Fundamentals of nitric oxide formation in fossil fuel combustion. Quarterly progress report, 11 June--10 September 1977

Technical Report · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6811462· OSTI ID:6811462

Houser, T.

The quadrupole mass spectrometer was assembled and put into operation. Using this instrument, several spectra of mixtures of reaction products and of pure compounds of interest were produced. These confirmed that acetylene was produced in a much greater yield than methane, that diacetyline and buten-3-yne as well as vinyl cyanide and some acetonitrile are produced, and that the benzene yield is about 4 mole % of the pyridine decomposed. A corrected derivation for the rate constant of the HCN yielding step was also included which modified the Arrhenius equation for this step to K/sub 2/..cap alpha.. = 10/sup 11/./sup 0/exp(-63,400/RT) (s/sup -1/), where ..cap alpha.. is the proportionality constant used to describe the concentration of intermediate which converts to HCN.

• Research Organization: Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo (USA). Dept. of Chemistry
• OSTI ID: 6811462
• Report Number(s): FE-2018-9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
400800* -- Combustion
Pyrolysis
& High-Temperature Chemistry
ACETYLENE
ALKANES
ALKYNES
AROMATICS
AZINES
BENZENE
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
CHEMICAL REACTION YIELD
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRYOGENIC FLUIDS
DECOMPOSITION
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCYANIC ACID
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
KINETICS
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
METHANE
NONMETALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PYRIDINE
PYRIDINES
PYROLYSIS
REACTION KINETICS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SPECTROSCOPY
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
YIELDS