This experimental study investigated the preignition reactivity behavior of a gasoline surrogate in a pressurized flow reactor over the low and intermediate temperature regime (600-800 K) at elevated pressure (8 atm). The surrogate mixture, a volumetric blend of 4.6% 1-pentene, 31.8% toluene, 14.0% n-heptane, and 49.6% 2,2,4-trimethyl-pentane (iso-octane), was shown to reproduce the low and intermediate temperature reactivity of full boiling range fuels in a previous study. Each of the ...
A research program to study the oxidation chemistry of xylenes at high pressures has been conducted at Drexel University. The current program was initiated in August 2007 through an STIR grant from the Army Research Office (Grant No. W9111NF-07-1-0522, Proposal No. 53267-EG-II) and was completed in May 2008. The objectives of this project were to determine the relative reactivity of the xylene isomers at preignition and autoignition conditions, to study ...
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