EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDY OF METHANE AND ETHANE OXIDATION BETWEEN 773 AND 1573 K

This paper describes an experimental and modelling study of the oxidat ion of methane and ethane, in an isothermal perfectly stirred reactor and a tubular flow reactor, at atmospheric pressure and temperatures b etween 773 and 1573 K. A particular effort has been made to build the mechanism, used for this modelling, in the most comprehensive way. Thi s mechanism has been generated in a systematic way; it includes all th e unimolecular or bimolecular reactions involving radicals or molecule s containing less than three carbon atoms and is based on kinetic data values which are mostly obtained from the data evaluations ((1-3)) re cently published in the literature and consistent with the thermochemi stry.