TY - JOUR
TI - Comparison of different chemical kinetic mechanisms of methane combustion in an internal combustion engine configuration
AU - Ennetta Ridha
AU - Hamdi Mohamed
AU - Said Rachid
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2008
VL - 12
IS - 1
SP - 43
EP - 51
PT - Article
AB - Three chemical kinetic mechanisms of methane combustion were tested and compared using the internal combustion engine model of Chemkin 4.02 [1]: one-step global reaction mechanism, four-step mechanism, and the standard detailed scheme GRIMECH 3.0. This study shows good concordances, especially between the four-step and the detailed mechanisms in the prediction of temperature and main species profiles. But reduced schemes were incapables to predict pollutant emissions in an internal combustion engine. The four-step mechanism can only predict CO emissions but without good agreement.