Kinetics of ethylcyclohexane pyrolysis and oxidation: An experimental and detailed kinetic modeling study

by Z. Wang, L. Zhao, Y. Wang, H. Bian, L. Zhang, F. Zhang, Y. Li, S.M. Sarathy, F. Qi
Year:2015

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Kinetics of ethylcyclohexane pyrolysis and oxidation: An experimental and detailed kinetic modeling study
Z. Wang, L. Zhao, Y. Wang, H. Bian, L. Zhang, F. Zhang, Y. Li, S.M. Sarathy, F. Qi
Combustion and Flame Accepted March, (2015)

Abstract

​​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 760 Torr) 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 30 Torr 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.

Keywords

Ethylcyclohexane Pyrolysis Oxidation Premixed Flames Synchrotron VUV Photoionization Mass Spectrometry Kinetic Modeling
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