The reactivity of sulphur dioxide towards oxygenated free radicals

✍ Scribed by C.F Cullis; R.M Henson; D.L Trimm

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 305 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(67)90118-6

✦ Synopsis

Dep;srm~cnt of Chemical Engineering and Chcmica~ Tec~.ology. !roper,at t'ollegc. London, S.W.7 Studtcs Ita~,c been n~ade of the ext~.rtt to v.hich sulph~lr d~ox~dc is ¢on.,,uraed in li.e. prc-,ence of dccompo.,d,tg byd,';~gcn ~'ro~d¢ vapour and of rcacttng organic fuel plus oxygen mixturc~ The sy,~te~s cl-t~ .,en all invol'~'c lh¢ formation fd," o,~3g~.~-t.'onl:uning fete." rztdic:fl~, which are potenlial o,~dants of sulphur diox,dc. No ;:: :prcciablc Io~s of sulphur dioxtde ~as detcct~xl except when nitric oxide uasalso present or when ignition took n~ ce. These results ",uggc..,I l~al a: i~.n~pe~a~rc,.~p Ic, 7(10 C lh¢ talc of reaction of sulphur dioxgd¢ with oxygcn-¢onl,mung r:idic~ts (olher lhat~ oxygen at~m.,~ i,, aegli~ib, e. Sulphur dioxide exerts a v~.dl-del~n~:d inhib~!~ng influence on lh¢ explosive ,.x,datlon of organic f~ct< and ~1~ eilcct ~ dtrcx.-tly proporl,onal tO the number of (" C hond'~ ~n the fuel ffioleciale.