An improved kinetic mechanism for 3-pentanone pyrolysis and oxidation developed using multispecies time histories in shock-tubes

Laser-based OH, CO, CH3, and H2O species histories during 3-pentanone oxidation were measured behind reflected shock waves over the temperature range of 1277–1678 K at pressures around 1.6 atm, and for equivalence ratios of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5, complementing recent work also conducted in this laboratory (Lam et al., 2012). These data are used to develop an improved detailed kinetic mechanism for 3-pentanone pyrolysis and oxidation. A 3-pentanone...