Effect of ethanol addition on soot precursors emissions during benzene oxidation in a jet-stirred reactor
Yacine Rezgui1, Miloud Guemini
1Laboratoire de Chimie Appliquée et Technologie des Matériaux, Université d'Oum El Bouaghi, B.P. 358, Route de Constantine, Oum El Bouaghi, 04000, Algeria, yacinereference@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
A constant volume reactor model (PSR) was used to investigate the effect of ethanol addition on the formation of some pollutants during benzene oxidation in a jet-stirred reactor. The blended fuels were formed by incrementally adding 4% wt of oxygen (ethanol) to the neat benzene fuel and by keeping the inert mole fraction (nitrogen) and the equivalence ratio constants. The main objective of this work was to obtain fundamental understanding of the mechanisms through which the oxygenate compound affects soot precursor amounts. The modeling results showed that C2H2, C5H5, and C3H3 mole fractions decreased upon increasing the ethanol percentage in the fuel mixture.
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