Reaction-Rates

Methane oxidation reaction-rate diagnostics from Seinfeld & Pandis (2006) Ch. 6 §6.4, Table 6.1, pp. 219-227. Methane oxidation is the archetypal VOC oxidation mechanism in the troposphere, proceeding CH₄ → CH₃O₂ → CH₃O → HCHO → HCO → CO → CO₂. This observed-only algebraic component computes the 17 individual reaction rates R1-R17 of the complete Table 6.1 mechanism (10 bimolecular, 3 termolecular, 4 photolysis reactions) plus three diagnostic aggregates: the gross ozone production rate P_O3_gross = R15 + R3 (the two peroxy-radical + NO channels), the formaldehyde production rate P_HCHO = R6 + R8, and the methane loss rate L_CH4 = R1. Each reaction rate is the product of a 298 K rate constant and the reactant concentrations (R = k·[A]·[B] bimolecular, k·[M]·[A]·[B] termolecular, j·[A] photolysis). The fate of the methylperoxy radical CH₃O₂ — the O₃-producing NO channel R3 versus the chain-terminating HO₂ channel R4 — sets the ozone yield per CH₄ oxidized and is the central NOx-regime diagnostic of the mechanism. Purely algebraic (no time derivatives): 52 variables (15 input species and 17 rate constants encoded as parameters, 20 output diagnostics as state) and 20 equations. Migrated from GasChem.jl@8c12c048 src/methane_oxidation.jl:77 (`MethaneOxidation` @component).