To help understand how methane ignition occurs in gas turbines, dual-fuel diesel engines and other combustion devices, the present study addresses reaction mechanisms with the objective of predicting autoignition times for temperatures between 1000 K and 2000 K, pressures between 1 bar and 150 bar and equivalence ratio between 0.4 and 3. It extends our previous methane flame chemistry and refines earlier methane ignition work. In addition to a detailed mechanism, short mechanisms are presented that retain essential features of the detailed mechanism. The detailed mechanism consists of 127 elementary reactions among 31 species and results in 9 intermediate species being most important in autoignition, namely, CH3, OH, HO2, H2O2, CH2O, CHO, CH3O, H, O. Below 1300 K the last 3 of these are unimportant, but above 1400 K all are significant. To further simplify the computation, systematically reduced chemistry is developed, and an analytical solution for ignition delay times is obtained in the low-temperature range. For most fuels, a single Arrhenius fit for the ignition delay is adequate, but for hydrogen the temperature sensitivity becomes stronger at low temperatures. The present study predicts that, contrary to hydrogen, for methane the temperature sensitivity of the autoignition delay becomes stronger at high temperatures, above 1400 K, and weaker at low temperatures, below 1300 K. Predictions are in good agreement with shock-tube experiments. The results may be employed to estimate ignition delay times in practical combustors.
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ASME Turbo Expo 2000: Power for Land, Sea, and Air
May 8–11, 2000
Munich, Germany
Conference Sponsors:
- International Gas Turbine Institute
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978-0-7918-7855-2
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Reaction Mechanisms for Methane Ignition
S. C. Li,
S. C. Li
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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F. A. Williams
F. A. Williams
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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S. C. Li
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
F. A. Williams
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Paper No:
2000-GT-0145, V002T02A061; 16 pages
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August 4, 2014
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Li, SC, & Williams, FA. "Reaction Mechanisms for Methane Ignition." Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2000: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. Volume 2: Coal, Biomass and Alternative Fuels; Combustion and Fuels; Oil and Gas Applications; Cycle Innovations. Munich, Germany. May 8–11, 2000. V002T02A061. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/2000-GT-0145
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