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The comparison of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms: Application to the combustion of methane
Author(s) -
Rolland Sébastien,
Simmie John M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of chemical kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1097-4601
pISSN - 0538-8066
DOI - 10.1002/kin.20019
Subject(s) - chemkin , chemistry , methane , combustion , kinetic energy , biochemical engineering , elementary reaction , chemical process , process engineering , kinetics , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms of complex chemical phenomena may be composed of hundreds of species and thousands of individual elementary reactions. It can be an extremely laborious and error‐prone procedure to compare two of these mechanisms, particularly if they come from different sources. We have created software tools which help to highlight the differences between mechanisms written in a Chemkin format and demonstrate their applicability to five literature mechanisms describing the high temperature oxidation of methane. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 36:467–471, 2004