Lors de la fusion du verre, de nombreuses petites bulles de gaz sont produites. L’affinage du verre a pour objectif de faire disparaitre ces bulles par l’ajout d’espèces réactives contribuant à la résorption des bulles ou à une augmentation de leur taille. La modélisation de l’hydrodynamique et des transferts nécessite l’étude des couplages entre convection, diffusion et réaction. Une approche locale à l’échelle de la bulle (simulation directe du transfert réactif et de l’écoulement) est utilisée pour déterminer le transfert interfacial. Des mesures de la propagation de fronts d’oxydation dans la fonte ont permis de préciser certaines propriétés physiques des espèces réactives. L’ensemble de cette analyse multi-échelles a contribué à l’élaboration d’un modèle de simulation d’un nuage de bulles / Many bubbles are generated during glass production. Due to the high viscosity of molten glass, their rising velocity is extremely low. The refining step consists in adding reactive agents to improve the glass quality. Bubble release is enhanced by chemical reaction (iron and sulfate oxidation-reduction) which will favor shrinkage or growth of bubbles through interfacial mass transfer. Better understanding of bubble cloud behavior in molten glass requires studying the interplay between convection, diffusion and chemical reactions. The direct numerical simulation of the flow and reactive mass transfer provided new insights on modeling interfacial bubble gas fluxes. The acceleration factor has been determined for simple reversible reactions in order to validate the simulation tool. Different Péclet and Damkhöler numbers have been tested to map all the different regimes (diffusion, convection and reaction). Together with those simulations, we have carried out series of experiments in molten glass : propagation of oxidation fronts. At different temperatures and for various glass compositions, we have determined physical properties of reactive species. A theoretical model of reactive transport for instantaneous reactions has been proposed to interpret experimental data. The core of this multi-scale analysis contributed to elaborating an Euler- Lagrange model to simulate bubble clouds in reactive media. This model has been applied to specific processes related to glass industry and can easily be extended to any reactive bubbly flows

Yim Wai-leung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / THESIS COMMITTEE --- p.ii / ABSTRACT (English version) --- p.iii / ABSTRACT (Chinese version) --- p.v / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.vi / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.ix / LIST OF TABLES --- p.xi / Chapter CHAPTER 1. --- General Introduction / Chapter Section 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Section 1.2 --- Electronic Structure Calculation / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Density Functional Theory --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- "Exchange, Correlation and the Local Density Approximation" --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Bloch's Theorem and Plane Wave Basis Set --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.4 --- The Pseudopotential Approximation --- p.10 / Chapter Section 1.3 --- Molecular Dynamics / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Molecular Dynamics --- p.12 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Nose Thermostat / Chapter 1.3.2.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 1.3.2.2 --- Feedback Method --- p.15 / Chapter Section 1.4 --- Case Studies / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Thermal properties of small silver clusters --- p.18 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Thermal decomposition channels of NTO --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER 2. --- Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study on Agn (n=4-6) / Chapter Section 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.22 / Chapter Section 2.2 --- Computational Method --- p.24 / Chapter Section 2.3 --- Results and Discussion / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Ag2 --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Ag4 --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Ag5 --- p.36 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Ag6 --- p.45 / Chapter Section 2.4 --- Summary --- p.49 / Chapter CHAPTER 3. --- Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study on Thermal Decomposition of NTO / Chapter Section 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.52 / Chapter Section 3.2 --- Computation Details --- p.55 / Chapter Section 3.3 --- Results and Discussion / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Comparison of the Quantum Calculations by VASP and Gaussian98 --- p.56 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Exploring the Reaction Channels --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3.2.1 --- Hydrogen-transfer Activation --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3.2.2 --- Homolytic Cleavage of C-N02 Bond --- p.63 / Chapter 3.3.2.3 --- Nitro-nitrite Rearrangement --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.2.4 --- Direct Ring Rupture --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Energetic Consideration --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Activation Barriers --- p.70 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Summary --- p.72 / REFERENCES --- p.73

The kinetics and mechanism of the reactions of (tmpa)W-(CO)^ and (tmen)W(CO)^ (tmpa = N,N,N',N'-tetramethy1-1,3-diaminopropane and tmen = N,N,N1,N1-tetramethylethylenediamine) with four phosphorus donor ligands (triisopropyl phosphite, triphenyl phosphite, triphenylphosphine and "constrained phosphite", 4-methyl-2,6,7-trioxa-l-phosphabicylo[2.2.2]octane) in xylene have been investigated in detail. These reactions were found to take place by the ring-opening of the bidentate ligand in a reversible step which leads to the formation of a five-coordinate intermediate of the type [(h^-tmpa)W(CO)or [(h^-tmen)W(CO). The intermediate then reacts with one molecule of phosphorus ligand, L, to form a six-coordinate intermediate, which can either expel the bidentate ligand and react with another molecule of L leading to the formation of a new disubstituted tungsten tetracarbonyl or go through a ring-reclosure step to form a seven-coordinate activated com-2 2plex or intermediate of the type [(h -tmpa)W(CO)^(L)] or [(h - tmen)W(CO)^(L)] which then regenerates the substrate through the expulstion of the L molecule. This mechanism is consistent with the observed rate behavior in these systems. For the reaction of (tmpa)W(CO)^ with the "constrained phosphite", an intermediate of the type [(h1-tmpa)W(CO)4P(OCH2)3CCH3] was isolated and identified.

We studied the effect of a first order irreversible chemical reaction on mass transfer for two-phase flow systems in which the continuous phase is a fluid and the dispersed phase consists in catalystspherical particles. The reactive solute is transported by the fluid flow and penetrates through the particle surface by diffusion. The chemical reaction takes place within the bulk of the particle. Wehandle the problem by coupling mass balance equations for internal-external transfer with two boundary conditions: continuity of concentration and mass flux at the particle surface. We start with the case of a single isolated sphere. We propose a model to predict mass transfer coefficient (`reactive' Sherwood number) accounting for the external convection-diffusion along with internal diffusion-reaction. We validate the model through comparison with fully resolved Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) performed by means of a boundary-fitted mesh method. For the simulation of multi-particle systems, we implemented a Sharp Interface Method to handle strong concentration gradients. We validate the implementation of the method thoroughly thanks to comparison with existing analytical solutions in case of diffusion, diffusion-reaction and by comparison with previously established correlations for convection-diffusion mass transfer. In case of convectiondiffusion- reaction, we validate the method and we evaluate its accuracy through comparisons with single particle simulations based on the boundary-fitted method. Later, we study the problem of three aligned-interacting spheres with internal chemical reaction. We propose a `reactive' Sherwood number model based on a known non-reactive prediction of mass transfer for each sphere. We validate the model by comparison with direct numerical simulations for a wide range of dimensionless parameters. Then, we study the configuration of a fixed bed of catalyst particles. We model the cup-mixing concentration profile, accounting for chemical reaction within the bed, and the mean surface and volume concentration profiles of the particles. We introduce a model for `reactive' Sherwood number that accounts for the solid volume fraction, in addition to the aforementioned effects. We compare the model to numerical simulations to evaluate its limitations

Mathematical models were developed to understand cavity growth mechanisms, heat and mass transfer in combination with chemical reaction, and the factors which affect gas production from an underground coal gasifier. A model for coal gasification in a one-dimensional spatial domain was developed and validated through comparison with experimental measurements of the pyrolysis of large coal particles and cylindrical coal blocks. The effects of changes in operating conditions and coal properties on cavity growth were quantified. It was found that the operating conditions which have the greatest impact on cavity growth are: temperature, water influx, pressure and gas composition, while the coal properties which have the greatest impact are: the thermo-mechanical behaviour of the coal, the coal composition and the thickness of the ash layer. Comparison of the model results with estimates from field scale trials, indicate that the model predicts growth rates with magnitudes comparable to those observed. Model results with respect to the effect of ash content, water influx and pressure are in agreement with trends observed in field trials. A computational fluid dynamics model for simulating the combined transport phenomena and chemical reaction in an underground coal gasification cavity has been developed. Simulations of a two-dimensional axi-symmetric cavity partially filled with an inert ash bed have shown that when the oxidant is injected from the bottom of the cavity, the fluid flow in the void space is dominated by a single buoyancy force due to temperature gradients established by the combustion of volatiles produced from the gasification of carbon at the cavity walls. Simulations in which the oxidant was injected from the top of the cavity reveal a weak fluid circulation due to the absence of strong buoyancy forces, leading to poor gasification performance. A channel model of gas production from underground coal gasification was developed, which incorporates a zero-dimensional cavity growth model and mass transfer due to natural convection. A model sensitivity study is presented and model simulations elucidate the effects of operating conditions and coal properties on gas production.

Polyyne molecules were produced as a result of the femtosecond laser irradiation of liquid acetone (CH3)2CO and alkane molecules hexane C6H14 and octane C8H18 using 800 nm, 100 fs duration pulses. These polyynes have been detected as a Raman band in irradiated liquid from 1800 to 2200 cm−1. Polyyne molecules generally detected as a Raman band in SERS experiment are C8H2, C10H2, C12H2 and C14H2. Two well established experimental techniques, time of flight mass spectrometry and surface enhanced Raman spectrometry were used to identify positively polyyne formation as a result of femtosecond laser irradiation of acetone and alkane liquids. Small polyynes C2H2, C4H2, and C6H2 were positively detected in the time of flight mass spectrometer TFMS, while longer polyynes from C6H2, C8H2, C10H2, C12H2 and C14H2 were detected by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy SERS. Intensity capping occurs in a liquid due to filamentation, and the resulting intensity in a liquid is s 1013 W/cm2 during irradiation. This results in main process of ionization in the larger part of the laser focus as multiphoton ionization MPI. Focal volume increase in a liquid provides a larger volume where ions C+, C+2 and C2+are produced to initiate chemical reactions outside the laser focus. The current work established positively, that the longer polyyne formation does not occur by dehydrogenation of alkane molecules by only breaking the C-H bonds as was previously anticipated. It is proposed in this work that lengthening of polyyne chains occurs due to addition reaction of species of C+, C+2 and C2+ to double bonded species themselves produced as a result of the breaking down of the parent molecules in the laser focus. The carbon addition reactions occur outside the laser focus due to the close proximity of molecules in the liquid phase.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Polyyne molecules were produced as a result of the femtosecond laser irradiation of liquid acetone (CH3)2CO and alkane molecules hexane C6H14 and octane C8H18 using 800 nm, 100 fs duration pulses. These polyynes have been detected as a Raman band in irradiated liquid from 1800 to 2200 cm−1. Polyyne molecules generally detected as a Raman band in SERS experiment are C8H2, C10H2, C12H2 and C14H2. Two well established experimental techniques, time of flight mass spectrometry and surface enhanced Raman spectrometry were used to identify positively polyyne formation as a result of femtosecond laser irradiation of acetone and alkane liquids. Small polyynes C2H2, C4H2, and C6H2 were positively detected in the time of flight mass spectrometer TFMS, while longer polyynes from C6H2, C8H2, C10H2, C12H2 and C14H2 were detected by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy SERS. Intensity capping occurs in a liquid due to filamentation, and the resulting intensity in a liquid is s 1013 W/cm2 during irradiation. This results in main process of ionization in the larger part of the laser focus as multiphoton ionization MPI. Focal volume increase in a liquid provides a larger volume where ions C+, C+2 and C2+are produced to initiate chemical reactions outside the laser focus. The current work established positively, that the longer polyyne formation does not occur by dehydrogenation of alkane molecules by only breaking the C-H bonds as was previously anticipated. It is proposed in this work that lengthening of polyyne chains occurs due to addition reaction of species of C+, C+2 and C2+ to double bonded species themselves produced as a result of the breaking down of the parent molecules in the laser focus. The carbon addition reactions occur outside the laser focus due to the close proximity of molecules in the liquid phase.

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