Abstract
AbstractThe pyrolysis of ethane (including the equilibrium behavior and the tendency to form secondary products) has been reproduced by calculations based on a reaction mechanism which includes the reverse of the chain propagating reactions as well as other hitherto neglected elementary reactions. Reverse reactions are important even at low conversion (1%); hence previous investigations of initial reaction rate have doubtful fundamental significance. Values of rate constants used in the calculations were taken mostly from the literature. Consideration was limited to reactions of methyl, ethyl, and hydrogen free radicals with ethane and its primary pyrolysis products. The results can be incorporated into reactor performance calculations to replace empirical reaction rate correlations and thus widen the range of conditions over which the calculations are reliable.
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