Globalized mechanisms for the oxidation of alkanes

So that the fundamental structures of the reaction mechanisms involving degenerate branchings can be demonstrated, only two globalized reaction mechanisms will be discussed here the detailed reaction mechanisms will be described in the following chapter. Moreover, the interaction of real chemical phenomena with thermal phenomena must not be forgotten (cf. 7). 

F is the fuel, P are the products of the reaction and X is an intermediate species. Reaction (126) describes the combustion of the fuel this is therefore a strongly exothermic reaction. Its rate law has been deduced from experimental data and is expressed in the following form  

Reaction (127) forms an intermediate X likely to give rise to the branching reaction (128) or to quadratic (129) and linear (130) terminations. The rates of these reactions are assumed to obey the law of mass action  

The net rates of chemical production of each of the constituents are deduced from the kinetic laws (131) and (132)  

The kinetic laws thus established allow the design of a reactor to be carried out by 

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