Experiments and modeling of the autoignition of methylcyclohexane at high pressure
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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionClean Combustion Research Center
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2014-08Permanent link to this record
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New experimental data are collected for methyl-cyclohexane (MCH) autoignition in a heated rapid compression machine (RCM). Three mixtures of MCH/O2/N2/Ar at equivalence ratios of φ=0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 are studied and the ignition delays are measured at compressed pressure of 50bar and for compressed temperatures in the range of 690-900K. By keeping the fuel mole fraction in the mixture constant, the order of reactivity, in terms of inverse ignition delay, is measured to be φ=0.5>φ=1.0>φ=1.5, demonstrating the dependence of the ignition delay on oxygen concentration. In addition, an existing model for the combustion of MCH is updated with new reaction rates and pathways, including substantial updates to the low-temperature chemistry. The new model shows good agreement with the overall ignition delays measured in this study, as well as the ignition delays measured previously in the literature using RCMs and shock tubes. This model therefore represents a strong improvement compared to the previous version, which uniformly over-predicted the ignition delays. Chemical kinetic analyses of the updated mechanism are also conducted to help understand the fuel decomposition pathways and the reactions controlling the ignition. Combined, these results and analyses suggest that further investigation of several of the low-temperature fuel decomposition pathways is required. © 2014 The Combustion Institute.Citation
Weber, B. W., Pitz, W. J., Mehl, M., Silke, E. J., Davis, A. C., & Sung, C.-J. (2014). Experiments and modeling of the autoignition of methylcyclohexane at high pressure. Combustion and Flame, 161(8), 1972–1983. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.01.018Sponsors
The work at the University of Connecticut was supported as part of the Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Award Number DE-SC0001198. The work at LLNL was supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Vehicle Technologies, program manager Gurpreet Singh and performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Alexander Davis acknowledges funding from KAUST CCRC with technical monitoring of Dr. Mani Sarathy.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Combustion and FlamearXiv
1706.02996ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.01.018