Development of a high temperature pyrolysis mechanism for cyclopentanone, a potential biofuel derived from biomass
Cyclopentanone (CPO) is a promising biofuel for spark-ignition engines due to its ring strain and high auto-ignition resistance. The Department of Energy has identified CPO as a potential biofuel candidate because of its unique chemical properties. Understanding CPO decomposition is crucial to building a high-temperature combustion model. In this study, we present a comprehensive kinetic model for high-temperature pyrolysis of CPO with verified results from high-pressure shock tube (HPST) measurements. The time histories of carbon monoxide (CO), ethylene (C2H4), and CPO absorbances over the temperature range of 1156-1416 K and 8.53-10.06 atm were measured. A corresponding kinetic model was generated using the Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) with the parameters of dominant pathways from either previous studies or quantum calculation within current work. The final model containing 821 species and 79,859 reactions exhibited a good agreement with the experimental results. In this study, the C2H4/CO ratio was used as an essential factor to validate the model and to prove that radical-involved bimolecular pathways were as significant as unimolecular decomposition of CPO. The rate of production (ROP) analysis showed that H radicals play major roles in both primary reactions and product pyrolysis. The insights from this work can be used to generate a better CPO combustion model and help evaluate CPO as a biofuel. Such understanding can also be helpful when proposing pyrolysis or combustion models for other biofuels.
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0007982
- OSTI ID:
- 1763638
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-MIT-0007982
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ACS Spring 2020 National Meeting & Expo, virtual
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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