CM0901
COST Action CM901:
Detailed Chemical Kinetic Models for Cleaner Combustion
The main objective of the Action is to promote the development of cleaner and more efficient combustion processes through the design and implementation of better defined and more accurate chemical kinetic models.
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CM0901 3nd Annual Meeting
Sofia-Bulgaria: 5,6 & 7 September 2012[more]
The key objective of this Action is to promote at the European level the development of cleaner and more efficient combustion technologies through the implementation of theoretically grounded and more accurate chemical models. This will be achieved by gathering European experts working on the theory and computation of elementary reactions, on detailed kinetic modelling in a variety of combustion environments, on experimental measurements in reactors, rapid compression machines, shock tubes and burners and on the assemblage, as well, of technologically advanced industrial devices. This is motivated by the fact that the current models which have been developed for the combustion of hydrocarbons and oxygenated compounds present in natural gas, kerosene, gasoline, diesel and bio-fuels do a reasonable job in predicting auto-ignition and flame propagation parameters, and the formation of the main regulated pollutants. However their success rate deteriorates sharply in the prediction of the formation of minor products (alkenes, dienes, aromatics, aldehydes) and soot nano-particles, which have a deleterious impact on both the environment and on human health. The launch of this action would represent, therefore a big step forward in our understanding of this economically valuable, politically and socially desirable and scientifically challenging issue.
The scientific work within the action is divided among 5 working groups:
| Group | Topic |
| WG1 | Enlargement of the range of families of initial reactants for which well-validated detailed combustion models are available. |
| WG2 | Writing of models of the formation and consumption of oxygenated pollutants. |
| WG3 | Improvement of the models for formation of polyaromatic compounds and soot. |
| WG4 | Improvement of the methods for mechanism reduction and uncertainty analysis. |
| WG5 | Experimental and theoretical determination of thermochemical parameters and rate coefficients for elementary steps crucial for successful simulation, but for which important uncertainties remain. |