Effects of Addition on Methane Ignition: Toward a Kinetic Understanding for Marine Engine Applications
Publication: Journal of Energy Engineering
Volume 147, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper presents a computational study of the effects of nitrogen and sulfur oxides doping on the ignition of methane-air mixtures under marine engine–like conditions. The performance of four detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms, appropriately coupled with nitrogen and sulfur chemistry reactions, is first assessed against literature experiments. An assembled mechanism is thus adopted and used to investigate doping effects on the ignition of homogeneous methane mixtures for a wide variation of pressure, temperature, equivalence ratio, and doping concentrations. Extensive rate-of-production analysis is performed in order to delineate chemical effects on ignition. The present results confirm that, in general, the addition of either NO or reduces ignition delay time. is found to be more drastic than NO at intermediate pressure; this trend is milder at high pressure. The effects of on ignition chemistry are not significant. An outcome of the present study is thus an operating grid, relevant for controlling marine engine combustion. The assembled mechanism, subject to reduction, can be used in marine engine computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
D. Kazangas gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the scholarship fellowship of the Research Committee (ELKE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). L. Kaiktsis acknowledges the financial support of the ECCO-MATE MC FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN (607214) Project. G. Skevis acknowledges the financial support of the MemCCSea Project (Accelerating CCS Technologies, Horizon 2020 Project No. 294766). All authors acknowledge the financial support of the SMARTCATS CM1404 COST Action.
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Received: Sep 17, 2020
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Published online: Feb 27, 2021
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