Resumen: This study aims to evaluate the capability of SO2 to interact with soot and to determine the kinetics of this reaction under conditions of interest for combustion. The conditions of the soot reactivity experiments were: 1% SO2 with nitrogen to balance, around 10 mg of soot, and different reaction temperatures for each run: 1275, 1325, 1375, 1425, and 1475 K. Results demonstrate that SO2 does interact with soot. The evaluation of the soot reactivity has been based on the calculation of the time for the complete conversion of carbon through the employment of the Shrinking Core Model equations for decreasing size particle with chemical reaction control. The reactivity of soot with SO2 increased by a factor of about 3 when increasing the reaction temperature of the test from 1275 K to 1475 K. Kinetics in terms of Arrhenius parameters showed that the activation energy of the interaction of soot with SO2 was around 82 kJ/mol. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2016.1138824 Año: 2016 Publicado en: COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 188, 4-5 (2016), 482-491 ISSN: 0010-2202 Factor impacto JCR: 1.241 (2016) Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 36 / 85 = 0.424 (2016) - Q2 - T2 Categ. JCR: THERMODYNAMICS rank: 35 / 58 = 0.603 (2016) - Q3 - T2 Categ. JCR: ENERGY & FUELS rank: 63 / 92 = 0.685 (2016) - Q3 - T3 Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL rank: 82 / 135 = 0.607 (2016) - Q3 - T2 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.416 - Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Chemistry (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Fuel Technology (Q2) - Energy Engineering and Power Technology (Q2)