Experimental Methods in Kinetic Studies

This book is a guide to kinetic studies of reaction mechanisms. It reviews conventional reactor types and data collection methods, and introduces a new methodology for data collection using Temperature Scanning Reactors (TSR). It provides a theoretical and practical approach to temperature scanning (TS) methodology and supports a revival of kinetic studies as a useful approach to the fundamental understanding of chemical reaction mechanisms and the consequential reaction kinetics.

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1. Reactor Types and their Characteristics
2. Collecting Data under Isothermal Operation
3. Using Kinetic Data in Reaction Studies
4. Difficulties with Mechanistic Rate Expressions
5. The Theory of Temperature Scanning Operation
6. Verification of Kinetic Dominance
7. Processing of Data
8. Fitting Rate Expressions to TSR Data
9. Interpretation of Rate Parameters
10. Statistical Evaluation of Multiparameter Fits
11. Experimental Studies Using TSR Methods
12. Using a Mechanistic Rate Expression
13. TSR Hardware Configurations
References
Index