Among renewable combustible fuels, n-pentanol is considered as a potential candidate.
In this work, we proposed and applied a novel mechanism reduction-assisted procedure
to optimize rate parameters of the recently developed n-pentanol part of the detailed
NUIGMech 1.1 multifuel combustion kinetic mechanism, which would be otherwise unfeasible.
According to our proposed method, first a precise reduced mechanism is developed,
which thus can be optimized effectively against experimental targets, then the tuned
parameter values are inserted back into the detailed model, whose accuracy thereby
can also be improved to a similar extent.
