Mechanistic studies of heterogeneously catalyzed reactions of ammonia and acetic acid on platinum surfaces
The design and operation of a versatile microreactor capable of studying the rates of both steady-state and batch heterogeneous reactions on a wire, a foil or a single crystalline surface at pressures between 10/sup -7/ and 1000 Torr are described. The residence time distribution of the microreactor was characterized in order to evaluate the validity of using the continuous stirred tank reactor approximation to calculate reaction rates. Absolute reaction rates have been measured for both the catalytic decomposition of NH/sub 3/ and ND/sub 3/ and the NH/sub 3/ + D/sub 2/ exchange reaction over a polycrystalline platinum wire. The measured kinetics of the NH/sub 3/ + D/sub 2/ exchange reaction were employed together with adsorption-desorption parameters of NH/sub 3/, N/sub 2/ and H/sub 2/ to develop a mechanistic model that describes the reaction rate over the entire (wide) range of conditions studied. Steady-state absolute reaction rates are reported also for the catalytic decomposition of NH/sub 3/ on the Pt(110)-(1 x 2) single crystalline surface at pressures between 1 x 10/sup -6/ and 2.6 x 10/sup -6/ Torr and at temperatures between 400 and 1000 K. The decomposition of CH/sub 3/ /sup 13/COOH at 7 x 10/sup -4/ Torr on a polycrystalline platinum wire at temperatures between 300 and 900 K was examined in the microreactor. The major reaction products on the initially clean surface are /sup 13/CO, CO, /sup 13/CO/sub 2/, H/sub 2/ and adsorbed carbon-12. The catalytic dehydration of acetic acid to ketene was investigated over a graphitized polycrystalline platinum surface at pressures between 8 x 10/sup -7/ and 7 x 10/sup -4/ Torr and temperatures between 500 and 800 K. Reaction kinetics are reported for the determinations.
- Research Organization:
- California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7050801
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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