Gas-to-Liquid Phase Transition of PAH and PAH Cluster at Flame Temperatures
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Chemical Engineering ProgramClean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
high-pressure combustion (HPC) Research Group
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2020-04-28Online Publication Date
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Significant evidence has shown that soot can be formed from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) in combustion environments, but the transition of high molecular PAH from the gas phase to soot in liquid or solid state remains unclear. In this study, relationships between the boiling points of various planar PAH and their thermodynamic properties are systematically investigated, to find a satisfactory marker for the phase transition event. Temperature-dependent thermodynamic properties, including entropy, specific heat capacity, enthalpy and Gibbs free energy are simultaneously calculated for PAHs, using density functional theory and three composite compound methods. Comparing results indicate that the individual G3 method, plus an atomization reaction approach, produces the most accurate thermochemistry parameters. Compared to entropy, enthalpy, and Gibbs free energy, the specific heat capacity at 298 K is found to be a better marker for the boiling point of PAH, due to the observed linear correlation, predictable characteristics, and fidelity of accuracy as a function of temperature. The correlation equation: Y=10.996X+122.111 is proposed (where Y is the boiling temperature (K) and X is Cp at 298 K (cal/K/mol)). The standard deviation is as low as 16.7 K when comparing the calculated boiling points and experimentally determined values for 25 different aromatic species ranging from benzene to ovalene (C32H14). The effects of carbon number, structural arrangement, and partial pressure on the boiling point of large planar PAH are discussed. The results reveal that the carbon number in large planar PAH are the dominant factor determining its boiling points. It is shown that PAH containing about 60-65 carbon atoms are likely to exist as liquids in flames, although the partial pressure of such species is very low.Citation
Liu, P., Li, Y., Sarathy, S. M., & Roberts, W. L. (2020). Gas-to-Liquid Phase Transition of PAH and PAH Cluster at Flame Temperatures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01912Sponsors
Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) was supported by the KAUST Clean Fuels Consortium (KCFC) and its member companies. The authors gratefully acknowledge the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL) for providing the computing resources and technical support.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Additional Links
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01912ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01912