Autoignition delay time measurements of methane, ethane, and propane pure fuels and methane-based fuel blends

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Holton, M M ^a   Gokulakrishnan, P ^a   Klassen, M S ^a   Roby, R J ^a   Jackson, G S ^b  

^a Combustion Science and Engineering Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS CORRELATION; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; AUTO-IGNITION DELAY; AUTO-IGNITION DELAY TIME; DETAILED KINETICS; EFFECT OF CO; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; FUEL BLENDS; FUEL MIXTURES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INLET TEMPERATURE; METHANE FUEL; NATURAL GAS COMPONENTS; TERNARY MIXTURES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BINARY MIXTURES; ETHANE; EXPERIMENTS; METHANE; PROPANE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FUELS;

EID: 77955246729     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000590     Document Type: Article

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