%0 Online Multimedia
%A Weber, Bryan
%A Sung, Chih-Jen
%D 2017
%T A Rapid Compression Study of the Butanol Isomers at Elevated Pressure
%U https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/A_Rapid_Compression_Study_of_the_Butanol_Isomers_at_Elevated_Pressure/5089519
%R 10.6084/m9.figshare.5089519.v1
%2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8627419
%K combustion
%K chemical kinetics
%K rapid compression machine
%K RCM
%K butanol
%K ignition
%K Reaction Kinetics and Dynamics
%K Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
%K Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
%X Presented at the 7th US National Technical Meeting of the Combustion Institute on 21 March 2011
Abstract:
To enable the transition away from non-renewable energy
sources, it is important to understand the fundamental combustion properties of
fuels created from renewable sources. One fuel of particular recent interest is
butanol. n-Butanol has received
significant attention as a transportation fuel with the potential to replace
ethanol and gasoline. In addition, there are three isomers of butanol (sec-,
iso-, and tert-butanol) which are being investigated as high octane gasoline
additives. The butanol system also comprises the smallest alcohol system with
primary, secondary and tertiary alcohol groups, so studying the butanol system
will provide a base from which to build models of higher alcohols.
Much of the recent work on the butanol system has focused on
n-butanol. Fundamental combustion
data such as laminar flame speeds, species sampling measurements and ignition
delays have all been reported for n-butanol,
but data is scarcer for the isomers. We present ignition delay data for all
four isomers of butanol at high pressure and low to intermediate temperature
using our Rapid Compression Machine.
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