Autoignition of Hydrogen/air Mixtures by a Thin Catalytic Wire
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The autoignition of the catalytic reaction of hydrogen/air mixtures on thin palladium wires is analyzed in this paper. The reduced heterogeneous kinetics is modeled with a mechanism that includes the dissociative adsorption of both reactants, together with three surface reactions of the Langmuir–Hinshelwood type, and the desorption reaction of the adsorbed product, H2O(s). We show that for the description of the ignition conditions, this mechanism can be simplified to a single overall surface reaction involving the temperature and gas concentrations of the reactants at the surface of the wire. The resulting overall rate for the surface reaction has been tested with existing experimental results, after describing the transport of heat and reactants, by natural convection, in the gas phase for a wide range of Rayleigh numbers. The critical conditions for the catalytic ignition have been deduced using high activation energy asymptotics for the desorption kinetics of the most efficiently adsorbed reactant, H(s).
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