TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethylenediamine Catalyzes Nitromethane Shock-to-Detonation in Two Distinct Ways
AU - Nissen, Erin J.
AU - Bhowmick, Mithun
AU - Dlott, Dana D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/7/29
Y1 - 2021/7/29
N2 - Adding amines to liquid nitromethane (NM) is known to lower the threshold for the shock-to-detonation transition because amines catalyze proton transfer reactions that are the initial steps in the energy release process. We studied NM with 1 wt % ethylenediamine (NM/EDA) with 4 ns input shocks using time and space resolved diagnostics: photon Doppler velocimetry (PDV), optical pyrometry, and nanosecond video imaging. The 4 ns shocks are fast enough to time-resolve the reaction kinetics and the shock-to-detonation transition. We find that it is possible to shock ignite the NM/EDA without producing a detonation, so there is more to amine sensitization of the shock-to-detonation process than simply lowering the barrier to initial reactions. We find that although 1 wt % EDA has little effect on the ambient properties of NM, it dramatically alters the Hugoniot. The shock speed in NM/EDA is reduced, indicating that shocked NM/EDA is significantly more compressible than NM. Higher compressibility is associated with greater adiabatic heating, so EDA both lowers the barrier to proton transfer reactions and increases shock energy absorption. To explain the enhanced compressibility, we propose that shocking NM/EDA produces a reactive flow that has a much higher ionic strength than in NM. The sudden transformation from a molecular liquid to an ionic liquid with stronger intermolecular interactions is responsible for enhanced compressibility and shock heating.
AB - Adding amines to liquid nitromethane (NM) is known to lower the threshold for the shock-to-detonation transition because amines catalyze proton transfer reactions that are the initial steps in the energy release process. We studied NM with 1 wt % ethylenediamine (NM/EDA) with 4 ns input shocks using time and space resolved diagnostics: photon Doppler velocimetry (PDV), optical pyrometry, and nanosecond video imaging. The 4 ns shocks are fast enough to time-resolve the reaction kinetics and the shock-to-detonation transition. We find that it is possible to shock ignite the NM/EDA without producing a detonation, so there is more to amine sensitization of the shock-to-detonation process than simply lowering the barrier to initial reactions. We find that although 1 wt % EDA has little effect on the ambient properties of NM, it dramatically alters the Hugoniot. The shock speed in NM/EDA is reduced, indicating that shocked NM/EDA is significantly more compressible than NM. Higher compressibility is associated with greater adiabatic heating, so EDA both lowers the barrier to proton transfer reactions and increases shock energy absorption. To explain the enhanced compressibility, we propose that shocking NM/EDA produces a reactive flow that has a much higher ionic strength than in NM. The sudden transformation from a molecular liquid to an ionic liquid with stronger intermolecular interactions is responsible for enhanced compressibility and shock heating.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04427
DO - 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04427
M3 - Article
C2 - 34270252
AN - SCOPUS:85111514855
SN - 1520-6106
VL - 125
SP - 8185
EP - 8192
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
IS - 29
ER -