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Ž)99%. was purchased from Fisher Scientific.
rected for axial diffusion and for loss of the OBrO
radicals on the injector according to Eq. ŽI. w28x:
NaClO Ž;80%. was obtained from Fluke Chemika.
2
O was produced by an ozone gas generator ŽPacific
X
X
X
3
2
k
sk
Ž
1qk DrÕ
.
qkp
I
Ž .
corr
Ozone Technology Model L21. and stored on silica
X
gel at 195 K. During the experiments, O was main-
where k is the observed decay rate, D is the diffu-
sion coefficient of OBrO, Õ is the mean bulk flow
velocity, and kp is the first-order loss of OBrO on
the surface of the sliding injector. The diffusion
coefficient D for OBrO in the helium was estimated
based on the empirical equation developed by Fuller
3
tained at 195 K and bubbled into the reactor with a
measured flow of He Ž100;500 sccm.. A cold trap
cooled by liquid nitrogen was placed before the inlet
of the mechanical pump to avoid the contamination
of the pump by the corrosive chemicals. For experi-
2
et al. w35x which yielded approximately 0.53 atm cm
ments involving O , the ozone was catalytically
3
y1
converted into O by passing through a heated U-tube
s
at 298 K. The corrections for axial diffusion
2
containing copper fibers as catalyst before arriving at
the trap. It was found that when the U-tube tempera-
ture reached 200;2508C, )99% of the ozone was
converted and very little ozone was trapped under
liquid nitrogen temperature.
were always less than 1%. Finally the bimolecular
rate constant for reaction Ž2., k , was obtained from
2
the slope of linear least-squares fits to the plot of
X
k
versus initial NO concentration.
corr
Fig. 2 shows the experimental data for the kinetic
study on reaction Ž2., in which Fig. 2a shows the
typical OBrO decay as a function of NO concentra-
tion. Our data indicate that the OBrO decay increase
with both NO initial concentration and reaction time.
The decay appeared to be linear in the time domain
investigated, indicating a well pseudo-first-order be-
havior under our experimental conditions.
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. Results and discussion
3
.1. OBrO reaction with NO
Fig. 2b shows the corrected pseudo-first-order
X
When adding NO to the reactor containing OBrO,
decay rate, k , as a function of NO concentration.
corr
a signal at mres46 was found to increase, suggest-
With an initial OBrO concentration in the range of
1
1
y3
Ž1.0;8.0.=10 molecule cm , when NO con-
ing that NO was formed as a product for reaction
2
1
2
Ž2.. This reaction pathway is similar to that of OClO
centration varied from Ž1.61;21.7.=10 molecule
y3
X
y1
qNO, in which the NO was observed as major
cm , k
varied from 6 to 44 s . The slope of
2
corr
product w34x.
the linear least-squares fit through all data points
Kinetic measurement for reaction Ž2. was carried
yielded a rate coefficient of k sŽ1.77"0.32.=
2
y12
3
y1 y1
out by monitoring the decay of OBrO as a function
of reaction time in the presence of NO. The rate
constant for this reaction was obtained using the
well-known steady state flow tube method
w17,28,31,32x. Following this method, the experi-
10
cm molecule
s
for the reaction of OBrO
with NO, where the quoted uncertainty corresponded
to 2s and reflected the scatter of the data and the
uncertainties of experimental parameters such as
temperature, flow rate, pressure, and initial NO con-
centration. Comparing to the reaction of OClO with
NO at 298 K w34x:
ments were carried out under the pseudo-first-order
conditions, in which the concentration of NO was in
much excess over that of OBrO. The pseudo-first-
OClOqNO™NO qClO
k5 s3.4=10
2
X
order decay rate, k , was determined from the slope
y13
cm molecule sy1
3
y1
Ž .
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of plots of the logarithm of OBrO concentration
against the contact time of the reactants. In these
experiments OBrO was introduced into the flow tube
as a minor reactant through a fixed sidearm, while
the excess reagent, NO, was added through the slid-
ing injector that was concentric with the reactor tube.
The observed first order decay rate was then cor-
Our result shows that the OBrO is five times more
reactive toward NO than the OClO.
The non-trapped OBrO Žor vibrationally excited
OBrO, defined in Ref. w17x. was found to be more
reactive to NO than the trapped OBrO Žor ground
state OBrO, defined in Ref. w17x.. In a separate