Uniqueness in the low temperature oxidation of cycloalkanes

Y Yang; AL Boehman; JM Simmie

Journal article

Uniqueness in the low temperature oxidation of cycloalkanes

Y Yang, AL Boehman, JM Simmie

Combustion and Flame | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.06.005

Abstract

This work examines the inherent features in the low temperature oxidation of cycloalkanes which distinguish cyclic alkanes from open-chain alkanes. The first part of the discussion is based on the recent motored-engine studies of cyclic hydrocarbons, [Yang and Boehman, Proc. Combust. Inst. 32, p. 419; Yang and Boehman, Combust. Flame, 157, p. 495], and focuses on the formation of conjugate olefins in low temperature oxidation. While less reactive than linear alkanes of similar size, cyclic hydrocarbons produced significant amounts of conjugate olefins during low temperature oxidation, which is uncharacteristic of linear alkanes. Conformational analyses in this paper and in a companion paper ..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors thank Daniel Strope, George Parks, Garry Gunter and Bradley Taylor of ConocoPhillips for their support of this work. The authors also thank Dania Alvarez Fonseca for the assistance in GC analysis.Computational resources were provided by the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, ICHEC, and supported by an EU Transfer of Knowledge grant (MKTD-CT-2004-517248).