MODELING CHAR OXIDATION AS A FUNCTION OF PRESSURE ...

List of Tables
Table 2.1. Test Conditions for Various High Pressure Oxidation Rate Measurements….19
Table 4.1. The Relative Error * (%) in the General Asymptotic Solution for m-th Order
Rate Equations Using Eq. (4.2)………………………………………….33
Table 4.2. The Relative Error* (%) in the General Asymptotic Solution for the
Langmuir Rate Equation Using Eq. (4.3)………………………………..33
Table 4.3. The Pattern of Error Associated with the General Asymptotic Solution for
both Types of Reaction Rate Equations…………………………………. 37
Table 4.4. Values of g(M T ) and f c (M T , m s )………………………………………………37
Table 4.5. The Relative Error* (%) in the Corrected General Asymptotic Solution for
m-th Order Rate Equations……………………………………………….38
Table 4.6. The Relative Error* (%) in the Corrected General Asymptotic Solution for
the Langmuir Rate Equation…………………………………………….. 39
Table 4.7. Comparisons Between Simpler M T expressions (Eq. 4.24 and Eq. 4.25)
and the Standard M T Expression for Langmuir Rate Equation (Eq. 4.3)
at Different Values of KC s ………………………………………………. 40
Table 4.8. The Relative Error* (%) in the General Asymptotic Solution for the
Langmuir Rate Equation Using the Simpler Modulus in Eq. (4.24)……..41
Table 4.9. The Relative Error* (%) in the General Asymptotic Solution for the
Langmuir Rate Equation Using the Simpler Modulus in Eq. (4.35)……..41
Table 4.10. Summary of the Uncorrected and Corrected General Asymptotic Solutions
for Predicting the Effectiveness Factor for m-th Order Rate Equations
and Langmuir Rate Equations…………………………………………… 44
Table 5.1. The values of n obs at different values of KC s based on the standard general
modulus and simpler general moduli……………………………………. 49
Table 5.2. The Values of Critical Pore Radius (Å) at Different Temperatures and Gas
Pressures…………………………………………………………………56
Table 7.1. Pore Structure Parameters in Modeling the Data by Banin et al………………92
Table 7.2. Results of Calculations of Reaction Rate and Reaction Order………………..94
Table 7.3. Conditions of the Large Particle Experiments………………………………..98
Table 7.4. Parameters Used in Modeling the Data by Mathias…………………………102
Table 7.5. The Experimental Conditions and Measurements by Monson (1992)………105
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