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Experimental and modeling study on effects of N(2) and CO(2) on ignition characteristics of methane/air mixture

The ignition delay times of methane/air mixture diluted by N(2) and CO(2) were experimentally measured in a chemical shock tube. The experiments were performed over the temperature range of 1300–2100 K, pressure range of 0.1–1.0 MPa, equivalence ratio range of 0.5–2.0 and for the dilution coefficien...

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Autores principales: Zeng, Wen, Ma, Hongan, Liang, Yuntao, Hu, Erjiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4348458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2014.01.003
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Sumario:The ignition delay times of methane/air mixture diluted by N(2) and CO(2) were experimentally measured in a chemical shock tube. The experiments were performed over the temperature range of 1300–2100 K, pressure range of 0.1–1.0 MPa, equivalence ratio range of 0.5–2.0 and for the dilution coefficients of 0%, 20% and 50%. The results suggest that a linear relationship exists between the reciprocal of temperature and the logarithm of the ignition delay times. Meanwhile, with ignition temperature and pressure increasing, the measured ignition delay times of methane/air mixture are decreasing. Furthermore, an increase in the dilution coefficient of N(2) or CO(2) results in increasing ignition delays and the inhibition effect of CO(2) on methane/air mixture ignition is stronger than that of N(2). Simulated ignition delays of methane/air mixture using three kinetic models were compared to the experimental data. Results show that GRI_3.0 mechanism gives the best prediction on ignition delays of methane/air mixture and it was selected to identify the effects of N(2) and CO(2) on ignition delays and the key elementary reactions in the ignition chemistry of methane/air mixture. Comparisons of the calculated ignition delays with the experimental data of methane/air mixture diluted by N(2) and CO(2) show excellent agreement, and sensitivity coefficients of chain branching reactions which promote mixture ignition decrease with increasing dilution coefficient of N(2) or CO(2).