Ammonia thermal decomposition on quartz and stainless steel walls |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Padur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India;1. Industrial Technology Research Center, Changwon National University, 20 Changwondaehak-ro, Changwon, Gyeongnam, 51140, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Smart Environmental Energy Engineering, Changwon National University, 20 Changwondaehak-ro, Changwon, Gyeongnam, 51140, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Environment & Energy Engineering, Changwon National University, 20 Changwondaehak-ro, Changwon, Gyeongnam, 51140, Republic of Korea;1. Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China;2. Shanxi Research Institute for Clean Energy, Tsinghua University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, 030032, China |
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Abstract: | Ammonia has been proposed as a promising solution for hydrogen carriers as well as clean fuels. However, the reaction kinetics is still not robust in many engineering applications, where the deviation is mainly caused by the surface reactions of ammonia on the wall. To examine the ammonia surface reaction on engineering materials, in the present study, the thermal decomposition of ammonia is systematically investigated in uniformly heated quartz/SUS304 tubular flow reactors with the prescribed heating length. A decrease in the inner diameter of the quartz tubular reactor leads to an increase in the ammonia thermal decomposition rate, showing that the thermal decomposition reaction occurs even on quartz surfaces, which is usually believed to be inert. The thermal decomposition on the SUS304 reactor surface starts from as low as 700 K, indicating it is much more reactive than the quartz surface. One-step surface reaction models of ammonia for quartz/SUS304 surfaces are proposed, with which the reaction rates are estimated based on the experimental data. The inner surface of the SUS304 tubular reactor after the thermal decomposition experiments is examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The formation of iron nitride on SUS304, which in turn facilitates ammonia thermal decomposition, reveals the positive feedback between ammonia decomposition and nitriding. Moreover, the present one-step surface reaction on stainless steel has been validated by measuring ammonia distributions in the preheat zone of NH3/O2/N2 premixed flame impinging on a stainless steel plate through a two-photon absorption laser-induced fluorescence (TALIF) technique. |
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Keywords: | Ammonia Thermal decomposition Surface reaction kinetics Quartz Stainless steel X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) |
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