Within the Temkin-type approach for two-step mechanisms, the problem of the rate-determining step (rds) and its possible shift on a nonuniform surface is reexamined. The nonuniformity concept is extended to its maximum limits and a new transfer rule is derived for the model's intrinsic linear free e
Two-step sequential reactions revisited
β Scribed by H.V. McConnaughey; G.S.S. Ludford
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-2180
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β¦ Synopsis
One-dimensional, steady flame propagation for a sequential, two-step reaction of the form A --, B --* C is considered. An earlier investigation of the problem by Kapila and Ludford [Combust. Flame 29:167 (1977)] determines that two separated flames generally exist and that their ordering is fixed by the ordering of the (disparate) magnitudes of the activation energies. The present work shows to the contrary that reversals of the flame ordering are quite possible, but that this is a subtle effect requiring attention to issues which are usually ignored in the theory of single flames.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
An interesting type of 2-step reaction is that illustrated by A(d, n)B\*, B\* + C + c, i.e., a direct reaction to a resonant final state B\*, which subsequently decays. We are especially interested in the situation in which the resonances B\* are sufficiently dense in energy that they overlap, T> D,