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A shock tube study of cyclopentane and cyclohexane ignition at elevated pressures

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 10 2008
Shane M. Daley
Ignition delay times for cyclopentane/air and cyclohexane/air mixtures were measured in a shock tube at temperatures of 847,1379 K, pressures of 11,61 atm, and equivalence ratios of , = 1.0, 0.5, and 0.25. Ignition times were determined using electronically excited OH emission monitored through the shock tube endwall and piezoelectric pressure measurements made in the shock tube sidewall. The dependence of ignition time on pressure, temperature, and equivalence ratio is quantified and correlations for ignition time formulated. Measured ignition times are compared to kinetic modeling predictions from four recently published mechanisms. The data presented provide a database for the validation of cycloalkane kinetic mechanisms at the elevated pressures found in practical combustion engines. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 40: 624,634, 2008 [source]

The Effect of Cook-Off on the Bulk Permeability of a Plastic Bonded Explosive

PROPELLANTS, EXPLOSIVES, PYROTECHNICS, Issue 5 2006
Guillermo Terrones
Abstract Plastic bonded explosives when exposed to prolonged heating environments undergo a variety of changes that affect their bulk chemical, thermophysical, and mechanical properties. During slow heating conditions, referred to as cook-off, the thermal behavior of the polymeric binder plays an important role in the transformations of these composite energetic materials. The recently introduced Darcian flow hypothesis for PBX-9501 implies that, during preignition, temperature gradients will lead to pressure gradients which in turn will drive convection of decomposition gases throughout the explosive, thus affecting ignition time and location. Here, we focus on the cook-off behavior of PBX-9501 and investigate its effects on bulk permeability to gases produced as a result of thermal decomposition. The concept of Darcian convection through porous media is defined and illustrated in detail by the derivation of the governing equations for a permeameter. Based on a systematic analysis involving: 1) our current understanding about binder behavior as a function of temperature, 2) the physics of the gas permeameter apparatus, 3) the concept of liquid drainage by gas, and 4) the experimental record of four permeameter experiments with cooked PBX-9501, we conclude that samples heated up to 186,°C were not permeable in the Darcy-flow sense. [source]

A shock tube study of cyclopentane and cyclohexane ignition at elevated pressures

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 10 2008
Shane M. Daley
Ignition delay times for cyclopentane/air and cyclohexane/air mixtures were measured in a shock tube at temperatures of 847,1379 K, pressures of 11,61 atm, and equivalence ratios of , = 1.0, 0.5, and 0.25. Ignition times were determined using electronically excited OH emission monitored through the shock tube endwall and piezoelectric pressure measurements made in the shock tube sidewall. The dependence of ignition time on pressure, temperature, and equivalence ratio is quantified and correlations for ignition time formulated. Measured ignition times are compared to kinetic modeling predictions from four recently published mechanisms. The data presented provide a database for the validation of cycloalkane kinetic mechanisms at the elevated pressures found in practical combustion engines. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 40: 624,634, 2008 [source]

OH concentration time histories in n -alkane oxidation

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 12 2001
D. F. Davidson
OH radical concentration time histories were measured behind reflected shocks in the oxidation of four n -alkanes: propane, n -butane, n -heptane, and n -decane. Initial reflected shock conditions of these measurements were 1357,1784 K, 2.02,3.80 atm, with fuel concentrations of 300,2000 ppm, and equivalence ratios from 0.8 to 1.2. OH concentrations were measured using narrow-linewidth ring-dye laser absorption of the R1(5) line of the A,X (0,0) transition at 306.5 nm. These concentration time-history measurements were compared to the modeled predictions of eight large n -alkane oxidation mechanisms currently available in the literature and the kinetic implications of these measurements are discussed. These data, in conjunction with recent measurements of n -alkane ignition times and ethylene yields in n -alkane pyrolysis experiments, also performed in this laboratory, provide a unique database of species concentration time histories for n -alkane mechanism validation. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 33: 775,783, 2001 [source]