%0 Online Multimedia
%A Weber, Bryan
%A Sung, Chih-Jen
%D 2017
%T Comparative Investigation of the High Pressure Autoignition of the Butanol Isomers
%U https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Comparative_Investigation_of_the_High_Pressure_Autoignition_of_the_Butanol_Isomers/5089540
%R 10.6084/m9.figshare.5089540.v1
%2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8627467
%K combustion
%K chemical kinetics
%K ignition
%K butanol
%K rapid compression machine
%K RCM
%K Reaction Kinetics and Dynamics
%K Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
%K Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
%X Presented at the Fall Technical Meeting of the Easter States Section of the Combustion Institute in Storrs, CT on 10 October 2011
Abstract:
Energy
security and climate change are driving development of fuels from many new
sources, particularly renewable bio-sources. One of the most familiar fuels
produced from bio-sources is ethanol. Despite its near ubiquity, ethanol is not
an ideal fuel for current engine technology. Among other problems, the
feedstocks typically used to produce ethanol compete with food sources, driving
up the cost of both fuel and food. To alleviate these concerns, a second
generation of biofuels is being developed. One of the most promising fuels in
the second generation of biofuels is butanol. Butanol has four isomers, which
makes it an ideal test case, since the system is small enough to be modeled
relatively easily but is large enough to represent the behavior of even larger
alcohols. This study will focus on the
high-pressure, low-temperature autoignition of the four butanol isomers, using
our heated rapid compression machine. Previous autoignition studies of the
butanol isomers have found several unexpected results, including no NTC region
and no two-stage ignition, in temperature and pressure ranges where alkanes
typically exhibit such behavior. The current work will extend the pressure,
temperature and concentration ranges of previous work to determine if such
behavior can be found.
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