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

S. S. Kumaran, Cabot Corporation

Co-Chair

Bihter Padak, University of South Carolina

Presentations

12:30 PM

(328a) Noninvasive Ultrasound Measurements of Temperature Profile Across Containments of Energy Conversion Processes
Yunlu Jia, Mikhail Skliar

12:45 PM

(328b) Generation of a Kinetic Mechanism for Thermal Cracking of Naphtha Using a 10-Species Surrogate
Amérika Arévalo, Juan Jose Arias, Astrid Ramírez, Alejandro Molina, July Carolina Vivas

01:15 PM

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

01:30 PM

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

01:45 PM

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