Prediction and measurement of pollutant emissions in CNG fired internal combustion engine

In the present study, the detailed reaction mechanisms were developed and Chemkin 4.1.1 was implemented to predict the formation of pollutant species in compressed natural gas (CNG) fired internal combustion (IC) engine. The proposed mechanisms were developed by coupling the EXGAS (an automatic mechanism generation tool for alkane oxidation) mechanisms with the Leed's NOx mechanism (version 2.0). The simulation results of each proposed mechanism were validated by the experimental measurements for profiles of temperature, pressure and pollutant species (CO, NOx). The rate of production analysis of each mechanism identified the important reactions in each mechanism which contributed to the formation of pollutant species. In spite of some discrepancies, the experimental measurements indicate that Mechanism-IV (consisting of 208 reactions and 78 species) showed closer agreement for each of the predicted profiles of temperature, pressure and pollutant species (CO, NOx).     

Kinetic models of natural gas combustion in an internal combustion engine

In this study, combustion of methane was simulated using four kinetic models of methane in CHEMKIN 4.1.1 for 0-D closed internal combustion (IC) engine reactor. Two detailed (GRIMECH3.0 & UBC MECH2.0) and two reduced (One step & Four steps) models were examined for various IC engine designs. The detailed models (GRIMECH3.0, & UBC MECH2.0) and 4-step models successfully predicted the combustion while global model was unable to predict any combustion reaction. This study illustrated that the detailed model sh...     

Highly Reduced Species Mechanisms for iso‐Cetane Using the Local Self‐Similarity Tabulation Method

We utilize the local self‐similarity tabulation method to drastically downsize the number of species involved in a detailed kinetic mechanism of iso‐cetane. Reduced‐species mechanisms of 20 and 15 species are constructed, out of the 1114 species involved in the detailed mechanism, with a focus on high‐pressure combustion. The performance of the two reduced mechanisms are compared to the detailed one for a lean (? = 0.5), stoichiometric (? = 1.0), and rich (? = 1.5) iso‐cetane/air mixture at initial temperatures of 900 and 1100 K and constant pressures of 20 and 40 bar. Good to very good agreement between the detailed kinetic mechanism and the two highly reduced species mechanisms are demonstrated.     

高碳烃宽温度范围燃烧机理构建及动力学模拟

发动机中燃料点火特性以及燃烧能量的释放对于发动机设计具有非常重要的作用,为了提高燃料的燃烧效率以及减少燃料在燃烧过程中污染物的排放,基于反应动力学机理对燃料燃烧过程的模拟就显得十分必要。因此需要更加深入的认识碳氢燃料的燃烧机理,探索其在燃烧过程中十分复杂的化学反应网络。为了发展能够适用于实际燃料多工况条件(宽温度范围、宽压力范围和不同当量比)燃烧的燃烧机理,基于碳氢燃料机理自动生成程序ReaxGen构建了正癸烷燃烧详细机理(包含1499个物种,5713步反应)和正十一烷燃烧详细机理(包含1843个物种,6993步反应)。详细机理主要由小分子核心机理和高碳烃类(C5以上)机理两部分组成。为了验证机理的合理性与可靠性,本文对于高碳烃燃烧新机理在点火延时时间以及物种浓度曲线进行了动力学分析,并与实验数据及国内外同类机理进行了对比,结果表明本文提出的正癸烷和正十一烷燃烧新机理在比较宽泛的温度、压力和当量比条件下都具有较高的模拟精度,为发展精确航空煤油燃烧模型提供了基础数据。同时考虑到详细机理的复杂性以及机理分析的计算量大和时耗长,本文基于误差传播的直接关系图形(Directed Relation Graph with Error Propagation,DRGEP)方法简化得到的包含709组分2793反应的正癸烷和包含820组分3115反应的正十一烷简化机理,使用DRGEP方法时所采用的数据点选自压力范围从1.0×10~5 Pa到1.0×10~6Pa,当量比范围从0.5到2.0,初始温度范围从600到1400时恒压点火的模拟结果在点火延迟时间附近区域的抽样,同时在正癸烷机理简化中选取正癸烷、O_2和N_2作为初始预选组分,正十一烷的机理简化中主要选取正十一烷、O_2和N_2作为初始预选组分,得到的简化机理在比较宽泛的条件下的预测结果与详细机理吻合很好。最后结合敏感度分析方法分析了正癸烷和正十一烷的点火延迟敏感性,考察了机理中影响点火的关键反应。结果表明:这些机理能够合理描述正癸烷和正十一烷的自点火特性,在工程计算流体力学仿真设计中有很好的应用前景。     

Reduced combustion time model for methane in gas turbine flow fields

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the complex processes that occur within the burner of a gas turbine engine has become a critical step in the design process. However, due to computer limitations, it is very difficult to completely couple the fluid mechanics solver with the full combustion chemistry. Therefore, simplified chemistry models are required, and the topic of this research was to provide reduced chemistry models for CH4/O2 gas turbine flow fields to be integrated into CFD codes for the simulation of flow fields of natural gas-fueled burners. The reduction procedure for the CH4/O2 model utilized a response modeling technique wherein the full mechanism was solved over a range of temperatures, pressures, and mixture ratios to establish the response of a particular variable, namely the chemical reaction time. The conditions covered were between 1000 and 2500 K for temperature, 0.1 and 2 for equivalence ratio in air, and 0.1 and 50 atm for pressure. The kinetic time models in the form of ignition time correlations are given in Arrhenius-type formulas as functions of equivaience ratio, temperature, and pressure; or fuel-to-air ratio, temperature, and pressure. A single ignition time model was obtained for the entire range of conditions, and separate models for the low-temperature and high-temperature regions as well as for fuel-lean and rich cases were also derived. Predictions using the reduced model were verified using results from the full mechanism and empirical correlations from experiments. The models are intended for (but not limited to) use in CFD codes for flow field simulations of gas turbine combustors in which initial conditions and degree of mixedness of the fuel and air are key factors in achieving stable and robust combustion processes and acceptable emission levels. The chemical time model was utilized successfully in CFD simulations of a generic gas turbine combustor with four different cases with various levels of fuel-air premixing.     

A detailed reaction mechanism for hexamethyldisiloxane combustion via experiments and ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulations

Hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) is one of the main impurities in the syngas produced from sewage and landfill plants. In order to utilize this syngas or control the characteristics of the generated silica particles, it is crucial to understand the chemical kinetics of HMDSO combustion. This study investigated the process of HMDSO combustion using synchrotron radiation mass spectrometry (SRMS), gas chromatography (GC), and ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulations. First, the force field used for ReaxFF simulation was validated by comparing the energies of different bond lengths, bond angles, and dihedral angles with the ones from DFT calculations. Good agreements were found. Then, ReaxFF simulations of HMDSO combustion with this force field were conducted under various conditions, which include different equivalence ratios (0.67, 1.0, and 1.5) and temperatures ranging from 2000 to 3500 K. The oxidation characteristics of HMDSO were analyzed, including the evolution of gas products and particle formation. Finally, based on the results from experiments and ReaxFF simulations, the reaction pathways, reaction lists, and reaction kinetics data during HMDSO combustion were obtained. A detailed reaction mechanism was proposed and validated by applying it in modeling the H₂/HMDSO/O₂ combustion systems. The temperature and part of the gas products such as CO and CO₂ as well as SiO could be well predicted.     

Development and application of a ReaxFF reactive force field for hydrogen combustion

To investigate the reaction kinetics of hydrogen combustion at high-pressure and high-temperature conditions, we constructed a ReaxFF training set to include reaction energies and transition states relevant to hydrogen combustion and optimized the ReaxFF force field parameters against training data obtained from quantum mechanical calculations and experimental values. The optimized ReaxFF potential functions were used to run NVT MD (i.e., molecular dynamics simulation with fixed number of atoms, volume, and temperature) simulations for various H(2)/O(2) mixtures. We observed that the hydroperoxyl (HO(2)) radical plays a key role in the reaction kinetics at our input conditions (T ≥ 3000 K, P > 400 atm). The reaction mechanism observed is in good agreement with predictions of existing continuum-scale kinetic models for hydrogen combustion, and a transition of reaction mechanism is observed as we move from high pressure, low temperature to low pressure, high temperature. Since ReaxFF derives its parameters from quantum mechanical data and can simulate reaction pathways without any preconditioning, we believe that atomistic simulations through ReaxFF could be a useful tool in enhancing existing continuum-scale kinetic models for prediction of hydrogen combustion kinetics at high-pressure and high-temperature conditions, which otherwise is difficult to attain through experiments.     

两相流中煤粉的燃烧机理及动力学特征

利用微型流化床动力学分析仪研究了两相流条件下无烟煤粉的燃烧反应机理和动力学特征,并与热重法所得结果进行比较分析。结果表明,当温度大于850℃时,煤粉燃烧机理发生了变化,燃烧气态产物的生成比例也随之改变;当气速大于0.10 m/s时,气体扩散限制基本被消除,煤粉燃烧反应速率主要受界面化学反应控制;煤粉燃烧反应速率随着氧气分压的增大呈幂函数形式增长,且氧气分压对煤粉静置燃烧的影响更加显著。煤氧两相流燃烧的表观活化能与静置燃烧相比降低了49 kJ/mol,相同温度条件下两相流燃烧的界面化学反应阻力也明显小于热重法测试结果。     

庚酸甲酯高温燃烧化学动力学机理的系统简化和分析

采用详细化学反应动力学机理的系统简化方法, 对庚酸甲酯高温燃烧化学动力学机理进行了系统简化. 首先采用两步直接关系图法(Directed relation graph method, DRG)和主成分分析(Principle component analysis, PCA)方法对由1087个物种、4592步可逆反应组成的庚酸甲酯燃烧的详细机理进行框架简化, 得到了包含108个物种, 547步基元反应的框架机理. 在此框架机理基础上, 进一步采用计算奇异值摄动法(Computational singular perturbation, CSP)对框架机理进行时间尺度分析, 再选取30个准稳态物种, 采用准稳态近似(Quasi steady state approximation, QSSA)方法构建了包含78个物种、74步总包反应的全局简化机理. 模拟结果表明, 在较宽的参数范围内, 框架机理和全局简化机理均能重现庚酸甲酯高温燃烧时的点火延迟、物种浓度分布和熄火等燃烧特性. 此外, 基于框架机理阐明了庚酸甲酯高温燃烧的反应路径和对点火有重要影响的基元反应. 与详细机理相比, 框架机理保留了良好的精确性和全局性, 可以很好地反映庚酸甲酯的燃烧特性, 有助于对生物柴油的燃烧过程的理解.     

燃烧反应机理构建的极小反应网络方法——氢氧燃烧

基于化学同时平衡原理,提出复杂反应体系的极小反应网络方法(MRN),在指定中间物种数目条件下,构建反应步数最小的详细燃烧反应机理.确定了8个物种的氢氧燃烧的6个独立反应,对缺乏动力学参数的独立反应进行组合替代,反应速率常数采用Arrhenius双参数形式.采用构建的9步反应氢氧燃烧机理(MRN-C0)进行了点火延迟时间和层流火焰速度的模拟.     

Challenges and perspectives of combustion chemistry research

In the past decades, combustion chemistry research grew rapidly due to the development of combustion diagnostic methods,quantum chemistry methods, kinetic theory, and computational techniques. A lot of kinetic models have been developed for fuels from hydrogen to transportation fuel surrogates. Besides, multi-scale research method has been widely adopted to develop comprehensive models, which are expected to cover combustion conditions in real combustion devices. However, critical gaps still remain between the laboratory research and real engine application due to the insufficient research work on high pressure and low temperature combustion chemistry. Besides, there is also a great need of predictive pollutant formation model. Further development of combustion chemistry research depends on a closer interaction of combustion diagnostics, theoretical calculation and kinetic model development. This paper summarizes the recent progress in combustion chemistry research briefly and outlines the challenges and perspectives.     

Benzene combustion: A detailed chemical kinetic modeling in laminar flames conditions

Models resulting from the merging of validated kinetic schemes were used to compile a new detailed mechanism for benzene combustion in laminar flames. The proposed model, featuring 215 species and 1313 reactions, has been validated using fuel-rich, low-pressure, premixed benzene-oxygen-argon flames available in the literature. Good agreement between simulated and experimental data is achieved for the major reactants, intermediates, and products. However, computed maxima for some polyaromatic hydrocarbons were lower than experimental ones.     

Experimental investigation on the effect of natural gas premixed ratio on combustion and emissions in an IDI engine

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Usage of natural gas in an internal combustion engine that has different combustion technologies is considered a possible solution to reduce engine...     

Introductory lecture. Advanced laser spectroscopy in combustion chemistry: from elementary steps to practical devices

In recent years a large number of linear and nonlinear laser-based diagnostic techniques for nonintrusive measurements of species concentrations, temperatures, and gas velocities in a wide pressure and temperature range with high temporal and spatial resolution have been developed and have become extremely valuable tools to study many aspects of combustion. Beside the nonintrusive diagnostics of technical combustion devices the kinetics and microscopic dynamics of elementary chemical combustion reactions can be investigated in great detail by laser spectroscopy. These investigations show, that a small number of relatively simple elementary steps like H + O2-->OH + O, H2O2-->2OH, O + N2-->NO + N, NH2 + NO-->H2O + N2, OH + N2H control a large variety of combustion phenomena and pollutant formation processes. Laminar flames are ideal objects to develop the application of laser spectroscopic methods for practical combustion systems and to test and improve the gas-phase reaction mechanism in combustion models. Nonintrusive laser point and field measurements are of basic importance in the validation and further development of turbulent combustion models. Nonlinear laser spectroscopic techniques using infrared-visible sum-frequency generation can now bridge the pressure and materials gap to provide kinetic data for catalytic combustion. Finally, the potential of laser techniques for active combustion control in municipal waste incinerators is illustrated.     

适用于HCCI燃烧研究的甲苯参比燃料化学动力学简化模型

提出了一个适用于均质压燃着火(HCCI)燃烧过程的甲苯参比燃料简化机理模型, 包含70种组分和196个反应. 低温简化机理选用Tanaka等人构建的基础燃料氧化机理中的部分反应, 加入本文构建的甲苯简化子机理中. 高温简化机理主要利用到Patel等人的研究成果, 同时加入关键反应[H+O₂+M=O+OH+M]. 简化机理分别对替代混合物中的单组分、双组分、三组分物质进行了着火延迟期的预测计算, 预测结果与实验结果较为吻合. 与HCCI发动机实验的验证表明, 对于各工况下甲苯参比燃料的缸内计算, 该机理的预测能力是令人满意的. 由此可知, 本文提出的TRF简化机理在HCCI燃烧方面的预测性能是可靠的. HCCI发动机工况下最大放热率时刻的敏感性分析表明, 随着压力的升高, C₆H₅与O₂的反应变得更加重要; 甲醛是非常重要的中间产物, 是不应当被忽略的.     

正十二烷高温机理简化及验证

由于详细化学反应机理在模拟燃烧室燃烧时,计算量极大,很难被广泛运用。为了满足工程设计要求,采用替代燃料的简化机理进行计算不失为一种行之有效的方法。本文基于误差传播的直接关系图法和敏感性分析法对正十二烷180组分1962步高温机理(温度大于1100 K)进行简化,获得40组分234步化学反应机理。在温度为1100–1650 K,压力为0.1–4 MPa条件下,采用简化机理及详细机理对不同当量比、压力下着火延迟时间进行模拟,模拟结果与实验数据吻合得较好。通过对不同压力及温度下火焰传播速度进行模拟,验证了简化机理能够正确地反映正十二烷的燃烧特性。利用C_(12)H_(26)/OH/H_2O/CO_2等重要组分随时间变化的数据,验证了简化机理能够准确描述燃烧过程反应物消耗、基团变化、生成物产生的过程,并表明该机理具有较高的模拟精度。利用该简化机理对本生灯进行数值分析,结果表明该机理能够准确地反映火焰区温度和组分浓度的变化。紧凑的正十二烷高温简化机理不仅能够正确体现其物理化学特性,而且能够用于三维数值模拟,具有较高的工程运用价值和应用前景。     

Automatic reduction of detailed mechanisms of combustion of alkanes by chemical lumping

This article presents an automatic method for reducing a detailed primary mechanism of combustion of any single alkane. Free radicals having the same molecular formula and the same functional groups are lumped into one single species. The number of free radicals of the primary mechanism is divided by a factor 16 in the case of n‐heptane. The kinetic parameters of lumped reactions are computed as weighted means of individual rate constants without any fitting process. The simulations of lumped and detailed mechanisms of combustion of isooctane and n‐heptane show a good agreement in a wide temperature range (600–1200 K). © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 32: 36–51, 2000     

正十二烷高温燃烧详细化学动力学机理的系统简化

采用详细化学反应动力学机理的系统简化方法, 以典型航空燃料的替代组分正十二烷为研究对象, 开展了正十二烷高温燃烧化学动力学机理的系统简化. 首先采用多步直接关系图法(DRG)和基于计算奇异值摄动法(CSP)重要性指标的反应移除方法对由1279个组分, 5056个基元反应组成的正十二烷燃烧详细机理进行框架简化, 得到了包含59 个组分, 222 个基元反应的框架机理; 进一步采用CSP对框架机理进行时间尺度分析, 选出了10个准稳态物种, 采用准稳态近似方法(QSSA)构建了包含49个组分的全局简化机理. 计算结果表明, 在较宽的参数范围内, 框架机理和全局简化机理均能够重现正十二烷详细机理在高温燃烧的点火延迟时间、熄火以及物种浓度分布等方面的模拟结果.     

铜基催化剂上甲烷催化燃烧反应动力学特性研究

采用固定床微分反应器,在常压、450~500℃、甲烷体积分数10%~35%条件下,进行铜基催化剂上甲烷催化燃烧动力学特性研究。研究表明,甲烷分压对反应速率影响显著,而氧气分压的影响可以忽略。采用最小二乘法进行动力学模型参数估计,建立的反应动力学模型为-rCH4=1.61×107×e-108 000/RT×pCH40.5。检验结果表明,所建模型与实验数据良好相容,是适宜和可信的。根据实验结果推断甲烷催化燃烧分两步进行,首先氧气快速与铜基催化剂上活性空位点反应,形成吸附氧气分子;随后吸附氧气分子和甲烷分子反应,生成二氧化碳和水。     

Comprehensive H2/O2 kinetic model for high‐pressure combustion

An updated H₂/O₂ kinetic model based on that of Li et al. (Int J Chem Kinet 36, 2004, 566–575) is presented and tested against a wide range of combustion targets. The primary motivations of the model revision are to incorporate recent improvements in rate constant treatment and resolve discrepancies between experimental data and predictions using recently published kinetic models in dilute, high‐pressure flames. Attempts are made to identify major remaining sources of uncertainties, in both the reaction rate parameters and the assumptions of the kinetic model, affecting predictions of relevant combustion behavior. With regard to model parameters, present uncertainties in the temperature and pressure dependence of rate constants for HO₂ formation and consumption reactions are demonstrated to substantially affect predictive capabilities at high‐pressure, low‐temperature conditions. With regard to model assumptions, calculations are performed to investigate several reactions/processes that have not received much attention previously. Results from ab initio calculations and modeling studies imply that inclusion of H + HO₂ = H₂O + O in the kinetic model might be warranted, though further studies are necessary to ascertain its role in combustion modeling. In addition, it appears that characterization of nonlinear bath‐gas mixture rule behavior for H + O₂(+ M) = HO₂(+ M) in multicomponent bath gases might be necessary to predict high‐pressure flame speeds within ～15%. The updated model is tested against all of the previous validation targets considered by Li et al. as well as new targets from a number of recent studies. Special attention is devoted to establishing a context for evaluating model performance against experimental data by careful consideration of uncertainties in measurements, initial conditions, and physical model assumptions. For example, ignition delay times in shock tubes are shown to be sensitive to potential impurity effects, which have been suggested to accelerate early radical pool growth in shock tube speciation studies. In addition, speciation predictions in burner‐stabilized flames are found to be more sensitive to uncertainties in experimental boundary conditions than to uncertainties in kinetics and transport. Predictions using the present model adequately reproduce previous validation targets and show substantially improved agreement against recent high‐pressure flame speed and shock tube speciation measurements. Comparisons of predictions of several other kinetic models with the experimental data for nearly the entire validation set used here are also provided in the Supporting Information. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 44: 444–474, 2012