• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 1998

The hepatfluoropropane(HFC-227ea) synthesis by fluorinatino of hepafluoroproylene(HFP) over activated carbon has been studied. The reaction temperature was varied from 5$0^{\circ}C$ to 40$0^{\circ}C$ at a constant feed mole ration and a residence time. The optimized reaction temperature was found to be about 20$0^{\circ}C$ at 2.5HF/HFP mole ratio and 238 sec. residence time. From these reaction conditions, the yield of HFC-227ea was obtained above 99% and the deactivation of activated carbon was not appeared. Accordingly, the activated carbon showed good performance to obtain heptafluoropropane by fluorinatin of hexafluoropropylene.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.100-103
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• 2008

Autoignition suppression of hydrogen/air premixed mixtures by $CF_3CHFCF_3$(HFP) was investigated computationally. Numerical simulation was performed in isobaric and homogeneous system to evaluate the induction times. The detailed chemistry of 93 species and 817 reaction mechanism was introduced for hydrogen/air/HFP mixtures. The results shows the similar concentrations for the major reactants such as hydrogen and oxygen during autoignition while water vapor produced at the ignition temperature was decomposed later, which leaded to the shoulder on the concentration of H, OH and O radical with time. The fluorine included from HFP was converted mainly to stable HF and the carbon was formed to various species, CF2, CF2O, CO etc. More details of chemical effects of HFP addition will be investigate with sensitivity analysis in the near future.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.234-238
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• 2008

Autoignition suppression of hydrogen/air premixed mixtures by $CF_3CHFCF_3(HFP)$ was investigated computationally. Numerical simulation was performed in isobaric and homogeneous system to evaluate the induction times. The detailed chemistry of 93 species and 817 reaction mechanism was introduced for hydrogen/air/HFP mixtures. The result of pure hydrogen/air mixture show that the resulting value of induction time depends relatively weakly on the definition used event though there are various criteria for defining the induction time such as the inflection of temperature, OH and $O_2$ concentrations generally. Also, the autoignition temperature of $H_2/air$ mixture is estimated to about 850K, which is corresponds to the literature value. In the case of HFP addition in $H_2/air$ mixture, the results shows that there are several inflection points of radical concentration, and hence it might be to use the temperature for defining ignition delay. When HFP is added to stoichiometric $H_2/air$ mixture, the effect of ignition delay is outstanding above 10% HFP concentration. As HFP concentration increases, both dilution and chemical effects contribute to delay the ignition. Also, the chemical effect on the ignition delay is more considerable with the higher HFP concentration.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.17-21
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• 2010

The chemistry and ignition delay of hydrogen/air/HFP premixed mixtures was investigated numerically with unsteady perfectly stirred reactor(PSR). The detailed chemistry of 93 species and 817 reaction mechanism was introduced for hydrogen/air/HFP mixtures. The results shows the temporal concentration variations of major or reactants such as hydrogen and oxygen during autoignition were similar to the spatial distribution of premixed flame while water vapor produced at the ignition temperature was decomposed later, which can be clarified with the relate species production rates that the the re-growth (or shoulder) of OH concentration is a result of F radicals attacking $H_20$ forming OH and HF. For the stoichiometric $H_2$/air mixture inhibited by 20% HFP, HFP thermal decomposition reaction prevails over the radical attack such as H at initial stage. Even though relatively large HFP addition contributes to delay the ignition, chemical effect on the ignition delay is not effective because of late thermal decomposition of HFP. The most small ignition delay was observed at a slightly fuel lean condition ($\phi$ = 0.9), and temperature dependency of ignition delay was clearly shown near 900 K.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.243-258
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• 2007