Experiments and Modeling of the Autoignition of Methyl-Cyclohexane at High Pressure

2017/06/06 by Weber, Bryan W., Pitz, William J., Sung, Chih-Jen +3
#Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1706.01828

Abstract

The autoignition delays of mixtures of methyl-cyclohexane (MCH), oxygen, nitrogen, and argon have been studied in a heated rapid compression machine under the conditions P_C = 50 bar, T_C = 690 - 910K. Three different mixture compositions were studied, with equivalence ratios ranging from ϕ = 0.5 - 1.5. The trends of the ignition delay measured at 50 bar were similar to the trends measured in earlier experiments at P_C = 15.1 and 25.5 bar. The experimentally measured ignition delays were compared to a newly updated chemical kinetic model for the combustion of MCH. The model has been updated to include newly calculated reaction rates for much of the low-temperature chemistry. The agreement between the experiments and the model was substantially improved compared to a previous version of the model. Nevertheless, despite the encouraging improvements, work continues on further advances, e.g. in improving predictions of the first stage ignition delays.

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