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Cai, LimingUygun, Yasar
Togbé, Casimir
Pitsch, Heinz G.
Olivier, Herbert
Dagaut, P.
Sarathy, Mani

KAUST Department
Chemical Engineering ProgramClean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2015Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/566072
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This study presents the first investigation on the combustion chemistry of n-octanol, a long chain alcohol. Ignition delay times were determined experimentally in a high-pressure shock tube, and stable species concentration profiles were obtained in a jet stirred reactor for a range of initial conditions. A detailed kinetic model was developed to describe the oxidation of n-octanol at both low and high temperatures, and the model shows good agreement with the present dataset. The fuel's combustion characteristics are compared to those of n-alkanes and to short chain alcohols to illustrate the effects of the hydroxyl moiety and the carbon chain length on important combustion properties. Finally, the results are discussed in detail. © 2014 The Combustion Institute.Citation
Cai, L., Uygun, Y., Togbé, C., Pitsch, H., Olivier, H., Dagaut, P., & Sarathy, S. M. (2015). An experimental and modeling study of n -octanol combustion. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 35(1), 419–427. doi:10.1016/j.proci.2014.05.088Sponsors
This work was performed as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass" which is funded by the Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments to promote science and research at German universities and as part of the collaborative research center (SFB) 1029 which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The work at KAUST was funded by the Clean Combustion Research Center. Co-author S.M.S. acknowledges funding from the TMFB Visiting Fellowship program. At CNRS, the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 291049-2G-CSafe.Publisher
Elsevier BVae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.proci.2014.05.088