High temperature oxidation of propene

An ignition delay correlation is established for propene-oxygen-argon mixtures on the basis of over 100 experiments with component concentrations being in the ranges of 0.6-1.6 percent for propene and 2.7-14.4 percent for oxygen diluted in argon. Temperatures in the range of 1274-1840 K were achieved, with average initial pressures ranging from 50 to 133 torr. Furthermore, standard numerical solutions were obtained using LSODE and CHEMEQ integration techniques, covering 59 reactions and 29 species. The partial agreement between the results indicates that the scheme used is adequate but incomplete. Two possible oxidative path-determining loops were identified, though neither was found conclusively superior to the other.