Autoignition Chemistry Studies of n-Butane in a Variable Pressure Flow Reactor

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.…”

An experimental and modeling study of ethanol oxidation kinetics in an atmospheric pressure flow reactor

“…Additional experiments to measure the CH20 profile and to extend the pressure range of study are planned in a new variable-pressure flow reactor facility ( [65,66]). …”

A Rapid Compression Machine for Chemical Kinetics Studies at Elevated Pressures and Temperatures

“…While typically the achievable pressure of flow reactors is relatively low, the variable-pressure flow reactor at Princeton University can operate in the pressure range of 0.2 to 20 bar and temperature up to 1200 K (Kim et al, 1994;Vermeersch et al, 1991). Although shock tubes are ideal for generating high pressure and elevated temperature environment without complicated fluid dynamics, the uniform conditions persist only for less than 10 ms.…”