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http://dx.doi.org/10.15231/jksc.2016.21.3.016

Chemical Mechanism Reduction and Validation of Methyl Butanoate by Automatic Reduction Procedure  

Lee, Youngjae (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Huh, Kang Y. (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion / v.21, no.3, 2016 , pp. 16-23 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, skeletal mechanisms are produced by directed relation graph with specified threshold value and sensitivity analysis based on species database from the directed relation graph. Skeletal mechanism is optimized through the elimination of unimportant reaction steps by computational singular perturbation importance index. Reduction is performed for the detailed mechanism of methyl butanoate consisting of 264 species and 1219 elementary reactions. Validation shows acceptable agreement for auto-ignition delays in wide parametric ranges of pressure, temperature and equivalence ratio. Methyl butanoate has been proposed as a simple biodiesel surrogate although the alkyl chain consists of four carbon atoms. The resulting surrogate mechanism for n-heptane and MB consists of 76 species and 226 reaction steps including those for NOx.
Keywords
Soybean biodiesel; Methyl butanoate; Skeletal mechanism generation; Ignition delay;
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