Modeling of high-temperature catalytic combustors:: Comparison between theory and experimental data

The objective of this work was to model experimental results using the simplest possible mathematical model. Here we report on preliminary results obtained with a one-dimensional model used for parameter-fitting of experimental combustion data with an inlet temperature ramp. It was possible to fit our one-dimensional model with simple power law kinetics to an experimental curve. It was also possible to use a quasi-steady state model with a computing time about a hundred times shorter than for a corresponding transient model. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.