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ENCIT 2016
16th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
ANALYSIS OF DIFFUSION FLAMES OF METHYL BUTANOATE
Submission Author:
Jean Pinho , SC
Co-Authors:
Fábio Ronei Rodrigues Padilha, Felipe Minuzzi, Alvaro de Bortoli
Presenter: Jean Pinho
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENCIT2016.CIT2016-0176
Abstract
The replacement of fossil fuels by biofuels intensifies day by day. The Biodiesel is a complex mixture of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMES) and is the main candidate to replace petroleum diesel. Methyl Butanoate (MB) is a small chain methyl ester selected as a biodiesel surrogate. This work makes an analysis of the temperature and geometry of laminar diffusion flames of MB for a configuration frequently used in the industry. The chemistry is evaluated based on a reduced kinetic mechanism obtained using the techniques DRG, DFS and Sensitivity Analysis. The main chain of the reduced kinetic mechanism is presented. For the flow are solved the equations of motion, mixture fraction, to obtain the temperature, and mass fraction of species. Obtained results show good agreement with experimental data available in the literature for jet diffusion flames of biodiesel surrogates.
Keywords
Diffusion Flame, Reduced Kinetic Mechanism, Methyl Butanoate, Biodiesel Surrogates, Numerical simulation
