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Pelucchi M, Namysl S, Ranzi E, Rodriguez A, Rizzo C, Somers KP, Zhang Y, Herbinet O, Curran HJ, Battin-Leclerc F, Faravelli T. Combustion of n-C 3-C 6 Linear Alcohols: An Experimental and Kinetic Modeling Study. Part I: Reaction Classes, Rate Rules, Model Lumping, and Validation. Energy Fuels 2020; 34:14688-14707. [PMID: 33250570 PMCID: PMC7685228 DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
This work (and the companion paper, Part II) presents new experimental data for the combustion of n-C3-C6 alcohols (n-propanol, n-butanol, n-pentanol, n-hexanol) and a lumped kinetic model to describe their pyrolysis and oxidation. The kinetic subsets for alcohol pyrolysis and oxidation from the CRECK kinetic model have been systematically updated to describe the pyrolysis and high- and low-temperature oxidation of this series of fuels. Using the reaction class approach, the reference kinetic parameters have been determined based on experimental, theoretical, and kinetic modeling studies previously reported in the literature, providing a consistent set of rate rules that allow easy extension and good predictive capability. The modeling approach is based on the assumption of an alkane-like and alcohol-specific moiety for the alcohol fuel molecules. A thorough review and discussion of the information available in the literature supports the selection of the kinetic parameters that are then applied to the n-C3-C6 alcohol series and extended for further proof to describe n-octanol oxidation. Because of space limitations, the large amount of information, and the comprehensive character of this study, the manuscript has been divided into two parts. Part I describes the kinetic model as well as the lumping techniques and provides a synoptic synthesis of its wide range validation made possible also by newly obtained experimental data. These include speciation measurements performed in a jet-stirred reactor (p = 107 kPa, T = 550-1100 K, φ = 0.5, 1.0, 2.0) for n-butanol, n-pentanol, and n-hexanol and ignition delay times of ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol, n-pentanol/air mixtures measured in a rapid compression machine at φ = 1.0, p = 10 and 30 bar, and T = 704-935 K. These data are presented and discussed in detail in Part II, together with detailed comparisons with model predictions and a deep kinetic discussion. This work provides new experimental targets that are useful for kinetic model development and validation (Part II), as well as an extensively validated kinetic model (Part I), which also contains subsets of other reference components for real fuels, thus allowing the assessment of combustion properties of new sustainable fuels and fuel mixtures.
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Affiliation(s)
- M. Pelucchi
- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, Nancy Cedex, France
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- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, Nancy Cedex, France
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- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Combustion
Chemistry Centre, National University of
Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- State
Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, Nancy Cedex, France
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- Combustion
Chemistry Centre, National University of
Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, Nancy Cedex, France
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- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Pelucchi M, Namysl S, Ranzi E, Rodriguez A, Rizzo C, Somers KP, Zhang Y, Herbinet O, Curran HJ, Battin-Leclerc F, Faravelli T. Combustion of n-C 3-C 6 Linear Alcohols: An Experimental and Kinetic Modeling Study. Part II: Speciation Measurements in a Jet-Stirred Reactor, Ignition Delay Time Measurements in a Rapid Compression Machine, Model Validation, and Kinetic Analysis. Energy Fuels 2020; 34:14708-14725. [PMID: 33250571 PMCID: PMC7685232 DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c02252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
This work presents new experimental data for n-C3-C6 alcohol, combustion (n-propanol, n-butanol, n-pentanol, n-hexanol). Speciation measurements have been carried out in a jet-stirred reactor (p = 107 kPa, T = 550-1100 K, φ = 0.5, 1.0, 2.0) for n-butanol, n-pentanol, and n-hexanol. Ignition delay times of ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol, and n-pentanol/air mixtures were measured in a rapid compression machine at φ = 1.0, p = 10 and 30 bar, and T = 704-935 K. The kinetic subsets for alcohol pyrolysis and oxidation from the CRECK kinetic model have been systematically updated to describe the pyrolysis and high- and low-temperature oxidation of this series of fuels as described in Part I of this work (Pelucchi M.; Namysl S.; Ranzi E.Combustion of n-C3-C6 linear alcohol: an experimental and kinetic modeling study. Part I: reaction classes, rate rules, model lumping and validation. Submitted to Energy and Fuels, 2020). Part II describes in detail the facilities used for this systematic experimental investigation of n-C3-C6 alcohol combustion and presents a complete validation of the kinetic model by means of comparisons with the new data and measurements previously reported in the literature for both pyrolytic and oxidative conditions. Kinetic analyses such as rate of production and sensitivity analyses are used to highlight the governing reaction pathways and reasons for existing deviations, motivating possible further improvements in our chemistry mechanism.
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Affiliation(s)
- M. Pelucchi
- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, 54000 Nancy Cedex, France
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- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, 54000 Nancy Cedex, France
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- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Combustion
Chemistry Centre, National University of
Ireland Galway, Galway H91 CF50, Ireland
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- State
Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, 54000 Nancy Cedex, France
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- Combustion
Chemistry Centre, National University of
Ireland Galway, Galway H91 CF50, Ireland
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- Laboratoire
Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, 54000 Nancy Cedex, France
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- CRECK
Modeling Lab, Department of Chemistry Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Cavallotti C, Pelucchi M, Georgievskii Y, Klippenstein SJ. EStokTP: Electronic Structure to Temperature- and Pressure-Dependent Rate Constants—A Code for Automatically Predicting the Thermal Kinetics of Reactions. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 15:1122-1145. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- C. Cavallotti
- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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Pelucchi M, Cavallotti C, Faravelli T, Klippenstein SJ. H-Abstraction reactions by OH, HO 2, O, O 2 and benzyl radical addition to O 2 and their implications for kinetic modelling of toluene oxidation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:10607-10627. [PMID: 29387837 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07779c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Alkylated aromatics constitute a significant fraction of the components commonly found in commercial fuels. Toluene is typically considered as a reference fuel. Together with n-heptane and iso-octane, it allows for realistic emulations of the behavior of real fuels by the means of surrogate mixture formulations. Moreover, it is a key precursor for the formation of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons, which are of relevance to understanding soot growth and oxidation mechanisms. In this study the POLIMI kinetic model is first updated based on the literature and on recent kinetic modelling studies of toluene pyrolysis and oxidation. Then, important reaction pathways are investigated by means of high-level theoretical methods, thereby advancing the present knowledge on toluene oxidation. H-Abstraction reactions by OH, HO2, O and O2, and the reactivity on the multi well benzyl-oxygen (C6H5CH2 + O2) potential energy surface (PES) were investigated using electronic structure calculations, transition state theory in its conventional, variational, and variable reaction coordinate forms (VRC-TST), and master equation calculations. Exploration of the effect on POLIMI model performance of literature rate constants and of the present calculations provides valuable guidelines for implementation of the new rate parameters in existing toluene kinetic models.
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- M Pelucchi
- Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G. Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
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Bongiovanni M, Casana M, Cicconi P, Pisacreta M, Codemo R, Pelucchi M, d'Arminio Monforte A, Bini T. Predictive factors of vascular intima media thickness in HIV-positive subjects. J Antimicrob Chemother 2007; 61:195-9. [PMID: 17999980 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The predictive factors of intima media thickness (IMT) in the HIV-infected population are still poorly understood. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied three groups of subjects, aged 30-50 years, to find potential predictive factors of carotid and/or femoral thickening (IMT > 1 mm in at least one area): healthy controls (G1, n = 54), HIV-infected naive (G2, n = 53) and highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART)-treated subjects (G3, n = 133). All the subjects underwent ultrasonography of the carotid and femoral vessels to evaluate IMT. RESULTS Demographic characteristics of the three groups were comparable, except for gender (G1 had a higher percentage of females) and lipid levels (higher in G3). A total of 115 subjects (47.9%) had carotid and/or femoral IMT: 26 in G1 (48.1%), 21 in G2 (39.6%) and 68 in G3 (51.1%). Independent predictive factors of carotid and/or femoral IMT were older age (OR: 2.81, 95% CI: 1.95-4.04, P < 0.01, for each additional 5 years), triglycerides >or=150 mg/dL (OR: 2.66, 95% CI: 1.27-5.57, P < 0.001), serum glucose >or=110 mg/dL (OR: 5.24, 95% CI: 1.02-27.05, P = 0.04), high homocysteinaemia (OR: 2.75, 95% CI: 1.17-6.46, P = 0.02) and high body mass index (OR: 1.10, 95% CI: 1-1.22, P = 0.05 for each additional unit); females had a lower risk (OR: 0.38, 95% CI: 0.18-0.79, P < 0.01 versus males). HAART use was not associated with IMT (OR: 0.64, 95% CI: 0.27-1.53, P = 0.32 and OR: 0.80, 95% CI: 0.30-2.13, P = 0.20 for G3 and G2 versus G1, respectively). CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that traditional risk factors for cardiovascular diseases overshadow the role of HAART in determining premature vascular lesions.
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- M Bongiovanni
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Via di Rudinì 8, 20142 Milan, Italy.
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