Dry oxidation

Anhydrous hydrogen chloride is not particularly reactive, either as a gas at ordinary temperatures, or a liquid (b.p. 188 K) and does not react with metals such as iron or zinc, nor with dry oxides. A few reactive metals such as sodium, will bum in the gas to give the chloride and hydrogen ... 

Sihcon dioxide properties depend on the techniques used for oxide growth. The index of refraction for dry oxides decreases when higher processing temperatures are used whereas the oxide density increases. 

The most common form of corrosion is uniform corrosion, in which the entire metal surface degrades at a near uniform rate (1 3). Often the surface is covered by the corrosion products. The msting of iron (qv) in a humid atmosphere or the tarnishing of copper (qv) or silver alloys in sulfur-containing environments are examples (see also SiLVERAND SILVER ALLOYS). High temperature, or dry, oxidation, is also usually uniform in character. Uniform corrosion, the most visible form of corrosion, is the least insidious because the weight lost by metal dissolution can be monitored and predicted. 

When used for ceramic heating, furnaces are called Idlus. Operations include drying, oxidation, c cination, and vitrification. These Idlus employ horizontal space burners with gaseous, hquid, or solid fuels. If product quahty is not injured, ceramic ware may be exposed to flame and combustion gases otherwise, muffle Idlus are employed. Dutch ovens are used frequently for heat generation. 

Now the formation and solution of Fe is analogous to the formation and diffusion of M" in an oxide film under dry oxidation and the formation of OH is closely similar to the reduction of oxygen on the surface of an oxide film. However, the much faster attack found in wet corrosion is due to the following ... 

In dry oxidation we quantified the tendency for a material to oxidise in terms of the energy needed, in kj mol of O2, to manufacture the oxide from the material and oxygen. Because wet oxidation involves electron flow in conductors, which is easier to measure, the tendency of a metal to oxidise in solution is described by using a voltage scale rather than an energy one. 

The most successful way of combating exhaust-system corrosion is, in fact, stainless steel. This is a good example of how - just as with dry oxidation - the addition of foreign atoms to a metal can produce stable oxide films that act as barriers to corrosion. In the case of stainless steel, Cr is dissolved in the steel in solid solution, and Cr203 forms on the surface of the steel to act as a corrosion barrier. 

Breakaway Corrosion—a sudden increase in corrosion rate, particularly under conditions of Iiigh-temperature dry oxidation. 

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In this paper we summarize some of the results of our measurements of rates of dry oxidation. Results of chemical analyses of residues produced by heating in flowing nitrogen atmosphere (distillation) are also reported and combined with our kinetic data to obtain values of kinetic parameters. Preliminary results of measurements of rates of wet oxidation are presented. 

Part 1. Kinetics and Energetics of Dry Oxidation. The simplest approach to data analysis is to assume that only a single class of oxidation reactions is important and to make the related assumption that the temperature dependence of the single rate constant k can be represented by an Arrhenius equation. In this way we obtain... 

On the basis of our kinetic results, our heats of oxidation mentioned above, independent heats of total combustion (Yan, H-k. Hepler, L.G. to be published), our chemical analyses, and the results of earlier investigations by others (11-15), we have developed a chemical model or picture of the dry oxidation process as follows. 

We propose that the complicated dry oxidation of bitumen can be represented as the sum of contributions from two classes of oxidation reaction. One class of reactions is the partial oxidation that leads to deposition of coke and formation of "oxygenated bitumen", with very little production of carbon oxides and water. This class of reactions is concisely summarized by... 

Table IV. Mass Balance of Carbon in Dry Oxidation, Expressed as Mass % Relative to Original Mass of Carbon (Distillation) and Available Mass of Carbon (Final Products)...

The mass balance for carbon during dry oxidation of bitumen in our calorimeter can be calculated from the above results in combination with some of our chemical results for oxidized samples reported elsewhere ( 2). This mass balance is summarized in Table IV, where the following relationships have been used ... 

Here "A" indicates products produced by thermostatting the calorimeter and its contents prior to oxidation and "ox" indicates products produced from the thermostatted samples by dry oxidation. The subscripts s and v refer to the phase (solid or vapor) in which the product remains or to which the product is transferred. Thus CA(s) rePresents the amount of carbon actually available as fuel at each temperature, CQX sx represents the amount of carbon remaining as oxygenated bitumen, represents the amount of carbon... 

Experimental conditions and initial rates of oxidation are summarized in Table V. For comparison, initial rates of dry oxidation at the same temperature and pressure of oxygen predicted by Equation 9 are included in parentheses. The predicted dry rate, measured dry rate, and measured wet rates are compared in Figure 2. The logarithms of the initial rates of heat production during wet oxidation increase approximately linearly (correlation coefficient = 0.92) with the logarithm of the partial pressure of oxygen and lead to values of In k = 2.5 and r = 0.9, as compared with values of In k = 4.8 and r = 0.6 for dry oxidation at this temperature. 

The results of the chemical analyses are summarized and compared in Table VI with similar results from dry oxidation. In comparison with dry oxidation at 225°C, wet oxidation at this same temperature leads to less residual coke. As shown by the molar H/C ratio, this residual coke is enriched in carbon. Less of the available carbon is converted to residual coke. 

Figure 2. Rate of heat production by wet oxidation relative to dry oxidation at the same temperature and pressure of oxygen.

First, the rate of heat production is again related to the sum of the rates of depositional and burning processes, and if the predominant factor affecting the overall rate is temperature, then it does not seem likely that the specific effect of water vapor on the oxidation reported here is chemical catalysis, since a lowering of activation energy for either process would result in an increase in the overall rate relative to dry oxidation. 

Second, the difference between the rates of wet and dry oxidation is dependent on p(02), being largest at low p(C>2) and essentially negligible at high p(02). Since p(H20) was held... 

This procedure illustrates the difficulties involved in interpreting experimental results when there are three variables, instead of two variables as in dry oxidation. 

Amorphous boron (not crystalline) ignites on heating in the dry oxide. 

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