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Title: Reduced chemical model for low and high-temperature oxidation of fuel blends relevant to internal combustion engines

Journal Article · · Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

A hybrid approach is proposed to develop reduced kinetic models for complex engine-relevant fuels. The reduced mechanism is composed of a core submechanism including C0-C4 chemistry, ethanol chemistry, and NOx chemistry and a fuel-dependent submechanism. The fuel-dependent submechanism consists of three species and ten reactions describing both the low and high-temperature fuel decomposition pathways. Calibrations for these reactions can be made for single component and multicomponent mixtures using experimental targets or results from detailed kinetic mechanisms. In the present study, the methodology is applied to the combustion of gasoline surrogates. Reduced mechanisms are calibrated for primary references fuels and multicomponent mixtures at engine-relevant pressures. The reduced mechanisms capture the low-temperature heat release and negative temperature coefficient (NTC) behavior, which are important to simulations of internal combustion engine performance. The mechanisms are very compact in size and can be easily calibrated for multicomponent mixtures without any detailed knowledge of the chemistry of the fuel components, making them well suited for CFD simulations of new fuel blends.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344; 16-ERD-003
OSTI ID:
1497308
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1703021
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-742185; 896746
Journal Information:
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 37, Issue 1; ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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