2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Engineering for Combustion and Pyrolysis II

Topics covered range from detailed chemical kinetics and reacting flow simulation methods and experimental measurements through practical industrial engineering of high-temperature processes.

Chair

Kumaran, S. S., Cabot Corporation

Co-Chair

Padak, B., University of South Carolina

Presentations

12:30 PM

(328a) Noninvasive Ultrasound Measurements of Temperature Profile Across Containments of Energy Conversion Processes
Jia, Y., Skliar, M.

12:45 PM

(328b) Generation of a Kinetic Mechanism for Thermal Cracking of Naphtha Using a 10-Species Surrogate
Arévalo, A., Arias, J. J., Ramírez, A., Molina, A., Vivas, J. C.

01:15 PM

(328d) Oxidation Behavior of Biodiesel Surrogate Soot: Examination Using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), HR-TEM and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
Levinthal, J.

01:30 PM

(328e) A Kinetic Investigation of Coal Conversion to Metallurgical Coke: Influence of Particle Size, Density and Porosity
LeBlanc, J. R., Castaldi, M. J., Marinov, N., Quanci, J.

01:45 PM

(328f) Thermal Decomposition of High Molecular Weight Polyethylene to Obtain Low Molecular Weight Polyethylene Wax
D'Amato, M.