- Author
- Wu, C. H. | Kern, R. D.
- Title
- Pyrolysis of Acetylene Behind Reflected Shock Waves.
- Coporate
- New Orleans Univ., LA
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Contract
- DE-FG05-85ER13400
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Canadian and Western States Section. Spring Meeting, 1986. April 27-30, 1986., Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1-7 p., 1986
- Keywords
- acetylene | thermal decomposition
- Abstract
- Acetylene is a major product in the pyrolyses of aromatic hydrocarbons and other soot producing fuels such as allene and butadiene. It is interesting to note however that C2H2 shows the least sooting tendency when compared to the following fuels: toulene, benzene, allene, vinylacetylene, acetylene. The thermal decomposition of C2H2 has been investigated for the past 40 years using a wide variety of experimental techniques. The temperatures and total pressures covered in these studies covered the intervals 625-3400 K and 0.3-12 atm. The work described herein emphasizes the high temperature shock tube results. The experimental techniques involved single pulse shock tube analysis (SPST), atomic resonance absorption spectrometry (ARAS), laser schlieren desitometry (LS), UV absorption, laser extinction and time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF)