A high temperature shock tube study of phenyl recombination reaction using laser absorption spectroscopy
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ArticleKAUST Department
Chemical Kinetics & Laser Sensors LaboratoryClean Combustion Research Center
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2020-08-14Online Publication Date
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2022-08-14Submitted Date
2019-10-31Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/664966
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The chemistry of first aromatic ring, i.e., benzene (C6 H6) and phenyl radial (C6 H5), plays a key role in the growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and ultimately soot formation. In this work, the self-recombination reaction of phenyl radicals was investigated over the temperature range of 950-1300 K and pressures near 1 atm by employing shock tube and laser absorption diagnostics. Phenyl radical was generated by the rapid thermal unimolecular dissociation of nitrosobenzene (C6 H5 NO), a clean precursor of C6 H5 radical. The reaction progress was monitored by detecting C6 H5 and NO simultaneously using visible laser absorption near 445 nm and mid-IR laser absorption near 5.517 μm, respectively. For the reaction C6 H5 NO → C6 H5 + NO (R1), our data show an excellent agreement with earlier reports. The high-pressure limiting rate coefficient, by combining all available data, may be expressed as k∞1 (T(K)) = 3.2 × 1066T-15.2 e-37743/Ts-1 . This work reports the temperature dependence of the absorption cross-section of phenyl radical at 445 nm for first time. Our experiments indicate that the self-reaction of phenyl radicals yielding biphenyl, C6 H5 + C6 H5 → C6 H5 C6 H5 (R2a), is a major channel. The rate coefficients of reaction (R2a) show a weak temperature dependence with an average value of k2a= (6.91 ±0.42) ×1012 cm3 mol-1s-1 in the temperature range of 950-1300 K. Our measured data, k2a ( T , P = 1.1-1.5 atm), are found to be close to the high-pressure limiting rate coefficients. Combining with the literature low-temperature data, the self-recombination reaction of phenyl radicals may be expressed as k∞2a (T = 300-1450 K) = 2.8 × 1017 T-1.44 e-540/T cm3 mol-1 s-1. The measurements of this study represent the first high-temperature direct experimental determination of the rate coefficients of this important prototype aromatic radical-radical reaction.Citation
Jin, H., Giri, B. R., Liu, D., & Farooq, A. (2020). A high temperature shock tube study of phenyl recombination reaction using laser absorption spectroscopy. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.164Sponsors
Research reported in this publication was funded by the Office of Sponsored Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
Elsevier BVAdditional Links
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1540748920302509ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.164