Henri James

An attempt to correlate the kinetic and energetic data applying to excited species occurring in carbon monoxide combustion

Abstract The present state of research on the carbon monoxide-oxygen reaction may be characterized by the presence of uncorrelated interpretations concerning the energetic and kinetic aspects of its mechanism. It is the purpose of this work to establish the necessary relation between the characteristic emissive properties of the reaction [1, 2, 3] and the kinetics of the reaction evolution [4, 5, 6], with the underlying premise that both aspects are linked by the same energetic species. Thus, this paper may be viewed as an attempt to unify the different concepts accepted about energetic and kinetic aspects of the carbon monoxide-oxygen reaction.