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Experimental Study and a Short Kinetic Model for High-Temperature Oxidation of Methyl Methacrylate

Dakshnamurthy, Shanmugasundaram ; Knyazkov, Denis A. ; Dmitriev, Artem M. ; Korobeinichev, Oleg P. ; Nilsson, Elna J.K. LU orcid ; Konnov, Alexander A. LU and Narayanaswamy, Krithika (2019) In Combustion Science and Technology 191(10). p.1789-1814
Abstract

Synthetic and natural polymeric esters find applications in transport and construction sectors, where fire safety is an important concern. One polymer that is widely used is poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), which almost completely undergoes thermal decomposition into methyl methacrylate (its monomer) CH2=C(CH3) - C(= O) - O - CH3 (MMA) at ~250–300°C. In order to analyze the high-temperature gas-phase oxidation of PMMA, and thereby predict its fire behavior (such as burning rate, temperature of the material, and heat fluxes) with less computational effort, a compact kinetic model for the oxidation of its primary decomposition product, MMA, is most essential. This is accomplished in the present work by... (More)

Synthetic and natural polymeric esters find applications in transport and construction sectors, where fire safety is an important concern. One polymer that is widely used is poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), which almost completely undergoes thermal decomposition into methyl methacrylate (its monomer) CH2=C(CH3) - C(= O) - O - CH3 (MMA) at ~250–300°C. In order to analyze the high-temperature gas-phase oxidation of PMMA, and thereby predict its fire behavior (such as burning rate, temperature of the material, and heat fluxes) with less computational effort, a compact kinetic model for the oxidation of its primary decomposition product, MMA, is most essential. This is accomplished in the present work by obtaining a reduced mechanism for MMA oxidation from a detailed mechanism from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories group. To extend the available data base for model validation and present validation data at atmospheric pressure conditions, for the first time, (i) detailed measurements of species profiles have been performed in stoichiometric laminar flat flames using flame sampling molecular beam mass spectrometry (MBMS) technique and (ii) laminar burning velocities have been obtained using the heat flux method for various unburnt mixture temperatures. Evaluating the model against these data sets point to the need to revise the kinetic model, which is achieved by adopting rate constants of key reactions among analogous molecules from recent literature. The updated compact kinetic model is able to predict the major species in the flat flame as well as the burning velocity of MMA satisfactorily. The final “short MMA mechanism” consists of 88 species and 1084 reactions.

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Combustion Science and Technology
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10.1080/00102202.2018.1535492
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  author       = {{Dakshnamurthy, Shanmugasundaram and Knyazkov, Denis A. and Dmitriev, Artem M. and Korobeinichev, Oleg P. and Nilsson, Elna J.K. and Konnov, Alexander A. and Narayanaswamy, Krithika}},
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  keywords     = {{kinetics; laminar burning velocity; laminar flat flame; methylmethacrylate; short model}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{10}},
  pages        = {{1789--1814}},
  publisher    = {{Taylor & Francis}},
  series       = {{Combustion Science and Technology}},
  title        = {{Experimental Study and a Short Kinetic Model for High-Temperature Oxidation of Methyl Methacrylate}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00102202.2018.1535492}},
  doi          = {{10.1080/00102202.2018.1535492}},
  volume       = {{191}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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