Kinetic modeling study of surrogate components for gasoline, jet and diesel fuels: C7-C11 methylated aromatics

Kinetic mechanisms for aromatics are needed to successfully simulate the autoignition of transportation fuels using the surrogate fuel approach. An aromatic detailed kinetic mechanism that describes kinetics of C7-C11 methylated aromatics, including toluene, o-xylene, p-xylene, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, 1,3,5, trimethylbenzene and α−methylnaphthalene has been developed in the current study. The kinetic mechanism was built hierarchically using...