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Title: A shock tube study of the reactions of the hydroxyl radical with combustion species and pollutants. Progress report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10146855· OSTI ID:10146855

To extend the database of reliable high temperature measurements of OH radicals with hydrocarbons and other fuels and their decomposition products, we undertook, a research program with both experimental and computational tasks. The experimental goal was to design a procedure for measuring, at combustion temperatures, the reaction rate coefficients of OH radicals with fuels and other species of importance in combustion or propulsion systems. The computational effort was intended to refine the semi-empirical thermochemical kinetics/ transition-state-theory (TK-TST) procedures for extrapolating rate coefficients of reactions of OH with combustion species of interest, for predicting rate coefficients for species not studied in the laboratory, and to examine the ability of the theory to predict rate coefficients for different pathways in cases where the reagent possessed nonequivalent H atoms.

Research Organization:
Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles, CA (United States). Space and Environment Technology Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-87ER13812
OSTI ID:
10146855
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13812-T2; ON: DE93013181
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Aug 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English