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Abstract
In recent experimental investigations, ethylene glycol is used as a model substance for biomass-based pyrolysis oil in an entrained flow gasifier. In order to gain a deeper insight into process sequences and to conduct parametric analysis, this study describes the development and validation of a detailed chemical kinetic model of high-temperature ethylene glycol gasification. A detailed reaction mechanism based on elementary reactions has been developed considering 80 species and 1243 reactions for application in CFD software. In addition to mechanism validation based on ignition delay times, laminar flame speeds and concentration profiles, simulation results are compared to experimental data of ethylene glycol gasification under complex turbulent reactive flow conditions.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the project partners from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for providing experimental data and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Grant Nr. 03SF0320D), as well as the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp) in the Excellence Initiative of the German Science Foundation (DFG; Graduate School GSC 220) for the financial support of the project.