Oxygen partial pressure, effect

One feature of oxides is drat, like all substances, they contain point defects which are most usually found on the cation lattice as interstitial ions, vacancies or ions with a higher charge than dre bulk of the cations, refened to as positive holes because their effect of oxygen partial pressure on dre electrical conductivity is dre opposite of that on free electron conductivity. The interstitial ions are usually considered to have a lower valency than the normal lattice ions, e.g. Zn+ interstitial ions in the zinc oxide ZnO structure. 

Figure 8.4 shows the steady-state effect of po2 and imposed catalyst potential Uwr on the rate of C2H4 oxidation and compares the results with the open-circuit kinetics. The sharp rate decline for high po2 values is due to the formation of surface Rh oxide.13 Increasing UWr causes a significant increase in the oxygen partial pressure, po2, where oxide forms and thus causes a dramatic increase in r for intermediate (1 to 2.5 kPa) Po2 values. For low P02 values (reduced surface) the effect of Uwr is moderate with p values up to 2. For highp02 values (po2>Po2 > oxidized surface) Uwr has practically no effect on the rate. 

A molecule that has a prooxidant effect can be dehned as a molecule that can react with reactive oxygen species (ROS) to form compounds more deleterious to biomolecules than the ROS alone. Possible prooxidant activity of carotenoids was for the first time mentioned by Burton and Ingold. Since then, many other examples of loss of antioxidant activity or prooxidant activity have been illustrated and reviewed in the literature. Increasing oxygen partial pressure (PO2) and/or carotenoid concentration can convert a carotenoid from antioxidant to prooxidant. Thus, depending on the environment, the same molecule can exert either antioxidant or prooxidant activity. ... 

Palozza, P, Luberto, C, Calviello, G, Ricci, P, and Bartoli, GM, 1997. Antioxidant and prooxidant role of beta-carotene in murine normal and tumor thymocytes Effects of oxygen partial pressure. Free Radic Biol Med 22, 1065-1073. 

As the oxygen partial pressure increased above one-tenth of its present level the effect of the incoming UV radiation from the Sun upon it created an increasing ozone layer. This layer then became an approximately cyclic steady state 302 20, some 500 million years ago (see Chapter 3). It may well be that... 

Zone II combustion proceeds with partial penetration of oxygen, resulting in simultaneous variations in particle density and diameter as the pores closest to the particle surface undergo oxidation, in addition to the external surface of the particle. The ratio of the actual burning rate to the maximum possible rate if the entire particle was subject to the oxygen partial pressure at the external particle surface is known as the effectiveness factor. 

Eor illustration purposes, we consider here a simple scenario of this interplay. We evaluate the effectiveness factor at a fixed cell voltage and thus at a fixed rig. We can express the corresponding current density as a two-variable function, jg =f f, Sqi), where the reaction penetration depth, CL/ depends on rjg. This function can be used to determine the effectiveness factor, rcL- In the case of severely limited oxygen diffusion, the following relations for local oxygen partial pressure and current density can be obtained ... 

A key factor in the possible applications of oxide ion conductors is that, for use as an electrolyte, their electronic transport number should be as low as possible. While the stabilised zirconias have an oxide ion transport number of unity in a wide range of atmospheres and oxygen partial pressures, the BijOj-based materials are easily reduced at low oxygen partial pressures. This leads to the generation of electrons, from the reaction 20 Oj + 4e, and hence to a significant electronic transport number. Thus, although BijOj-based materials are the best oxide ion conductors, they cannot be used as the solid electrolyte in, for example, fuel cell or sensor applications. Similar, but less marked, effects occur with ceria-based materials, due to the tendency of Ce ions to become reduced to Ce +. 

Two types of catalysts have been proposed for the CPOM reaction copper and palladium. The catalytic properties of these materials show significant discrepancies with respect to by-product formation and the effect of oxygen partial pressure. The Cu-based catalysts display high selectivity for the CPOM reaction whereas for the Pd-based catalysts CO formation is significant. 

Effect of Oxygen Concentration. The effect of oxygen concentration on the conversion to anthraquinone and anthracene was also determined. As the oxygen partial pressure was increased, the ratio of anthraquinone to anthracene formed increased significantly (Table V). Thus, the data indicate that higher oxygen concentrations favor anthraquinone formation. 

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