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Experimental and kinetic modeling study of the shock tube ignition of a large oxygenated fuel: tri-propylene glycol mono-methyl ether

Burke, Ultan; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2015-05-13)

Tri-propylene glycol monomethyl ether (TPGME) is an important oxygenated fuel additive that can be used to reduce soot in diesel engines. However, a validated chemical kinetic model that incorporates the low- to high-temperature ...

An experimental and kinetic modeling study of n-hexane oxidation

Zhang, Kuiwen; Banyon, Colin; Togbé, Casimir; Dagaut, Philippe; Bugler, John; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2015-09-11)

Ignition delay times for n-hexane oxidation have been measured in a rapid compression machine (RCM) at stoichiometric conditions and at 15 bar. Due to the high reactivity of n-hexane and non-ideal experimental effects ...

Ignition delay times, laminar flame speeds, and mechanism validation for natural gas/hydrogen blends at elevated pressures

Donohoe, Nicola; Heufer, Alexander; Metcalfe, Wayne K.; Curran, Henry J.; Davis, Marissa L.; Mathieu, Olivier; Plichta, Drew; Morones, Anibal; Petersen, Eric L.; Güthe, Felix (Elsevier, 2013-12-30)

New experimental ignition delay time data measured in both a shock tube and in a rapid compression machine were taken to determine the increase in reactivity due to the addition of hydrogen to mixtures of methane and natural ...

Autoignition of ethanol in a rapid compression machine

Mittal, Gaurav; Burke, Sinéad M.; Davies, Varun A.; Parajuli, Bikash; Metcalfe, Wayne K.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2013-12-09)

Ethanol is a renewable source of energy and significant attention has been directed to the development of a validated chemical kinetic mechanism for this fuel. The experimental data for the autoignition of ethanol in the ...

An experimental and modeling study of shock tube and rapid compression machine ignition of n-butylbenzene/air mixtures

Nakamura, Hisashi; Darcy, Daniel; Mehl, Marco; Tobin, Colin J.; Metcalfe, Wayne K.; Pitz, William J.; Westbrook, Charles K.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2013-08-28)

In our previous work (D. Darcy, C.J. Tobin, K. Yasunaga, J.M. Simmie, J. Wurmel, W.K. Metcalfe, T. Niass, S.S. Ahmed, C.K. Westbrook, H.J. Curran, Combust. Flame 159 (2012) 2219-2232), ignition delay times of n-butylbenzene ...

Using rapid compression machines for chemical kinetics studies

Sung, Chih-Jen; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2014-04-26)

Rapid compression machines (RCMs) are used to simulate a single compression stroke of an internal combustion engine without some of the complicated swirl bowl geometry, cycle-to-cycle variation, residual gas, and other ...

Towards a kinetic understanding of the NOx promoting-effect on ignition of coalbed methane: A case study of methane/nitrogen dioxide mixtures

Deng, Fuquan; Yang, Feiyu; Zhang, Peng; Pan, Youshun; Bugler, John; Curran, Henry J.; Zhang, Yingjia; Huang, Zuohua (Elsevier, 2016-05-03)

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is an important impurity in coal-bed methane (CBM) and a dominant component of NOx pollution in practical engines. Its promoting effect on methane ignition has been studied in the current experimental ...

An ignition delay time and chemical kinetic modeling study of the pentane isomers

Bugler, John; Heufer, Karl A.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2016-10-26)

Ignition delay times of n-pentane, iso-pentane, and neo-pentane mixtures were measured in two shock tubes and in a rapid compression machine. The experimental data were used as validation targets for the model described ...