EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY AND KINETIC-ANALYSIS OF THE OXIDATION OF LIGHT-HYDROCARBON MIXTURES

The combustion of various C-1-C-2 hydrocarbon mixtures has been experi mentally investigated in a continuous perfectly stirred reactor, in a temperature range from 1000 to 1300 K, and at stoichiometric ratio val ues between 0.5 and 1.5. The concentration values of several molecular species have been measured by GC analysis. The data obtained have bee n compared with the predictions of two different detailed kinetic mode ls: both fail to predict the experimental trends in various situations : This leads to the conclusion that experimental data based on mixture s of hydrocarbons must be obtained to validate detailed kinetic mechan isms.