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Title: Thermochemistry and kinetics in pyrolysis and oxidation reaction of oxygenate chlorocarbons, neopentane, and ortho-xylene
Author: Sun, Hongyan
View Online: njit-etd2003-115
(xx, 257 pages ~ 18.2 MB pdf)
Department: Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Program: Chemistry
Document Type: Dissertation
Advisory Committee: Bozzelli, Joseph W. (Committee chair)
Krasnoperov, Lev N. (Committee member)
Gund, Tamara M. (Committee member)
Malhotra, Sanjay V. (Committee member)
Ritter, Edward Robert (Committee member)
Date: 2003-08
Keywords: Computational chemistry
Themochemical kinetics
Elementary mechanism
Neopentane oxidation
Oxygenerated chlorocarbons
Ortho-xylene oxidation
Availability: Unrestricted
Abstract:

Thermochemical properties of chlorinated alcohols, chlorinated hydroperoxides and corresponding alkoxy, hydroxy alkyl radicals, peroxy and hydroperoxy alkyl radicals are determined by ab initlo and density functional calculations for modeling and optimization of complex chemical processes for combustion or incineration of chlorinated hydrocarbons. The entropy and heat capacities from vibrational, translational, and external rotational contributions are calculated by statistical mechanics, and the hindered rotational contributions to S°298 and Cp(T)'s are calculated by using direct integration over energy levels of the internal rotational potentials. The values of ΔHf°298 are determined using isodesmic reactions with group balance. Groups for use in Benson type additivity estimations are determined for the carbon bonded to oxygen and chlorine(s). Hydrogen bond increment groups for the chloroalkoxy, hydroxy chloroalkyl radicals and interaction terms for peroxy group with chlorine(s) are developed for group additivity approach.

The reactions of alkyl radical with oxygen are important rate controlling processes in the low and intermediate temperature chemistry of hydrocarbon oxidation, especially the chemistry which occurs prior to ignition in internal combustion engines and in cool flames. Thermochemical properties for reactants, intermediates, products and transition states in neopentyl radical + O2 reaction system are analyzed with ab initio and density functional calculations to evaluate reaction paths and oxidation kinetics. Rate constants to products and stabilized adducts of the chemically activated neopentyl-peroxy are calculated as function of pressure and temperature using Quantum Rice-RamspergerKassel analysis for k(E) and a master equation analysis for pressure fall-off An elementary reaction mechanism is constructed to model experimental OH and HO2 formation profiles.

Aromatic compounds are an important component of higher-octane automotive fuels and consequently they are present in emissions from incomplete combustion and other evaporation from solvents and fuels handling and storage. Oxidation reactions of ortho-xylene are studied to identify the important reaction channels of this class of highoctane aromatics. Elementary reactions, energy well depths, and absolute rate constants of benzylic radical derived from ortho-xylene, 2-methylbenzyl radical with O2, are determined with computational chemistry at density functional levels.


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