KINETIC MODELING OF ETHYLENE OXIDATION

The oxidation of ethylene was studied in a jet stirred flow reactor in the temperature range 900-1200K at pressures extending from 1 to 10 atm for a wide range of fuel-oxygen equivalence ratios (0. 15-4. 0). A computer program has been developed to model the experimental data using a chemical kinetic reaction mechanism. A direct method to determine the first order sensitivities of the mole fraction of each species with respect to the rate constants was used to develop the kinetic scheme. The chemical kinetic reaction mechanism is able to reproduce our experimental results, although some discrepancies are observed for the minor products, particularly for acetylene.