Isothermal kinetics Model for Solid-Solid Reaction through Surface Area
and Size Distribution of the particle
Abstract
Many industrial processes such as metallurgical, chemistry, ceramic and
cement industry often involve solid-solid reactions. To develop a
quantitative representation of the solid-solid reaction of powders for
the binary reactants system, the investigation of modelling which
involved particle shape, surface area, particle size distribution and
diffusion rate of reactants was carried out. In this model, the
interface of particles were divided into reaction surface and
non-reaction surface, and the particle shape was divided into the first
level shape and the second level shape. The area of reaction interface
was calculated, while the concentration distributions of reactants are
numerically expressed. The simulated kinetics curves of fractional
conversion α with time in different average particle size and in
different diffusion coefficient were shown to be useful to evaluate the
kinetics of solid-solid reactions. The simulated kinetics curves and
experimental data from references were compared and it achieved good
accuracy.