An optimized kinetic model of H2/CO combustion

We propose a H-2-CO kinetic model which incorporates the recent thermodynamic, kinetic, and species transport updates relevant to high-temperature H-2 and CO oxidation. Attention has been placed on obtaining a comprehensive and kinetically accurate model able to predict a wide variety of H-2-CO combustion data. The model was subject to systematic optimization and validation tests against reliable H-2-CO combustion data, from global combustion properties (shock-tube ignition delays, laminar flame speeds, and extinction strain rates) to detailed species profiles during H-2 and CO oxidation in flow reactor and in laminar premixed flames. (c) 2004 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.