Title: Comparative Investigation of the High Pressure Autoignition of the Butanol Isomers,
Abstract: Investigation of the autoignition delay of the butanol isomers has been
performed at elevated pressures of 15 bar and 30 bar and low to intermediate
temperatures of 680-860 K. The reactivity of the stoichiometric isomers of
butanol, in terms of inverse ignition delay, was ranked as n-butanol >
sec-butanol ~ iso-butanol > tert-butanol at a compressed pressure of 15 bar but
changed to n-butanol > tert-butanol > sec-butanol > iso-butanol at 30 bar. For
the temperature and pressure conditions in this study, no NTC or two-stage
ignition behavior were observed. However, for both of the compressed pressures
studied in this work, tert-butanol exhibited unique pre-ignition heat release
characteristics. As such, tert-butanol was further studied at two additional
equivalence ratios ($\phi$ = 0.5 and 2.0) to help determine the cause of the
heat release.