Reactions and Reaction Kinetics Models

The types of reactions involving fluids and solids include combustion of solid fuel, coal gasification and liquefaction, calcination in a lime kiln, ore processing, iron production in a blast furnace, and regeneration of spent catalysts. Some examples are given in Sections 8.6.5 and 9.1.1. 

The sulfation reaction, (D), in Section 9.1.1, is the second step of a process to remove SO, from the flue gas of a coal-fired utility furnace. The first step is the calcination of limestone (CaC03) particles, injected either dry or in an aqueous slurry, to produce CaO  

The first step is endothermic, and the second is exothermic. The (single-particle) kinetics of the overall reaction are relatively complex (Shen, 1996). 

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactions in electronics materials processing provide further examples. One is the deposition of Si from silane  

The regeneration of coked catalysts (Section 8.6.5) can be represented by coke burning with air  

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