A Comprehensive and Compact Mechanism for the Oxidation of methyl-Decanoate

Methyl-decanoate (MD) is an important surrogate fuel component representing the methyl-ester fraction in biodiesel. In recent years different experimental studies using MD as fuel were reported; detailed as well as reduced mechanisms were developed for both improving our kinetic understanding and engineering applications. Jet stirred reactor (JSR) experiments were performed by Dagaut et al. (2007) [1] with rapeseed oil at 1 and 10 atm, 800 to 1400 K with 0.25 to 1.5 s residence times. These experiments were simulated using n-hexadecane as reference fuel. A general similarity was noticed for major species (such as C2 to C6 olefins). The early formation of CO2 caused by the methyl-ester group was not captured by the model.