Rich premixed laminar methane flames doped by light unsaturated hydrocarbons: II. 1,3-Butadiene

Abstract In line with the study presented in Part I of this paper, the structure of a rich premixed laminar methane flame doped with 1,3-butadiene has been investigated. The flame contains 20.7% (molar) of methane, 31.4% of oxygen, and 3.3% of 1,3-butadiene, corresponding to an equivalence ratio of 1.8, and a C 4 H 6 /CH 4 ratio of 16%. The flame has been stabilized on a burner at a pressure of 6.7 kPa using argon as dilutant, with a gas velocity at the burner of 36 cm/s at 333 K. The temperature ranged from 600 K close to the burner up to 2150 K. Quantified species included the usual methane C 0 –C 2 combustion products and 1,3-butadiene, but also propyne, allene, propene, propane, 1,2-butadiene, butynes, vinylacetylene, diacetylene, 1,3-pentadiene, 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene (isoprene), 1-pentene, 3-methyl-1-butene, benzene, and toluene. To model these new results, some improvements have been made to a mechanism previously developed in our laboratory for the reactions of C 3 –C 4 unsaturated hydrocarbons. The main reaction pathways of consumption of 1,3-butadiene and of formation of C 6 aromatic species have been derived from flow rate analyses. In this case, the C 4 route to benzene formation plays an important role in comparison to the C 3 pathway.