2009/04/27 by Isabelle Ziegler‐Devin, René Fournet, Ziegler-Devin, Isabelle +3
Engineering · Materials Science · #Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Heat transfer and supercritical fluids #Polymer Foaming and Composites
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.4137
openalex publication_date 2009/04/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
High temeperature (900-1000° C) low pressure (<< 1 atm) pyrolysis of propane yields a pyrocarbon deposit, but also mainly hydrogen and hydrocarbons from methane to polyaromatics. 30 reaction products were exeperimentally quantified at different operating conditions. A detailed kinetic pyrolysis model (600 reactions) has been developed and validated based on the totality of experiments. This model includes a homogeneous model (describing the gas phase pyrolysis of propane) coupled with a heterogeneous model describing the pyrocarbon deposit.