Computational studies of combustion processes and oxygenated species
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Abstract
Within this dissertation, we report on explorations of reactive oxygen species with implications for combustion and atmospheric chemistry.Various computational approaches, including density functional theory (DFT) and master equation methods, were used to complete these projects.The majority of this thesis involves the oxidation pathways of the alkylated heterocycles that provide a model framework for understanding coal combustion.The enthalpies and energies of reaction for hydrogen-atom loss and alkyl-group fragmentations at various temperatures were calculated via density functional theory (B3LYP/6-311+G**//B3LYP/6-31G*); these results were calibrated against CBS-QB3 calculations.It was suggested that both hydrogen-atom loss and alkyl-group loss reactions will contribute as initiation steps for the high-temperature combustion reactions of these rings.Longer alkyl chains will increase reactivity, and the azabenzene units are more likely to react than the five-membered heterocyclic rings.The initial steps of radical formation are expected to become more favorable at high temperatures.The oxidation steps of these radicals were shown to be exothermic and exoergic, as expected.DFT studies (B3LYP/6-311+G**//B3LYP/6-31G*) showed that these resultant peroxy radicals were more likely to undergo intramolecular reactions to form bicyclic structures.Furthermore, several pathways seemed feasible and must be and Karen Hayes; my siblings, Rob and Katie; and my grandparents, Tom and Jeanne Wright.Although they are too numerous to mention by name, I also thank many uncles, aunts, cousins, and other relatives whose kind support has been a continued source of inspiration throughout my education.In particular, I mention the relatives whom have passed away during my time in graduate school: my aunt, Judy Boling; my greatgrandfather, Fred Hines; my uncle, Gary Wright;
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".