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Mechanisms of Ammonia-Synthesis Reaction Revisited with the Aid of a Novel Graph-Theoretic Method for Determining Candidate Mechanisms in Deriving the Rate Law of a Catalytic Reaction

Fan, L. T. and Bertók, Botond and Friedler, Ferenc and Shafie, S. (2001) Mechanisms of Ammonia-Synthesis Reaction Revisited with the Aid of a Novel Graph-Theoretic Method for Determining Candidate Mechanisms in Deriving the Rate Law of a Catalytic Reaction. HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRY AND CHEMISTRY, 29 (1). pp. 71-80. ISSN 0133-0276

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Abstract

Stoichiometrically exact, candidate pathways, i.e., mechanisms, for deriving the rate law of the catalytic synthesis of ammonia have been determined through the synthesis of networks of known elementary reactions constituting such pathways. This has been undertaken to reassess the validity of available mechanisms and to explore the possible existence of additional ones for the catalytic synthesis of ammonia. Synthesizing the networks of elementary reactions is exceedingly convoluted due to the combinatorial complexity arising from the fact the number of elementary reactions involved usually far exceeds that of available elementary balances, which is only 2 for the ammonia synthesis. Such a complexity can be circumvented by the rigorous and highly efficient, graph-theoretic method adopted in the present contribution. This method follows the general framework of a mathematically exact, combinatorial method eslablished for process-network synthesis. It is based on a unique graph-representation in terms of process graphs (P-graphs), a set of axioms, and a group of combinatorial algorithms. The method renders it possible to generate with dispatch all feasible independent reaction networks, i.e., pathways, only once. The pathways violating any first principle of either stoichiometry or thermodynamics are eliminated. Moreover, the method is capable of directly generating rapidly the acyclic combinations of independent pathways.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Ammonia synthesis, Reaction pathways, Mechanism, Networks, Identification, Synthesis, Algorithms
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2024 13:54
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2024 13:54
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/191832

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