The evaluation and
reduction of kinetic models for the cofiring
of NH
3
and CH
4
can help to guide the application
of NH
3
and CH
4
in industrial equipment. In this
work, eight detailed kinetic models on the cofiring of NH
3
and CH
4
and 15 detailed kinetic models on the NH
3
combustion are collected and evaluated based on error function
and experiment measurement, and the detailed mechanism of 169 species
and 1268 elementary reactions with the best overall performance was
determined. By using two mechanism reduction methods of directed relation
graph with error propagation (DRGEP) and DRGEP with sensitivity analysis
(DRGEPSA), the skeletal mechanism of 45 species and 344 elementary
reactions is achieved within the temperatures of 1000–2000
K, pressures of 1–60 atm, and equivalence ratios of 0.5–2.0.
The skeletal mechanism is comprehensively validated and achieves good
consistency with the detailed mechanism in predicting the laminar
burning velocity, species concentration, and ignition delay time.
The maximum relative error between the skeletal mechanism and the
detailed mechanism is less than 13%.