ADIABATIC DECOMPOSITION KINETICS BY NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION

Reactions with large negative enthalpy changes are often encountered in the chemical industry. Sometimes they give rise to technical dangers and hazards, including explosions. This investigation concentrates on examination of adiabatic temperature-time-curves and gives non-linear optimization procedures for obtaining kinetic parameters of simple decompositions, e.g. o-nitrobenzaldehyde, two types of autocatalysis, consecutive reactions and competitive consecutive reactions. The advantage of this computing method is that only differential kinetic equations are needed.