Module 4: Chemistry of combustion
  Lecture 19: Law of Mass Action
 

The form of equation in previous section is Arrhenius law

Limitations of Arrhenius law:

  • It cannot simulate combustion process over wide range of temperature.
  • Rate law matches experimental data at high temperature, but not so at low temperature.

Variation of RR with temperature:

(Figure 19.3)
  • An increase in temperature by 10% for same activation energy can cause RR to be enhanced by 250 %
 
(Figure 19.4)