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The ignition delay times for mixtures of isopropyl nitrate (IPN) with air and argon are measured in a rapid-injection reactor at a pressure of 1 atm and in a shock tube at 2–3 atm. It is shown that the ignition delay time τ of mixtures in which heat is largely released due to oxidation by the oxygen contained in the IPN molecule is determined by the unimolecular decomposition of IPN over the entire temperature range covered (500–730 K). For mixtures in which heat is mainly produced by oxidation reactions involving air oxygen, the ignition delay time at high temperatures is controlled by secondary reactions of oxidation of the hydrocarbon moiety of the IPN molecule, leading to an increase in τ by more than an order of magnitude. Liquid IPN burns in a nitrogen atmosphere only at pressures above 40 atm, at a linear rate of ~4 mm/s. The measured flame temperatures are in close agreement with the respective values calculated using a thermodynamic code.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Borisov, K.Ya. Troshin, V.N. Mikhalkin, 2016, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2016, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 42–46.
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Borisov, A.A., Troshin, K.Y. & Mikhalkin, V.N. Ignition and combustion of isopropyl nitrate. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 10, 780–784 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793116050031
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