Recommendations for the Production of Silicon Carbide-derived Carbon Based on Intrinsic Kinetic Data

Recommendations for mode of operation and critical dimensions regarding inner mass transfer limitation were deduced for the technical extraction of silicon from silicon carbide to produce nanoporous carbon (carbide-derived carbon, CDC). The recommendations are based on intrinsic kinetics derived from experimental data and reaction engineering simulation of the transient process (shrinking-core like mechanism). As the reaction takes place at 1000 degrees C under chlorine atmosphere, kinetic data as well as diffusion coefficients are extracted from integral conversion data in a lab scale reactor. The reaction rate dependency for varying chlorine concentrations is represented best by a Hougen-Watson type rate approach with dissociative adsorption of a reactant. From the experimental data the effective diffusion coefficient of chlorine in the resulting nanoporous carbon could also be derived to 4 center dot 108?m2s1 at 1000 degrees C.