Experimental and modeling study of the oxidation of isobutene

✍ Scribed by J. C. Bauge; F. Battin-Leclerc; F. Baronnet

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 210 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4601(1998)30:9<629::aid-kin4>3.0.co;2-u

✦ Synopsis

This article describes an experimental and modeling study of the oxidation of isobutene. The low-temperature oxidation was studied in a continuous-flow stirred-tank reactor operated at constant temperature (from 833 to

) and pressure with fuel 913 K

(1 atm), equivalence ratios from 3 to 6 and space times ranging from 1 to corresponding to 10 s isobutene conversion yields from 1 to 50%. The main carbon containing products were analyzed by gas chromatography. The ignition delays of isobutene-oxygen-argon mixtures with fuel equivalence ratios from 1 to 3 were measured behind shock waves. Reflected shock waves permitted to obtain temperatures from 1230 to and pressures from 9.5 to 1930 K 10.5 atm. A mechanism has been proposed to reproduce the profiles obtained for the reactants consumption and the products formation during the slow oxidation and to compute the ignition delays in the shock tube. Simulations were performed using CHEMKIN II. A correct agreement between the simulated values and the experimental data has been obtained in both apparatuses. The main reaction paths have been determined for both series of measurements by a sensitivity and rate of production analysis.