TY - JOUR
T1 - A counterflow diffusion flame study of branched octane isomers
AU - Sarathy, S. Mani
AU - Niemann, Ulrich
AU - Yeung, Coleman
AU - Gehmlich, Ryan
AU - Westbrook, Charles K.
AU - Plomer, Max
AU - Luo, Zhaoyu
AU - Mehl, Marco
AU - Pitz, William J.
AU - Seshadri, Kalyanasundaram
AU - Thomson, Murray J.
AU - Lu, Tianfeng
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PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Conventional petroleum, Fischer-Tropsch (FT), and other alternative hydrocarbon fuels typically contain a high concentration of lightly methylated iso-alkanes. However, until recently little work has been done on this important class of hydrocarbon components. In order to better understand the combustion characteristics of real fuels, this study presents new experimental data for 3-methylheptane and 2,5-dimethylhexane in counterflow diffusion flames. This new dataset includes flame ignition, extinction, and speciation profiles. The high temperature oxidation of these fuels has been modeled using an extended transport database and a high temperature skeletal chemical kinetic model. The skeletal model is generated from a detailed model reduced using the directed relation graph with expert knowledge (DRG-X) methodology. The proposed skeletal model contains sufficient chemical fidelity to accurately predict the experimental speciation data in flames. The predictions are compared to elucidate the effects of number and location of the methyl substitutions. The location is found to have little effect on ignition and extinction in these counterflow diffusion flames. However, increasing the number of methyl substitutions was found to inhibit ignition and promote extinction. Chemical kinetic modelling simulations were used to correlate a fuel's extinction propensity with its ability to populate the H radical concentration. Species composition measurements indicate that the location and number of methyl substitutions was found to particularly affect the amount and type of alkenes observed. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute. © 2012 The Combustion Institute.
AB - Conventional petroleum, Fischer-Tropsch (FT), and other alternative hydrocarbon fuels typically contain a high concentration of lightly methylated iso-alkanes. However, until recently little work has been done on this important class of hydrocarbon components. In order to better understand the combustion characteristics of real fuels, this study presents new experimental data for 3-methylheptane and 2,5-dimethylhexane in counterflow diffusion flames. This new dataset includes flame ignition, extinction, and speciation profiles. The high temperature oxidation of these fuels has been modeled using an extended transport database and a high temperature skeletal chemical kinetic model. The skeletal model is generated from a detailed model reduced using the directed relation graph with expert knowledge (DRG-X) methodology. The proposed skeletal model contains sufficient chemical fidelity to accurately predict the experimental speciation data in flames. The predictions are compared to elucidate the effects of number and location of the methyl substitutions. The location is found to have little effect on ignition and extinction in these counterflow diffusion flames. However, increasing the number of methyl substitutions was found to inhibit ignition and promote extinction. Chemical kinetic modelling simulations were used to correlate a fuel's extinction propensity with its ability to populate the H radical concentration. Species composition measurements indicate that the location and number of methyl substitutions was found to particularly affect the amount and type of alkenes observed. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute. © 2012 The Combustion Institute.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proci.2012.05.106
DO - 10.1016/j.proci.2012.05.106
M3 - Article
SN - 1540-7489
VL - 34
SP - 1015
EP - 1023
JO - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
JF - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
IS - 1
ER -