The flame structure of burning spheres of liquid methanol

✍ Scribed by J.W. Aldred; Alan Williams

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 653 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(69)90102-3

✦ Synopsis

If acceleration of the reaction is considered to be a result of increase in temperature, the activation energy can be found as

E = -R A(ln A T):/ { A(1/[ To + AT])}

where To is the initial temperature of the gases. Calculation gives an unnaturally high value of above 1000 kcal/mole.

Absence of pre-explosion heating and the practically isothermal character of the explosion are in complete contradiction with the thermal explosion theory. A branched chain reaction does not req u ire any pre-explosion heating and can proceed as a 'cool' explosion. This is just the case observed.

G. A. KAPRALOVA and A.