Building Models of Liquid Phase Kinetics and Separation: Hydrocarbon Autoxidation

Monday, November 8, 2010: 5:20 PM
151 A/B Room (Salt Palace Convention Center)
Richard H. West, Amrit Jalan and William H. Green, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

We present new methods for automatically generating and solving detailed kinetic models for liquid phase reactive systems, including solvation thermodynamics and diffusion kinetics. We also model phase separation of the reaction products. We further apply these methods to the autoxidation of a diesel fuel surrogate to investigate deposit formation.

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