The Mechanism of High Temperature Combustion of Propane and Butane

Abstract

By combination of a mechanism describing lean and moderately rich combustion of alkanes and alkenes with a mechanism describing rich combustion and formation of soot pre-cursors in acetylene flames, a general reaction scheme is developed for the simulation of lean and rich high-temperature combustion of hydrocarbons up to C₄ - species. Results of these simulations are compared to experimental data, and some consequences of this reaction scheme are discussed with respect to future experimental work on rich flames of propane and butane.