Simulation of thermal explosions in gaseous mixtures
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 2: Molecular and Chemical Physics
- Vol. 84 (12) , 1923-1926
- https://doi.org/10.1039/f29888401923
Abstract
Thermal explosions of three gaseous mixtures, (i) methyl isocyanide–ethyl isocyanide, (ii) methyl isocyanide–diethyl mercury and (iii) methyl isocyanide–di-t-butyl peroxide, at 350°C in a 2 dm3 sphere, are examined numerically. In case (i), the reactants appear to behave in an almost additive fashion, but in case (ii) the production of ethyl radicals from the diethyl mercury sensitises the explosion of the methyl isocyanide; however, in case (iii), the dominant effect is not a free-radical one, but an acceleration of the explosion due to the energy release in the peroxide decomposition.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: