Chemical mechanism for high temperature combustion of engine relevant fuels with emphasis on soot precursors

Journal Article · Sun Mar 15 04:00:00 EDT 2009 · Combustion and Flame

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMBUSTFLAME.2008.12.007· OSTI ID:21147115

Blanquart, G; Pepiot-Desjardins, P; Pitsch, H ^[1]

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1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (United States)

This article presents a chemical mechanism for the high temperature combustion of a wide range of hydrocarbon fuels ranging from methane to iso-octane. The emphasis is placed on developing an accurate model for the formation of soot precursors for realistic fuel surrogates for premixed and diffusion flames. Species like acetylene (C{sub 2}H{sub 2}), propyne (C{sub 3}H{sub 4}), propene (C{sub 3}H{sub 6}), and butadiene (C{sub 4}H{sub 6}) play a major role in the formation of soot as their decomposition leads to the production of radicals involved in the formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) and the further growth of soot particles. A chemical kinetic mechanism is developed to represent the combustion of these molecules and is validated against a series of experimental data sets including laminar burning velocities and ignition delay times. To correctly predict the formation of soot precursors from the combustion of engine relevant fuels, additional species should be considered. One normal alkane (n-heptane), one ramified alkane (iso-octane), and two aromatics (benzene and toluene) were chosen as chemical species representative of the components typically found in these fuels. A sub-mechanism for the combustion of these four species has been added, and the full mechanism has been further validated. Finally, the mechanism is supplemented with a sub-mechanism for the formation of larger PAH molecules up to cyclo[cd]pyrene. Laminar premixed and counterflow diffusion flames are simulated to assess the ability of the mechanism to predict the formation of soot precursors in flames. The final mechanism contains 149 species and 1651 reactions (forward and backward reactions counted separately). The mechanism is available with thermodynamic and transport properties as supplemental material. (author)

• OSTI ID: 21147115
• Journal Information: Combustion and Flame, Journal Name: Combustion and Flame Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 156; ISSN CBFMAO; ISSN 0010-2180
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
ACETYLENE
BENZENE
BUTADIENE
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
COMBUSTION
DIFFUSION
FLAMES
FUELS
HEPTANE
IGNITION
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
Iso-octane
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
METHANE
OCTANE
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
PRECURSOR
PRESSURE RANGE KILO PA
PROPYLENE
PROPYNE
PYRENE
RADICALS
SIMULATION
SOOT
SYNTHESIS
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0400-1000 K
TEMPERATURE RANGE 1000-4000 K
TIME DELAY
TOLUENE
VELOCITY
n-Heptane