Kinetic model for hydrocarbon‐assisted particulate boron combustion

R. C. Brown, C. E. Kolb, S. Y. Cho, R. A. Yetter, F. L. Dryer, H. Rabitz

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Abstract

A kinetic model is presented to describe the high temperature (1800 K < T < 3000 K) surface oxidation of particulate boron in a hydrocarbon combustion environment. The model includes a homogeneous gas‐phase B/O/H/C oxidation mechanism consisting of 19 chemical species and 58 forward and reverse elementary reactions, multi‐component gas‐phase diffusion, and a heterogeneous surface oxidation mechanism consisting of ‘elementary’ adsorption and desorption reaction steps. Thermochemical and kinetic parameters for the surface reactions are estimated from available experimental data and/or elementary transition state arguments. The kinetic processes are treated using a generalized kinetics code, with embedded sensitivity analysis, for the combustion of a one‐dimensional (particle radius), spherical particle. Model results are presented for the oxidation of a 200 μm boron particle in a JP‐4/air mixture at ambient temperatures of 1400 K and 2000 K. These results include temperature and gas‐phase species profiles as a function of radial distance and particle burning rates. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)319-332
Number of pages14
JournalInternational Journal of Chemical Kinetics
Volume26
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1994

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biochemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry

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