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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 123, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2141511
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A kinetic model to predict nucleation rates in the sulfuric acid-water system is presented. It allows calculating steady-state nucleation rates and the corresponding time lag, using a direct solution of a system of kinetic equations that describe the populations of sub- and near-critical clusters. This kinetic model takes into account cluster-cluster collisions and decay of clusters into smaller clusters. The model results are compared with some predictions obtained with the classical nucleation theory (CNT) and also with available measurement data obtained in smog chambers or flow tubes. It is shown that in the case of slow nucleation processes, the kinetic model and the CNT as used by Shugard [J. Chem. Phys. 75, 5298 (1974)] give the same results. However, in the case of intensive nucleation, a large part of the nucleation flux is due to cluster-cluster collisions and the CNT underestimates the nucleation rates. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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