Journal
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
Volume 162, Issue 4, Pages 1113-1125Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.10.003
Keywords
Dimethyl ether; Low-temperature oxidation; Molecular-beam mass spectrometry; Kinetic modeling; Chain branching
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 686]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [U1332208, 51127002]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- China Scholarship Council
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Recent experiments on low-temperature oxidation of dimethyl ether (DME) at atmospheric pressure reveal much lower fuel conversion than the predictions of all published models. Consistent with previous measurements, the present work on DME oxidation in a laminar flow reactor between 400 and 1160 K at atmospheric pressure also confirmed this behavior. To reduce the gap between model predictions and experimental results, both regarding key oxygenated species and fuel conversion, an extended and updated kinetic model of DME oxidation was developed from the widely used model of Z. Zhao, M. Chaos, A. Kazakov, F.L. Dryer, Int. J. Chem. Kinet. 40 (2008) 1-18. The development of the model focused on the reaction sequences that affect the low-temperature oxidation reactivity. In particular, the reactivity of DME oxidation in the low-temperature regime and at atmospheric pressure can now be predicted. This is possible upon the inclusion of an additional, chemically-activated pathway of CH3OCH2 reaction with O-2, as well as of the new decomposition chemistry of OCH2OCHO radical, investigated theoretically in this work. The present model was examined against species concentrations in DME oxidation from low to intermediate temperatures and shock tube ignition delay times. It shows satisfactory performance in reproducing the respective literature data. (C) 2014 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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