Ab initio calculation and kinetic modeling study of diethyl ether ignition with application toward a skeletal mechanism for CI engine modeling

Quantum chemistry and rate constants of reactions such as H-abstraction of diethyl ether (DEE) by H, OH, HO2, O and CH3 radicals as well as DEE and DEE radicals decomposition and isomerization were carried out through high-level ab initio and RRKM master equation computations. A comparison was made between some of the calculated rate constants and literature data. A detailed kinetic mechanism for DEE ignition contains 341 species and 1867...