Shock Tube Studies of Formaldehyde Oxidation.

Abstract

Reflected shock waves were used to heat a variety of formaldehyde mixtures to temperatures of 1600-3000K at total concentrations near 5 x 10 to the power/cc. Formaldehyde decay was monitored by IR emission at 3.50 micrometers using both O2 and N2O as oxidant in mixtures highly diluted with argon. Other mixtures with added CO were monitored for oxygen atom production via the flame-band emission at 450 nm and for CO2 production via IR emission at 4.27 micrometers. These data were then compared to the results obtained from numerical integration of the rate equations based upon a likely mechanism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA064434

Entities

People

  • Anthony M. Dean
  • Don C. Steiner
  • Ron L. Johnson

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Calibration
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Detectors
  • Dissociation
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • High Temperature
  • Low Temperature
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Numerical Integration
  • Oxidation
  • Pyrolysis
  • Sensitivity
  • Shock Tubes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Spectroscopy.