A unified approach to the reduced kinetic modeling of alkane combustion

Shock tube study of the ignition of lean n-heptane/air mixtures at intermediate temperatures and high pressures

“…An overview of the experimental works of heptane oxidation is given in Table 1. Simulations [29] based on a mechanism for n-heptane oxidation given by Curran et al [29] show a good agreement with most of the experiments mentioned above [1,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Shorter mechanisms containing simplified chemistry are given by Held et al [30] and by Lindsted and Maurice [31].…”

“…The oxidation and auto-ignition of heptane was studied under various conditions in a flow reactor [14,15], in stirred reactors [16][17][18][19][20], in shock tubes [1][2][3][21][22][23][24], and rapid compression machines [25][26][27][28]. The temperature range of the studies was between T = 550 and 2000 K, at pressures between p = 1 and 40 bar, and equivalence ratios between U = 0.3 and 4.0.…”

Cetane number vs. structure in paraffin hydrocarbons

“…The reduced kinetic model comprised 118 reactions, as laid out in ref. 2, with a few minor corrections ;3 of these, 33 " core Ï reactions described the chemistry of simple species containing fewer than four carbon atoms, and the remaining 85 reactions were generic reactions involving the oxidation and break-up of the larger hydrocarbon and oxygenated hydrocarbon species. Essentially, the fuel molecule was characterised only by the total number of carbon atoms and the respective numbers of primary, secondary and tertiary CwH bonds.…”

Experimental and Kinetic Modeling Studies of 3-Methylfuran Pyrolysis at Low and Atmospheric Pressures

“…The combustion studies of furan and its derivatives had made considerable progresses in the past decade. Researches mainly focused on furan, MF2, and DMF, including laminar flames, − pyrolysis, − and oxidation , as well as laminar burning velocity, ,− ignition delay time, ,− and so forth. Wu et al, Liu et al, and Togbé et al studied the combustion chemistry and flame structure of the low-pressure premixed laminar DMF/oxygen/argon flames.…”