Modeling the reactive processes within a catalytic porous medium

A one-dimensional modelling approach to the reactive processes within a heated homogeneously premixed fuel–air mixture in its passage through a non-adiabatic catalytically reactive porous medium is described. The main focus of this contribution was comparison of the results obtained while using different modeling approaches that include mass diffusion to solid pores versus neglecting it; single step reaction versus detailed kinetic simulation; adiabatic versus non-adiabatic reactor operation; two different approaches accounting for radiation heat transfer. This model was tailored to our experimental results so as to obtain original kinetic data for corresponding global reactions for different types of catalysts and validate at the same time the predictive approaches.