High-pressure laminar flame speeds and kinetic modeling of carbon monoxide/hydrogen combustion

Laminar flame speeds were accurately measured for CO/H-2/air and CO/H-2/O-2/helium mixtures at different equivalence ratios and mixing ratios by the constant-pressure spherical flame technique for pressures up to 40 atmospheres. A kinetic mechanism based on recently published reaction rate constants is presented to model these measured laminar flame speeds as well as a limited set of other experimental data. The reaction rate constant of CO + HO2 --> CO2 + OH was determined to be k = 1.15 x 10(5)T(2.278) exp(-17.55 kcal/RT) cm(3) mol(-1) s(-1) at 300-2500 K by ab initio calculations. The kinetic model accurately predicts Our measured flame speeds and the non-premixed counterflow ignition temperatures determined in our previous study, as well as homogeneous system data from literature, such as concentration profiles from flow reactor and ignition delay time from shock tube experiments. (C) 2006 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.