Kinetics final stage

Others have presented the kinetics of polyamidation differently. At high water concentrations (5-10 mol kg-1), a second-order reaction is given with an activation energy of approximately 86 kJ mol-1.5 612 28 At low water concentrations in die final stages of die polymerization, a mixed uncatalyzed second-order reaction and an acid-catalyzed third-order reaction are observed. The rate constant k in (3.13) can tiien be written as... 

The kinetic models are the same until the final stage of the solution of the reactor balance equations, so the description of the mathematics is combined until that point of departure. The models provide for the continuous or intermittent addition of monomer to the reactor as a liquid at the reactor temperature. 

The various kinetic and thermodynamic factors involved in vinyl free radical polymerization have been considered for the case of a batch (or semi-batch) polymerization being carried out to very high conversion. In particular, computations have been done for the final stage of the reaction when monomer concentration is reduced from approximately 5 volume % to 0.5 volume %. 

Laubriet et al. [Ill] modelled the final stage of poly condensation by using the set of reactions and kinetic parameters published by Ravindranath and Mashelkar [112], They used a mass-transfer term in the material balances for EG, water and DEG adapted from film theory J = 0MMg — c ), with c being the interfacial equilibrium concentration of the volatile species i. 

Herrero and Abruna [25] have also studied the kinetics and mechanism of Hg UPD on Au(lll) electrodes in the presence and absence of bisulfate, chloride, and acetate ions. In the absence of the interacting anions (in perchloric acid), the Hg UPD was significantly controlled by gold-mercury surface interactions. In sulfuric acid solutions, the kinetics of the initial and final stages of mercury deposi-tion/dissolution was altered. The presence of two well-ordered structures at potentials below and above mercury deposition led to the formation of two pairs of sharp spikes in cyclic voltammograms. In the chloride medium, the voltammetric profile exhibited two sharp peaks and thus it was very similar to that obtained in sulfuric acid solution. Neither nucleation, nor growth kinetics mechanism was found to be linked to the process of formation/disruption of the mercury chloride adlayer. The transients obviously deviated from the ideal Langmuir behavior. 

The experimental curves in Fig. 2.9 are compared with the curves calculated according to the second-order kinetic equation for two different initial temperatures. The divergence between the pairs of curves at the final stages of the process reaches 15 %, while the experimental is less than 3 %. This proves that the equation is inadequate. On the other hand, a kinetic equation that takes into account the effect of self-deceleration fits the experimental data along the whole curve. Therefore, we can predict that the reaction in the system under discussion will be incomplete. 

The last two equations can be combined to describe a kinetic process with self-acceleration at the initial stage of the process and incomplete conversion at the final stage of the reaction. 

Initially this decay proceeds as usual e /Texp(—ck t), but then becomes essentially nonexponential and noncontact. Setting ct = 0 and using (3.44) in Eq. (3.45), one obtains for the final stage the famous Forster kinetics of dipole-dipole quenching [11,69] ... 

The fact that the reaction rates in solid phase synthesis are not drastically reduced, compared to the homogeneous reactions, indicates that the diffusion of the reagent into the polymeric matrix is not a limiting factor for the method. This has been confirmed by Andreatta and Rinkll9) in kinetic studies on both cross-linked and linear polystyrenes. This means that the intrinsic problems of solid phase synthesis arise from deviations in the linear kinetic course in the final stages of reaction due to non-equivalence of functional groups. 

Since the introduction of a mathematical model for sintering by Kuczynski [12] numerous other models have been proposed. Reviews of these sintering kinetic models are given in references [13—19]. This description of sintering kinetics is organized into initial, intermediate, and final stage kinetic models. 

Solid state sintering was discussed previously in this chapter. The sintering kinetics depend upon the rate determining step, which can be either viscous flow, grain boundary diffusion, or lattice diffusion. These sintering kinetics are summarized in Tables 16.4 and 16.6 for the initial and intermediate stage and Section 16.3.2.3 for the final stage. 

Griffiths and Skirrow [42] have discussed various estimates of the rate for (2) and concluded that it was around 10 1. mole . sec . The most recent value, based on the kinetics of the final stage of the oxidation at 60—80 °C (with large excess of aldehyde) [43], is lower, (1.2 0.2) x 10 1. mole" . sec. However, it is clear that 2 is high enough to ensure that RCO radicals produced directly or indirectly in the branching step will react by (2) rather than by (4b) or (4c) except at very low oxygen pressures. Thus reaction (3) for which the rate coefficient is [42, 62, 73]... 

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