Criticality Criteria for Various Configurations of a Self-Heating Chemical as Functions of Activation Energy and Temperature of Assembly
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 34 (1) , 46-50
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1731612
Abstract
In 1939 D. A. Frank‐Kamenetsky proposed a criticality criterion that is a dimensionless constant that varies only with configuration of the self‐heating chemical. In his studies of the equation equating power production as a function of temperature by the formula of Arrhenius and the power loss by conduction alone, he made a simplifying assumption. A Pace analog computer and an IBM 704 have been used to study the exact equation and it was found that the value of the F‐K criticality criterion is a slowly varying function of E/RT0 in the range from infinity to 30 but becomes a sensitive function for values of E/RT0 less than 30.Keywords
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