Abstract

<p>This paper – in memory of Jürgen Warnatz – summarizes selected recent papers of the Chemical Kinetics Group at the German Aerospace Center in Stuttgart. It shows the need for detailed chemical reaction mechanisms to understand practical combustion systems. A comprehensive description of combustion processes based on detailed mechanisms is especially important in the design of new gas turbine combustion chambers and in the optimization of existing ones to improve efficiency and to reduce pollutant emissions, with fuel-flexibility and load-flexibility ever becoming more important. Different aspects of combustion processes where detailed reaction mechanisms provide useful insights will be covered in this paper: Fuels (alternative jet fuels, biomass based fuels), pollutants (soot), diagnostics (chemiluminescence), and thermochemistry. Furthermore, the underlying thermodynamics inevitably connected with detailed reaction schemes will be addressed. Exemplified results will be presented clearly demonstrating the predictive capabilities of detailed reaction mechanisms to be explored in computational fluid dynamic simulations to further optimize technical combustion systems.</p>

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