A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of the ignition delay time characteristics of ternary and quaternary blends of methane, ethane, ethylene, and propane over a wide range of temperature, pressure, equivalence ratio, and dilution

The authors would like to express their gratitude to Shell Research Ltd. and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) for funding via project numbers 15/IA/3177 and 16/SP/3829, and KAY-ICHEC via the project ngche079c. The authors from PCFC, RWTH Aachen University, would like to recognize the funding support from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) through project number – 322460823 (HE7599/2-1).