S. Zabarnick, CHEMICAL KINETIC MODELING OF JET FUEL AUTOXIDATION AND ANTIOXIDANT CHEMISTRY, Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 32(6), 1993, pp. 1012-1017
Chemical kinetic modeling has been performed in order to simulate the
chemical processes that occur during the autoxidation of jet fuels at
temperatures near 200-degrees-C. Rate parameters are ted for the eleme
ntary reactions that comprise the mechanism. The mechanism used treats
the fuel and antioxidant species as single compounds. The model is ab
le to reproduce the autoxidation chain mechanism that is responsible f
or oxygen removal in the fuel. The inhibition of oxygen removal by ant
ioxidants is reproduced successfully by the model. Also, the model pre
dicts that the thermal decomposition of alkyl hydroperoxides, even at
very small conversions, can play a crucial role in the oxidation mecha
nism.