Numerical Simulation and Experimental Verification of an Alternative to Biomass Fuel

Abstract

N-heptane was used as an alternative for biomass fuels research. A simplified mechanistic model of n-heptane oxidation has been studied in this paper. The calculation results reveal the relationship between ambience temperature and components. The environmental temperature acts on the chemical reaction mechanism, thus affecting the distribution of components. High temperature contributes to the formation of CO and C2H2, while low temperature contributes to the formation of CO2 and C2H2, and the influence of temperature on other components is not so obvious, such as C3H6 and so on. The experiment of biomass fuel combustion rate has a good agreement with that from the simulation of n-heptane, so we can conclude that this simplified n-heptane reaction mechanism model is a good alternative to biomass fuel study.