748. The kinetics of the oxidation of methane by nitrous oxide

Author(s):  
P. L. Robinson ◽  
E. J. Smith
1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 438-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASAYOSHI KOBAYASHI ◽  
HARUO KOBAYASHI

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignazio Renato Bellobono ◽  
Franca Morazzoni ◽  
Riccardo Bianchi ◽  
Emilia Simona Mangone ◽  
Rodica Stanescu ◽  
...  

Kinetics of photocatalytic oxidation of methane, ethane,n-heptane,n-decane, andn-dodecane, to yield intermediates, and photomineralisation of intermediates, to yield carbon dioxide and water, was studied in aqueous solution, by a laboratory-scale photoreactor and photocatalytic membranes immobilizing30±3wt.% ofTiO2, in the presence of stoichiometric hydrogen peroxide as oxygen donor. The whole volume of irradiated solution was4.000±0.005L, the ratio between this volume and the geometrical apparent surface of the irradiated side of the photocatalytic membrane was3.8±0.1cm, and the absorbed power 0.30W/cm (cylindrical geometry). A kinetic model was used, by which mineralisation of substrate toCO2was supposed to occur, by kinetic constantsk1, through one single intermediate, mediating the behaviour of all the numerous real intermediates formed in the path from the substrate toCO2(kinetic constants of formation of the latter beingk2). A competitive Langmuirian adsorption of both substrate and “intermediate” was also supposed to be operative, as expressed by apparent adsorption constantsk1andk2, possessing a, partly at least, kinetic significance. By Langmuir-Hinshelwood treatment of initial rate data, starting values of thekandKcouples were obtained, from which, by a set of differential equations, the final optimised parameters,k1andk1,k2andK2, were calculated, able fit the whole photomineralisation curve, and not only its initial segment, as the Langmuirian parameters do. The parameters of present work are critically compared with those obtained in two preceding set of studies relative ton-alkanoic acids and ton-alkanols. They are interpreted on the basis of a closer behaviour of hydrocarbons to alkanols, from the photocatalytic point of view, than to carboxylic acids are. Discussion of limiting effective quantum yields, and their comparison with maximum, theoretical values, are also carried out.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (15) ◽  
pp. 4117-4121 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. F. Liu ◽  
R. S. Liu ◽  
K. Y. Liew ◽  
R. E. Johnson ◽  
J. H. Lunsford

AIChE Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 2285-2294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Arena ◽  
Francesco Frusteri ◽  
Adolfo Parmaliana

Investigation of the kinetics of the oxidation of ethylene and of benzene showed that these reactions are peculiar in the following respects. First, the relation between the rate of reaction and concentration is such that the reactions possess no simple “order,” though the nearest integral value for the order is about the third of fourth. The rate increases very rapidly with increasing hydrocarbon concentration, but is relatively little influenced by oxygen; under some conditions oxygen may have a retarding influence. Secondly, the reactions can be slowed down by increasing the surface exposed to the gases. This indicates that the oxidation occurs by a chain mechanism. Thirdly, the rate of change of pressure accompanying the oxidation only attains its full value after an induction period, during which evidently intermediate products are accumulating. Accepting the fact that the oxidations are probably chain reactions, the relation between rate and concentration shown that the chains are much more easily propagated when the intermediate active molecules encounter more hydrocarbon than when they encounter oxygen. Following the view of Egerton, and consistently with previous work on the combination of hydrogen and oxygen, the working hypothesis adopted is that some intermediate peroxidised substance is responsible for the propagation of the chains. This being so, the question arises whether the peculiarities found in the oxidation of hydrocarbons will also be found with substances already containing oxygen. To investigate, therefore, the influence of chemical configuration on the mechanism of oxidation reactions the following series of compounds has been studied CH 4 CH 3 OH HCHO which represent the stages through which Bone and others have shown the oxidation of methane to occur.


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