To demonstrate the possible usefulness of the proposed mechanism, the rate coefficient of the reaction B₂H₆ + OH → B₂H₅ + H₂O which was not measured before, was directly measured in our experimental set-up. The rate coefficient that was obtained in the direct measurement is (3.3 ± 1.1) × 10¹¹ cm³mol^?1s^?1, in excellent agreement with the predicted one by the multiple-parameter-fitting process, which was 2 × 10¹¹ cm³mol^?1s^?1. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Extracting the mechanisms and kinetic models of complex reactions from atomistic simulation data

Determining reaction mechanisms and kinetic models, which can be used for chemical reaction engineering and design, from atomistic simulation is highly challenging. In this study, we develop a novel methodology to solve this problem. Our approach has three components: (1) a procedure for precisely identifying chemical species and elementary reactions and statistically calculating the reaction rate constants; (2) a reduction method to simplify the complex reaction network into a skeletal network which can be used directly for kinetic modeling; and (3) a deterministic method for validating the derived full and skeletal kinetic models. The methodology is demonstrated by analyzing simulation data of hydrogen combustion. The full reaction network comprises 69 species and 256 reactions, which is reduced into a skeletal network of 9 species and 30 reactions. The kinetic models of both the full and skeletal networks represent the simulation data well. In addition, the essential elementary reactions and their rate constants agree favorably with those obtained experimentally. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Electrooxidation of CO(ad) intermediated from methanol oxidation on polycrystalline Pt electrode

The poisonous intermediate of methanol oxidation on a Pt electrode was validated to be CO(ad) by electrochemical method. An approximate treatment to bimolecular elementary reactions on an electrode was advanced and then was applied to the stripping normal pulse voltammetry (NPV) for complex multistep multielectron transfer processes on plane electrodes to study the kinetics of completely irreversible process of CO(ad) oxidation to CO2. The kinetic parameters for this process, such as standard rate constant (k0) and anodic transfer coefficient (alpha) for this irreversible heterogeneous electron-transfer process at electrode/solution interface and apparent diffusion coefficient (D(app)) for charge-transfer process within the monolayer of CO(ad) on electrode surface, were obtained with stripping NPV method. The effect of the approximate treatment on the kinetic parameters was also analyzed.     

Reactivity and mechanism of the action of C<Subscript>60</Subscript> fullerene used as an inhibitor for the radical chain oxidation of 1,4-dioxane

The kinetics and mechanism of the antioxidative action of С₆₀ fullerene are studied via highly sensitive manometry and kinetic spectrophotometry, based on the example of a model reaction of the initiated oxidation of 1,4-dioxane. The adequacy of the proposed mechanism according to the experimental data is analyzed by means of mathematical modeling. The mechanism behind the inhibiting process is found to be a multi-center radical reaction. The rate constants of the elementary stages are determined.     

Liquid-phase oxidation of cyclohexane. Elementary steps in the developed process,reactivity, catalysis,and problems of conversion and selectivity

The literature data concerning features of the kinetics and mechanisms of elementary steps of liquid-phase oxidation of cyclohexane and its oxygen derivatives are considered and analyzed. A comparison of rates of intermolecular and intramolecular reactions of cyclohexylperoxyl radicals under the industrial conditions indicated a necessity to take into account intramolecular interactions. The occurrence of cross recombination of hydroperoxyl and α-hydroxyperoxyl radicals without chain termination in the course of cyclohexanol and 2-hydroxycyclohexanol oxidation was proved. A significance of degenerate branching reactions involving cyclohexyl hydroperoxide in the industrial process of cyclohexane oxidation at 423 K was evaluated. The influence of the electron-withdrawing functional groups on the reactivity of carbon–hydrogen bonds of organic compounds in the reactions with electrophilic peroxyl radicals was studied. The low conversion of a substrate in the industrial process are mainly caused by the radicalchain oxidation of cyclohexanone leading only to by-products. The catalysts of cyclohexane oxidation, viz., compounds of variable valence metals, affect the reaction rate and ratio of the yields of the target products (cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, cyclohexanol, and cyclohexanone) but exert no effect on their relative reactivity. The use of the catalytic additives increasing the yield of cyclohexanone in the step of cyclohexane oxidation in the production of caprolactam is revealed to be inexpedient.     

Model of the catalytic reaction 2H<Subscript>2</Subscript> + O<Subscript>2</Subscript> → H<Subscript>2</Subscript>O with the participation of molecules in a precursor state

The absence of experimental evidence for the occurrence of the catalytic reaction 2H₂ + O₂ → 2H₂O on platinum in accordance with the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism was established. It was found that the heterogeneous process can be described more adequately and its nature can be better understood with consideration for chemical transformations involving molecules in a precursor state in a model of the above reaction. The inverse kinetic problem was solved. It was found that the model in which an unambiguously specified set of rate constants for the elementary steps of the reaction was used provided an opportunity to describe experimental data obtained by various authors concerning the oxidation of hydrogen on platinum over the detonating gas pressure range 10^?3-10⁵ Pa. The signs of the occurrence of heterogeneous reactions by an adsorption mechanism were found.     

The comparison of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms: Application to the combustion of methane

Detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms of complex chemical phenomena may be composed of hundreds of species and thousands of individual elementary reactions. It can be an extremely laborious and error‐prone procedure to compare two of these mechanisms, particularly if they come from different sources. We have created software tools which help to highlight the differences between mechanisms written in a Chemkin format and demonstrate their applicability to five literature mechanisms describing the high temperature oxidation of methane. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 36:467–471, 2004     

The role of local motions in the kinetic peculiarities of atomic tunneling in solids

The kinetic data on the simplest reactions occurring at low temperatures in solids are considered. All reactions are stimulated by molecular motions whose frequency substantially exceeds that of the diffusion displacements of particles. In all of the cases the reaction zone radius is about 10 Å. A model of the elementary chemical act in the solid, particularly the tunneling one, used to account for experiment is discussed.     

Role of Radical Elimination Reactions with Concerted Fragmentation in the Chain Decomposition of Alkyl Nitrates

The reactions X? + HCR₂ONO₂ → XH + R₂C=O + ?NO₂ are very exothermic due to the cleavage of the weak N?O bond and the formation of the energy-intensive C=O bond. The quantum chemical calculation of the transition state of these reactions for X? = Et? and EtO? used as examples showed that they actually proceed in one elementary act as eliminations with concerted fragmentation. The kinetic parameters were estimated within the framework of the intersecting parabolas model; the parameters allow the calculation of the activation energy and rate constant from the enthalpy of the above reaction. For a series of reactions involving the Et?, EtO?, RO?₂, and ?NO₂ radicals, on the one hand, and a number of alkyl nitrates, on the other, their enthalpies, activation energies, and rate constants were calculated. Based on the data obtained, new kinetic schemes of the chain decomposition of alkyl nitrates involving eliminations with fragmentation were proposed.     

Mechanisms of synthesis of maleic and succinic anhydrides by carbonylation of acetylene in solutions of palladium complexes

The mechanism of synthesis of maleic and succinic anhydrides from acetylene and CO in the PdBr₂−LiBr-organic solvent catalytic system was studied using the procedure of advancement and discrimination of hypotheses. The hypotheses were obtained using the data bank on elementary steps and the Combl combinatorial program. The discrimination of the hypotheses was based on the data of NMR and IR spectroscopy, studies of isotope exchange, the role of potential organic intermediates, the kinetic isotope effect, and one-factor kinetic experiments. The most probable mechanism of synthesis of maleic anhydride includes insertion of acetylene and CO into the Pd−Pd bond of the Pd^I complex, which is formed from Pd^II at the initial step of the process. Succinic anhydride results from the intramolecular transformation of the hydride complex of palladium and maleic anhydride. The palladium hydride complexes detected in the contact solution apparently play the crucial role in the conjugation of oxidation, reduction, and addition type reactions. Dedicated to the memory of Academician M. E. Vol'pin timed to his 75th birthday. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1104–1115, June, 1998.     

A kinetic model for limonene oxidation

The kinetic regularities of the autooxidation of R(+)−limonene (LH) were experimentally studied at various temperatures. A kinetic model including the main elementary reactions and the corresponding rate constants was developed. The degenerate chain branching during limonene oxidation proceeds via bimolecular reactions and involves hydroperoxide LOOH + LH → L· + LO· + H₂O and LOOH + LOOH → LO· + LO₂ · + H₂O. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 80–86, January, 2008.