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Parameters affecting thermal risk through a kinetic model under adiabatic condition: Application to liquid-liquid reaction system

Thierry Meyer
2018
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Risk of thermal runaway for epoxidation is not negligible and should be analyzed and assessed. In industry, epoxidation of vegetable oils is carried out by the oxidation of Prileschajew, involving the in situ production of percarboxylic acid from hydrogen peroxide and the corresponding carboxylic acid. Different research groups have developed kinetic models under isothermal or isoperibolic mode for this liquid-liquid reaction system. Nevertheless, none of them have built a kinetic model under adiabatic mode. Such kinetic model under adiabatic condition is important to evaluate the thermal risk of a process. During this study, a kinetic model was built for the epoxidation of cottonseed oil by peracetic acid by using ARSST system, which works under near-adiabatic condition. This kinetic model can fit the experimental reaction temperature. Then, based on this model, the influence of different inlet parameters (i.e. initial temperature and concentrations) on safety parameters, i.e., Time-to-Maximum rate under adiabatic conditions and adiabatic temperature rise was investigated.

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Thierry Meyer
2018
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/543bccce-cd4e-4d4b-825f-7e0681f940ac

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Adiabatic theorem

The adiabatic theorem is a concept in quantum mechanics. Its original form, due to Max Born and Vladimir Fock (1928), was stated as follows: A physical system remains in its instantaneous eigenstate if a given perturbation is acting on it slowly enough and if there is a gap between the eigenvalue and the rest of the Hamiltonian's spectrum. In simpler terms, a quantum mechanical system subjected to gradually changing external conditions adapts its functional form, but when subjected to rapidly varying conditions there is insufficient time for the functional form to adapt, so the spatial probability density remains unchanged.

Adiabatic process

In thermodynamics, an adiabatic process (Greek: adiábatos, "impassable") is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat or mass between the thermodynamic system and its environment. Unlike an isothermal process, an adiabatic process transfers energy to the surroundings only as work. As a key concept in thermodynamics, the adiabatic process supports the theory that explains the first law of thermodynamics. Some chemical and physical processes occur too rapidly for energy to enter or leave the system as heat, allowing a convenient "adiabatic approximation".

Geometric phase

In classical and quantum mechanics, geometric phase is a phase difference acquired over the course of a cycle, when a system is subjected to cyclic adiabatic processes, which results from the geometrical properties of the parameter space of the Hamiltonian. The phenomenon was independently discovered by S. Pancharatnam (1956), in classical optics and by H. C. Longuet-Higgins (1958) in molecular physics; it was generalized by Michael Berry in (1984). It is also known as the Pancharatnam–Berry phase, Pancharatnam phase, or Berry phase.

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