Diffusion zones

CoAd Blood Testing oa Sickle Cell Anemia and Related Vl6-oAdeAS by AlienachAomatogAaphlc Methods. The CM-Sephadex procedure easily detects Hb-S and Hb-C at birth but the diffuse zone of Hb-A has on occasion been difficult to see. Substitution of CM-Cellulose for CM-Sephadex has yielded a superior mlcrochromatographlc method, and the compact, well-defined zones of the CM-Cellulose column facilitate the Interpretation of the results even though the amount of sample Is only 20% as great. The CM-Cellulose method Is as simple and rapid as the original CM-Sephadex procedure (27. 28). 

What we find is that the difference in diffusion mechanisms gives rise to the creation of new sites across the diffusion zone and actually causes a deformation in the solid because the Va defects pile up and finally... 

Mixing unit (left), diffusion zone (middle) and stacked silver catalyst platelets (right). 

Reactor type Multi-plate-stack with mixer-reactor sections Diffusion zone length 1 mm... 

Mixer + reaction platelet/housing material nickel-gold plated + silver/stainless steel Diffusion zone volume (= explosive volume) 0.042 cm ... 

Inspection of Fig. 15.3 reveals that while for jo 0.1 nAcm , the effectiveness factor is expected to be close to 1, for a faster reaction with Jo 1 p,A cm , it will drop to about 0.2. This is the case of internal diffusion limitation, well known in heterogeneous catalysis, when the reagent concentration at the outer surface of the catalyst grains is equal to its volume concentration, but drops sharply inside the pores of the catalyst. In this context, it should be pointed out that when the pore size is decreased below about 50 nm, the predominant mechanism of mass transport is Knudsen diffusion [Malek and Coppens, 2003], with the diffusion coefficient being less than the Pick diffusion coefficient and dependent on the porosity and pore stmcture. Moreover, the discrete distribution of the catalytic particles in the CL may also affect the measured current owing to overlap of diffusion zones around closely positioned particles [Antoine et ah, 1998]. 

Strictly speaking, the validity of the shrinking unreacted core model is limited to those fluid-solid reactions where the reactant solid is nonporous and the reaction occurs at a well-defined, sharp reaction interface. Because of the simplicity of the model it is tempting to attempt to apply it to reactions involving porous solids also, but this can lead to incorrect analyses of experimental data. In a porous solid the chemical reaction occurs over a diffuse zone rather than at a sharp interface, and the model can be made use of only in the case of diffusion-controlled reactions. 

If the reactant solid is porous, the reactant fluid would diffuse into it while reacting with it on its path diffusion and chemical reaction would occur in parallel over a diffuse zone. The analysis of such a reaction system is normally more complex as compared to reaction systems involving nonporous solids. Here also it is important to assess the relative importance of chemical reaction kinetics and of mass and heat transport. 

The reactant solid B is porous and the reaction occurs in a diffuse zone. If the rate of the chemical reaction is much slower compared to the rate of diffusion in the pores, the concentration of the fluid reactant would be uniform throughout the pellet and the reaction would occur at a uniform rate. On the other hand, if the chemical reaction rate is much faster than the pore diffusion rate, the reaction occurs in a thin layer between the unreacted and the completely reacted regions. The thickness of the completely reacted layer would increase with the progress of the reaction and this layer would grow towards the interior of the pellet). 

FIGURE 19.12 Considerations for the interpretation of SSITKA data. Case 1 Three formates can exist, including (a) rapid reaction zone (RRZ)—those reacting rapidly at the metal-oxide interface (b) intermediate surface diffusion zone (SDZ)—those at path lengths sufficient to eventually diffuse to the metal and contribute to overall activity, and (c) stranded intermediate zone (SIZ)—intermediates are essentially locked onto surface due to excessive diffusional path lengths to the metal-oxide interface. Case 2 Metal particle population sufficient to overcome excessive surface diffusional restrictions. Case 3 All rapid reaction zone. Case 4 For Pt/zirconia, unlike Pt/ceria, the activated oxide is confined to the vicinity of the metal particle, and the surface diffusional zones are sensitive to metal loading. 

For fast equilibrium chemistry (Section 5.4), an equilibrium assumption allowed us to write the concentration of all chemical species in terms of the mixture-fraction vector c(x, t) = ceq( (x, 0). For a turbulent flow, it is important to note that the local micromixing rate (i.e., the instantaneous scalar dissipation rate) is a random variable. Thus, while the chemistry may be fast relative to the mean micromixing rate, at some points in a turbulent flow the instantaneous micromixing rate may be fast compared with the chemistry. This is made all the more important by the fact that fast reactions often take place in thin reaction-diffusion zones whose size may be smaller than the Kolmogorov scale. Hence, the local strain rate (micromixing rate) seen by the reaction surface may be as high as the local Kolmogorov-scale strain rate. 

Evidence for this hypothesis can be formd in the rough correlation between 5 Mo and [Mo] in suboxic sediments (Siebert et al. 2003) Higher [Mo] is associated with 5 Mo approaching the seawater value, as expected from mass balance in a closed reservoir (the reservoir is the diffusive zone beneath the sediment-water interface in suboxic settings see following section). 

The meehanism of Mo removal in suboxie systems is unelear, and so the fundamental nature of this fraetionation requires further study. However, the effeet may be rmderstood in terms of a two layer diffusion-reaetion model in whieh a reaetion zone in the sediment (where Mo is ehemieally removed) is separated from seawater by a purely diffusive zone in which there is no chemical reaction (Braudes and Devol 1997). The presence of a diffusive zone is likely because Mo removal presumably occurs in suMdic porewaters that lie a finite distance L below the sediment-water interface (Wang and van Cappellen 1996 Zheng et al. 2000a). If HjS is present in the reactive zone such that Mo is removed below this depth, then Mo isotope fractionation in the diffusive zone may be driven by isotope effects in the reactive zone. 

An important consequence of such a model is that the effect of such sedimentary systems on the ocean Mo isotope budget is not represented by a, but rather by the relative fluxes of the isotopes across the sediment-water interface. This effective fractionation factor, is likely to be smaller than a (Bender 1990 Braudes and Devol 1997) because the diffusive zone acts as a barrier to isotope exchange with overlying waters, approximating a closed system. 

Carbon fiber or graphite fiber materials, available, for example, as felt, clothes, or paper, and so on, are state of the art for realizing conductive diffusion zones in fuel cells but also they can be used as electrodes. They attain a very high porosity (free space volume up to 80%) and a surprisingly good elasticity. 

Figure 7.3. Overlap of diffusion zones of cylindrical nuclei growing on a surface. Shaded regions indicate two zones overlapping black region, three zones overlapping.

In the present analysis, the outer convective-diffusive zones flanking the reaction zone are treated in the Burke-Schumann limit with Lewis numbers unity. Lewis numbers different from unity are taken into account where reactions occur. These Lewis-number approximations are especially accurate for methane-air flames and would be appreciably poorer if hydrogen or higher hydrocarbons are the fuels. To achieve a formulation that is independent of the flame configuration, the mixture fraction is employed as the independent variable. The connection to physical coordinates is made through the so-called scalar dissipation rate. 

The hot, partly combusted gases then come into contact with oxygen from the air and the final flame products are formed. This occurs in what is known as the secondary reaction zone or diffusion zone. This discussion refers to premixed gas flames with laminar (i.e. non-turbulent) flow of the gas mixture to the flame. 

The flux jA, relative to an external marker which we may fix outside the diffusion zone, is then... 

Fick s second law states the conservation of the diffusing species i no i is produced (or annihilated) in the diffusion zone by chemical reaction. If, however, production (annihilation) occurs, we have to add a (local) reaction term r, to the generalized version of Fick s second law c, = —Vjj + fj. In Section 1.3.1, we introduced the kinetics of point defect production if regular SE s are thermally activated to become irregular SE s (i.e., point defects). These concepts and rate equations can immediately be used to formulate electron-hole formation and annihilation... 

Transport plays the overwhelming role in solid state kinetics. Nevertheless, homogeneous reactions occur as well and they are indispensable to establishing point defect equilibria. Defect relaxation in the (p-n) junction, as discussed in the previous section, illustrates this point, and similar defect relaxation processes occur, for example, in diffusion zones during interdiffusion [G. Kutsche, H. Schmalzried (1990)]. 

Figure 5-13. Experimental vacancy distribution in the diffusion zone of the couple CoO-NiO, measured after increasing annealing times /, = l6min /2 = 45min f3 = 75min <4=l80min. T = 1300°C, in air [G. Kutsche, H. Schmalzried (1990)1. Nv = %-fraciion.

Let us present D explicitly for the condition d//0 = 0, omitting all details of the lengthy derivation. By application of Manning s random-alloy model [A. R. Allnatt, A.B. Lidiard (1987)], and by inserting Eqns. (5.126) and (5.131) into Eqn. (5.132), for a constant oxygen potential across the diffusion zone, a Darken type equation is obtained... 

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