Detailed Chemical Kinetic Modeling of Combustion of Biodiesel Fuels from a Wide Variety of Plant and Other Oils

摘要

A detailed chemical kinetic reaction mechanism developed for the major components of soy and rapeseed oil methyl ester biodiesel fuels is used to simulate combustion of biodiesel fuels derived from other vegetable oils and animal fats. Variations in combustion properties of these different fuels are related to differences in the compositions of the fuels, all within the limits of all of the fuels being constituted from the same five basic methyl ester components. The primary factor determining differences in combustion properties is shown to be the number of C＝C double bonds in some of these components.