Experimental and kinetic study on ignition delay times of lean n-butane/hydrogen/argon mixtures at elevated pressures

Measurements on ignition delay times of n-butane/hydrogen/oxygen mixtures diluted by argon were conducted using the shock tube at pressures of 2, 10 and 20 atm, temperatures from 1000 to 1600 K and hydrogen fractions (XH2) from 0 to 98%. It is found that hydrogen addition has a non-linear promoting effect on ignition delay of n-butane. Results also show that for XH2 less than 95%, ignition delay time shows an Arrhenius type dependence and the increase of pressure and temperature lead to shorter ignition delay times. However, for XH2 = 98% and 100% mixtures, non-monotonic pressure dependence of ignition delay time were observed. The performances of the Aramco2.0 model, San Diego 2016 model and USC2.0 model were evaluated against the experimental data. Only the Aramco2.0 model gives a reasonable agreement with all the measurements, which was conducted in this study to interpret the effect of pressure and hydrogen addition on the ignition chemistry of n-butane.