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Autoignition of Adiabatically Compressed Combustible Gas Mixtures
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Measurements of explosion limits for fuel/air/diluent mixtures compressed by an expanding laminar flame have been made in a constant volume spherical bomb. The fuels studied to date range from butane to octane at fuel/air equivalence ratios from 0.8 to 1.3. The explosion pressures and temperatures range from 10 to 100 atm and 650 to 850 K. The pressure versus time curves show the behavior typical of the two-stage ignition process observed in rapid compression machines.
A branched chain kinetic model has been developed to correlate the data. The model has been used to predict both the explosion limits measured in the current bomb experiments and ignition delays measured in prior rapid compression machine experiments. Good agreement between experiment and theory can be achieved with minor adjustment in published rate constants.
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Hu, H. and Keck, J., "Autoignition of Adiabatically Compressed Combustible Gas Mixtures," SAE Technical Paper 872110, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/872110.Also In
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