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Jürgen Troe Special Issue

New reactions of diazene and related species for modelling combustion of amine fuels

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Article: e1979674 | Received 29 Apr 2021, Accepted 03 Sep 2021, Published online: 24 Sep 2021
 

Abstract

Potential energy surfaces for reactions involving N2H2 isomers of diazene (diimide) have been explored using density functional theory, with energies based on coupled-cluster theory. A focus is on processes that create or consume these species, and isomerisation between the E (trans) and Z (cis) forms of HNNH. These include isomerisation and dissociation pathways for HNNH, addition of H atoms to form N2H3, abstraction by H atoms yielding short-lived NNH, and abstraction reactions of H with N2H3. Transition state and capture theories are applied for high-pressure-limiting behaviour, while low-pressure and falloff regions are characterised via the methods of Troe and coworkers. Rate constants and thermochemistry are provided to improve models of diamine chemistry, relevant to the combustion of NH3 especially at high concentrations, high pressures or under reducing conditions. Results indicate that amine radical recombination mainly yields the E HNNH isomer, while H-abstraction from N2H3 results in E HNNH and H2NN. However, at elevated temperature E Z isomerisation becomes competitive, and Z HNNH, being more reactive, acts to enhance the diazene consumption rate.

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Acknowledgments

PM thanks the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences/Gas Phase Chemical Physics under Contract No. DESC0020952. Computational facilities were provided by the National Science Foundation, Grant CHE-1531468. PG would like to acknowledge funding from Innovation Fund Denmark for the AEngine Grand Solutions project.

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Funding

This work was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) [Grant Number CHE-1531468] Innovation Fund Denmark [Grand Solutions AEngine] U.S. Department of Energy [Grant Number DESC0020952].

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