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HERO ID
1656542
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
A chemical kinetic study of n-butanol oxidation at elevated pressure in a jet stirred reactor
Author(s)
Dagaut, P; Sarathy, SM; Thomson, MJ
Year
2009
Is Peer Reviewed?
1
Journal
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
ISSN:
1540-7489
EISSN:
1873-2704
Volume
32
Page Numbers
229-237
DOI
10.1016/j.proci.2008.05.005
Web of Science Id
WOS:000264756800022
Abstract
Biofuels are attractive alternatives to petroleum derived transportation fuels. n-Butanol, or biobutanol, is one alternative biofuel that can replace gasoline and diesel in transportation applications. similar to ethanol, n-butanol can be produced via the fermentation of sugars, starches, and lignocelluloses obtained from agricultural feedstocks. n-Butanol has several advantages over ethanol, but the detailed combustion characteristics are not well understood. This paper studies the oxidation of n-butanol in a jet stirred reactor at 10 atm and a range of equivalence ratios. The profiles for CO, CO2, H2O, H-2, C-1-C-4 hydrocarbons, and C-1-C-4 oxygenated compounds are presented herein. High levels of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water, hydrogen, methane, formaldehyde, ethylene, and propene are detected. The experimental data are used to validate a novel detailed chemical kinetic mechanism for n-butanol oxidation. The proposed mechanism well predicts the concentration of major product species at all temperatures and equivalence ratios studied. Insights into the prediction of other species are presented herein. The proposed mechanism indicates that n-butanol consumption is dominated by H-atom abstraction from the alpha, beta, and gamma carbon atoms. A sensitivity analysis is also presented to show the effects of reaction kinetics on the concentration of several poorly predicted species. (C) 2009 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords
n-Butanol; 1-Butanol; Jet stirred reactor; Kinetic modeling; Reaction mechanism
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