Kinetics of ethylcyclohexane pyrolysis and oxidation: An experimental and detailed kinetic modeling study
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Wang, Zhandong
Zhao, Long
Wang, Yu

Bian, Huiting
Zhang, Lidong
Zhang, Feng
Li, Yuyang
Sarathy, Mani

Qi, Fei
KAUST Department
Chemical Engineering ProgramClean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2015-07Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/564193
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Ethylcyclohexane (ECH) is a model compound for cycloalkanes with long alkyl side-chains. A preliminary investigation on ECH (Wang et al., Proc. Combust. Inst., 35, 2015, 367-375) revealed that an accurate ECH kinetic model with detailed fuel consumption mechanism and aromatic growth pathways, as well as additional ECH pyrolysis and oxidation data with detailed species concentration covering a wide pressure and temperature range are required to understand the ECH combustion kinetics. In this work, the flow reactor pyrolysis of ECH at various pressures (30, 150 and 760Torr) was studied using synchrotron vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization mass spectrometry (PIMS) and gas chromatography (GC). The mole fraction profiles of numerous major and minor species were evaluated, and good agreement was observed between the PIMS and GC data sets. Furthermore, a fuel-rich burner-stabilized laminar premixed ECH/O2/Ar flame at 30Torr was studied using synchrotron VUV PIMS. A detailed kinetic model for ECH high temperature pyrolysis and oxidation was developed and validated against the pyrolysis and flame data performed in this work. Further validation of the kinetic model is presented against literature data including species concentrations in jet-stirred reactor oxidation, ignition delay times in a shock tube, and laminar flame speeds at various pressures and equivalence ratios. The model well predicts the consumption of ECH, the growth of aromatics, and the global combustion properties. Reaction flux and sensitivity analysis were utilized to elucidate chemical kinetic features of ECH combustion under various reaction conditions. © 2015 The Combustion Institute.Citation
Wang, Z., Zhao, L., Wang, Y., Bian, H., Zhang, L., Zhang, F., … Qi, F. (2015). Kinetics of ethylcyclohexane pyrolysis and oxidation: An experimental and detailed kinetic modeling study. Combustion and Flame, 162(7), 2873–2892. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.03.017Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Combustion and Flameae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.03.017