Journal
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
Volume 157, Issue 10, Pages 1976-1988Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.04.007
Keywords
Ignition; Shock tube; Kinetic modeling; alpha-Methylnaphthalene; n-Decane
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- US Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-07-1-0114]
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The autoignition of alpha-methylnaphthalene (AMN), the bicyclic aromatic reference compound for the cetane number (CN), and AMN/n-decane blends, potential diesel surrogate mixtures, was studied at elevated pressures for fuel/air mixtures in a heated high-pressure shock tube. Additionally, a comprehensive kinetic mechanism was developed to describe the oxidation of AMN and AMN/n-decane blends. Ignition delay times were measured in reflected shock experiments for Phi = 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 AMN/air mixtures (CN = 0) for 1032-1445 K and 8-45 bar and for Phi = 1.0 30%-molar AMN/70%-molar n-decane/air (CN = 58) and 70%-molar AMN/30%-molar n-decane/air mixtures (CN = 28) for 848-1349 K and 14-62 bar. Kinetic simulations, based on the comprehensive AMN/n-decane mechanism, are in good agreement with measured ignition times, illustrating the emerging capability of comprehensive mechanisms for describing high molecular weight transportation fuels. Sensitivity and reaction flux analysis indicate the importance of reactions involving resonance stabilized phenylbenzyl radicals, the formation of which by H-atom abstractions with OH radicals has an important inhibiting effect on ignition. (C) 2010 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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