Technical Paper
Validation Studies of a Detailed Kinetics Mechanism for Diesel and Gasoline Surrogate Fuels
2010-04-12
2010-01-0545
Surrogate fuels used in simulations need to capture the physical, combustion and emission characteristics of the real diesel and gasoline fuels they represent. This requirement can result in complex surrogate fuels that are blends of components representing several chemical classes, such as normal-, cyclo- and iso-alkanes, alkenes and aromatics. With a palette of around 20 potential surrogate-fuel components we can identify a blend to represent the most important physical and chemical properties of a particular real fuel. However, a detailed chemical kinetics mechanism is required to use such a surrogate in a model of the in-cylinder combustion processes. The detailed mechanism must capture the relevant kinetic pathways for all of the surrogate-fuel components. To this end, we have assembled a large comprehensive kinetic mechanism that includes several thousands of species to represent the combustion behavior of a wide range of surrogate fuels for gasoline and diesel.