2.2.3. Propane Mechanism

Two chemistry sets for propane fuels (mechanism name: c3h8) have been included:

  1. propane_MFL2017.cks

  2. propane_pseudo-gas-soot_MFL2017.cks

The first chemistry set can be used with any acetylene-based empirical soot model, and the second set includes the pseudo-gas soot model. The focus of both the chemistry sets are on modeling combustion at in gas turbines. They can be used to predict CO, HC (hydrocarbons), and NOx emissions from turbines. The mechanism has been reduced for the following range of conditions:

  1. Pressure: 1–20 bar

  2. Temperature: 800–2000 K

  3. Equivalence ratio: 0.5–3

  4. EGR: 0–20%

This mechanism has been reduced from the full mechanism “GaseousFuels_C0-C6_NOx” in the MFL database, which has been thoroughly validated against fundamental experimental data for the operating conditions of interest for gas turbines. The mechanism was reduced from this comprehensive full mechanism using the Reaction Workbench software, for the conditions listed above.