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

Journal Article · Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 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, Vol. 156, Issue 3; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved; ISSN 0010-2180
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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