THE VAPORIZATION OF PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE

Abstract

The vaporization of pyrolytic graphite was studied by the Knudsen effusion and Langmuir free vaporization techniques using a microbalance and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Vapor pressures were obtained in the temperature range 2417K - 2700K for C, C sub 2, and C sub 3; respective heats of vaporization were calculated by the third-law method. Langmuir vaporization measurements were carried out in the temperature range 2250K - 2760K. The ratios of vaporization coefficients obtained from mass spectroscopic measurements are: alpha sub 2/alpha sub 1 = 2.1, alpha sub 1/alpha sub 3 = 10.6. Use of vapor pressure data and vaporization rates was made to arrive at an overall vaporization coefficient equal to 0.095 and individual values of alpha sub 1 = 0.24, alpha sub 2 = 0.50 and alpha sub 3 = 0.023.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0633611

Entities

People

  • P. D. Zavitsanos

Organizations

  • General Electric

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Free Energy
  • Graphitic Materials
  • Heat Energy
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Microbalances
  • Optical Pyrometers
  • Spectrometers
  • Sublimation
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Vaporization

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  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.