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Upper limit for the methane-oxygen initiation reaction in the presence of iodine-131 behind reflected shock waves

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5216523
A one-inch diameter single-pulse shock tube was used to study the rate of methyl iodide formation from 815 to 1151K via the reaction CH/sub 4/ + I ..-->.. CH/sub 3/ + HI with the observed rate constant k/sub 40/ = 10/sup 14/ /sup 5/ exp(-33.7/RT) cm/sup 3//mole sec. Tracer quantities of iodine-131 were used to follow the course of the reaction. At 1097K in a stoichiometric methane-oxygen reaction mixture with small amounts of iodine present, the methane-oxygen initiation reaction, CH/sub 4/ + O/sub 2/ ..-->.. CH/sub 3/ + HO/sub 2/, was not found to occur, thus putting an upper limit on the rate constant k/sub 2/ = 9.53 x 10/sup 5/ cm/sup 3//mole s. Mass-spectral analysis of the reaction products from the above experiment indicated that formaldehyde was formed; at 1097K oxygen was able to successfully compete with iodine for methyl radicals. The rate constant for the reaction, CH/sub 3/ + O/sub 2/ ..-->.. CH/sub 2/O + OH, was found to be k/sub 4/ = 3.96 x 10/sup 10/ cm/sup 3//mole s.
Research Organization:
Ames Lab., IA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-82
OSTI ID:
5216523
Report Number(s):
IS-T-984; ON: DE84007366
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English