Chemical reaction gas-phase

Decide on a network of chemical reactions gas-phase reactions surface of dust grains photochemical processing. 

Bimolecular elementary processes involve the collisions of two molecules, which we discussed in Chapter 9. We now show that such a process obeys a second-order rate law. The collision rate in a gas is very large, typically several billion collisions per second for each molecule. If every collision in a reactive mixture led to chemical reaction, gas-phase reactions would be complete in nanoseconds. Since gas-phase reactions are almost never this rapid, it is apparent that only a small fraction of all collisions lead to chemical reaction. We make the important assumption The fraction of binary collisions... 

The electrical characteristics of ceramic materials vary gteady, since the atomic processes ate different for the various conduction modes. The transport of current may be because of the motion of electrons, electron holes, or ions. Electrical ceramics ate commonly used in special situations where reftactoriness or chemical resistance ate needed, or where other environmental effects ate severe (see Refractories). Thus it is also important to understand the effects of temperature, chemical additives, gas-phase equilibration, and interfacial reactions. 

Chemical reaction rate, see Rate of reaction Chemical reactions condensed phases, 42-46 enzymatic, see Enzymatic reactions gas phase, see Gas-phase reactions heterolytic bond cleavage, 46, 47, 51,... 

The explosive phenomena produced by contact of liquefied gases with water were studied. Chlorodifluoromethane produced explosions when the liquid-water temperature differential exceeded 92°C, and propene did so at differentials of 96-109°C. Liquid propane did, but ethylene did not, produce explosions under the conditions studied [1], The previous literature on superheated vapour explosions has been critically reviewed, and new experimental work shows the phenomenon to be more widespread than had been thought previously. The explosions may be quite violent, and mixtures of liquefied gases may produce overpressures above 7 bar [2], Alternative explanations involve detonation driven by phase changes [3,4] and do not involve chemical reactions. Explosive phase transitions from superheated liquid to vapour have also been induced in chlorodifluoromethane by 1.0 J pulsed ruby laser irradiation. Metastable superheated states (of 25°C) achieved lasted some 50 ms, the expected detonation pressure being 4-5 bar [5], See LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS, SUPERHEATED LIQUIDS, VAPOUR EXPLOSIONS... 

Supercritical water (SCW) provides an additional phase for chemical reaction. This phase of water exists above the critical temperature (Tc) of 647 K and the critical pressure (Pc) of 221 bar and has physical characteristics between those of a gas and a liquid. 

Tk represents the rate of mass generation of phase k per unit volume. It is noted that the unit volume in this context is that of the gas-solid system. If a phase is defined in a physical sense such as the solid phase or the gas phase, Tk may be caused by chemical reactions or phase changes. On the other hand, when a phase is defined in a dynamic sense [Soo, 1965], Tk may result from the size change due to attrition or agglomeration in addition to the chemical reaction or phase change. From the mass balance of the mixture, we have... 

Chemical means include 1) modification of polymer morphology and structure modification of composition and relative amounts of material components, causing a variation of condensed- and gas-phase reaction kinetics and mechanisms, at their interface 2) affecting the flame with various chemical agents (gas-phase combustion inhibitors). 

Transparent titanium dioxide can be manufactured by various wet-chemical and gas-phase processes. The properties of the reaction products can vary greatly, depending on the reaction conditions and starting materials. To reduce the high photochemical activity of untreated transparent titanium dioxides, the pigments are coated with a variety of inorganic oxide combinations (e.g. of silicon, aluminum and zirconium oxides) [5.195]. 

Polymer surface modifications are omnipresent in applications where the surface properties of materials with favorable bulk properties are insufficient. By altering the surface characteristics using physical or chemical modification the desired surface properties may be achieved. Such treatments are required e.g. to enhance printability of films, the adhesion of paints, metal or other coatings, biocompatibility, protein resistances/reduced biofouling, etc. The diverse approaches met in practice include, among others, wet chemical and gas phase chemistry, plasma or corona, UV/ozone and flame treatments. In most cases surface chemical modification reactions take place that alter the surface energy in a desired way. For example,... 

Membrane gas absorption (MGA) is a gas-Hquid (G—L) contacting device that uses a microporous hydrophobic hollow fibre membrane element similar to the membrane contactors discussed earfter. The hydrophobic membrane barrier separates the gas phase from the absorption Hquid phase. The gas to be separated diffuses through the gas-fiUed pores of the membrane and is absorbed in the Hquid. Absorption is based on physical absorption or by a chemical reaction. Both phases should not mix in order for the operation to be efficient. 

The distribution of chemical between environmental phases is at the core of understanding enviromnental fate. Examples of environmental phase distribntions are those between air and water, between atmospheric particles and the gas phase, between plants and air, between soil and air, between suspended matter and the dissolved phase in water, and between groundwater and snbsnrface solids. On a fundamental level, the distribntion behavior of a chemical determines where a chemical is residing in the environment. It further influences the natnre and extent of the transport and transformation processes it will experience. The distribution of a chemical between gas phase and particle phase in the atmosphere not only determines by which mechanism and how fast the chemical is being deposited to the Earth s sitrface, bnt also further determines the type and rate of reactions that it will experience in the atmosphere. A chemical in a water body experiences very different behavior depending on whether it is dissolved in water or whether it sorbs to colloidal or sohd matter suspended in the water colimm. Similarly, the mobility and reactivity of a contaminant in the snbsnrface enviromnent depend strongly on its distribution between water and solids. 

We have previously focused attention on purely gas-phase chemical models, gas-phase models with accretion onto grains, and gas-phase models with both accretion and desorption. Gas-grain models, such as that of Aikawa et briefly mentioned above, differ from these models in that they include surface chemistry. For models with large numbers of surface reactions, either the simple rate equation treatment is used, or the rate coefficients /cab (see Eq. (1.74)) are modified in a semi-empirical manner to handle fractional average adsorbate abundances to an extent. The so-called modified rate treatment has been tested against stochastic methods in small systems of equations. 

Up to this point the equilibrium constants have been expressed in terms of partial pressures. However, for real gases the fugacities of the species should be used. If the pressures are low enough, the pressures themselves can be used, because at low pressures the pressure is approximately equal to the fugacity But many chemical reactions involve phases other than the gas phase. Solids, liquids, and dissolved solutes also participate in chemical reactions. How are they represented in equilibrium constants ... 

The SSB in the thermodynamic limit is just its simplest and direct observable case. In atomic systems there are a large variety of other SSB that are not even mentioned in many publications on SSB despite being widely used in studies. There are several types of processes in atomic systems in which the symmetry is reduced spontaneously, including the SSB mentioned earlier and considered later in a large variety of single-standing polyatomic systans (known as the JTE and PJTE), formation of molecules from atoms, formation of lower symmetry species in chemical reactions, gas-hquid and liquid-solid transitions, and phase transitions in solids (see Sections III and V-Vn). 

Catalytic gas-phase reactions play an important role in many bulk chemical processes, such as in the production of methanol, ammonia, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid. In most processes, the effective area of the catalyst is critically important. Since these reactions take place at surfaces through processes of adsorption and desorption, any alteration of surface area naturally causes a change in the rate of reaction. Industrial catalysts are usually supported on porous materials, since this results in a much larger active area per unit of reactor volume. 

Surface photochemistry can drive a surface chemical reaction in the presence of laser irradiation that would not otherwise occur. The types of excitations that initiate surface photochemistry can be roughly divided into those that occur due to direct excitations of the adsorbates and those that are mediated by the substrate. In a direct excitation, the adsorbed molecules are excited by the laser light, and will directly convert into products, much as they would in the gas phase. In substrate-mediated processes, however, the laser light acts to excite electrons from the substrate, which are often referred to as hot electrons . These hot electrons then interact with the adsorbates to initiate a chemical reaction. 

Gas-phase reactions play a fundamental role in nature, for example atmospheric chemistry [1, 2, 3, 4 and 5] and interstellar chemistry [6], as well as in many teclmical processes, for example combustion and exliaust fiime cleansing [7, 8 and 9], Apart from such practical aspects the study of gas-phase reactions has provided the basis for our understanding of chemical reaction mechanisms on a microscopic level. The typically small particle densities in the gas phase mean that reactions occur in well defined elementary steps, usually not involving more than three particles. 

The foundations of the modem tireory of elementary gas-phase reactions lie in the time-dependent molecular quantum dynamics and molecular scattering theory, which provides the link between time-dependent quantum dynamics and chemical kinetics (see also chapter A3.11). A brief outline of the steps hr the development is as follows [27],... 

Flere, we shall concentrate on basic approaches which lie at the foundations of the most widely used models. Simplified collision theories for bimolecular reactions are frequently used for the interpretation of experimental gas-phase kinetic data. The general transition state theory of elementary reactions fomis the starting point of many more elaborate versions of quasi-equilibrium theories of chemical reaction kinetics [27, M, 37 and 38]. 

Generalized first-order kinetics have been extensively reviewed in relation to teclmical chemical applications [59] and have been discussed in the context of copolymerization [53]. From a theoretical point of view, the general class of coupled kinetic equation (A3.4.138) and equation (A3.4.139) is important, because it allows for a general closed-fomi solution (in matrix fomi) [49]. Important applications include the Pauli master equation for statistical mechanical systems (in particular gas-phase statistical mechanical kinetics) [48] and the investigation of certain simple reaction systems [49, ]. It is the basis of the many-level treatment of... 

As it has appeared in recent years that many hmdamental aspects of elementary chemical reactions in solution can be understood on the basis of the dependence of reaction rate coefficients on solvent density [2, 3, 4 and 5], increasing attention is paid to reaction kinetics in the gas-to-liquid transition range and supercritical fluids under varying pressure. In this way, the essential differences between the regime of binary collisions in the low-pressure gas phase and tliat of a dense enviromnent with typical many-body interactions become apparent. An extremely useful approach in this respect is the investigation of rate coefficients, reaction yields and concentration-time profiles of some typical model reactions over as wide a pressure range as possible, which pemiits the continuous and well controlled variation of the physical properties of the solvent. Among these the most important are density, polarity and viscosity in a contimiiim description or collision frequency. 

Instead of concentrating on the diffiisioii limit of reaction rates in liquid solution, it can be histnictive to consider die dependence of bimolecular rate coefficients of elementary chemical reactions on pressure over a wide solvent density range covering gas and liquid phase alike. Particularly amenable to such studies are atom recombination reactions whose rate coefficients can be easily hivestigated over a wide range of physical conditions from the dilute-gas phase to compressed liquid solution [3, 4]. 

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