“…The reactions of nitric oxide with carbons have been studied with a view toward their potential for reduction of NO emissions from combustion systems, and relevant literature on these reactions has been reviewed in papers dealing with the global kinetics of the gasification reaction (Suuberg et al, 1991; Teng et al, 1992). The first step of the process, involving the chemisorption of NO on the carbon surface, has been separately considered by us (Teng et al, 1990; Teng and Suuberg, 1993) and others (Zarifayanz, 1964; Zarifayanz et al, 1967;Smith et al, 1956Smith et al, , 1959Shah, 1929;Harker et al, 1966;Hall, 1971,1972;Pastor et al, 1957; Dianis and Lester, 1974;Richter, 1983;Richter et al, 1985; Cascarini de Torre and Arvia, 1968; Kaneko, 1987Kaneko, ,1988Kaneko, ,1989; Kaneko and Shindo, 1989; Kaneko et al, 1987aKaneko et al, ,b, 1988aKaneko et al, -c, 1989aKaneko et al, ,b, 1991; Matsumoto et al, 1989; Uchiyama et al, 1990;DeGroot et al, 1991). Most of these studies have concluded that if temperatures are kept low (i.e., well below ambient) mainly physisorption occurs (Smith et al, 1956;Brown and Hall, 1971).…”