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The ignition delay times of 2, 5-Dihydrofuran (25DHF) were measured behind reflected shock waves at the pressures of 4, 10atm, temperatures of 1110-1650 K, for the lean (φ= 0.5) and stoichiometric (φ= 1.0) mixtures with fixed fuel concentration of 0.5%. The correlations of ignition delay times to initial parameters were fitted in an Arrhenius-like form for the two fuels by multiregression analysis. Simulations based on Liu model, Somers model and Tran model were presented and compared to experiment data. Subsequently, reaction pathway and sensitivity analysis were performed in low and high temperature to obtain insight into the ignition kinetic by using Liu model. Reaction path analysis shows that there are two main ways in the consumption of 25DHF and the main intermediates are C3H5Y, sC3H5 and propylene etc. Some reactions which involved the main intermediate products presented important effect on the whole ignition of 25DHF.

High temperature ignition delays of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran(MTHF) were measured behind a reflected shock tube under conditions of pressures from 1.2 to 10 atm, temperatures from 1050 to 1800 K, equivalence ratios from 0.5 to 2.0, and fuel concentrations of 0.25%, 0.5% and 1.0% diluted in argon. Results showed that the ignition delay of MTHF decreases with the increase of pressure, temperature, fuel concentration and increases with equivalence ratio. The trend is less notable at higher fuel concentrations and equivalence ratios. Based on sensitivity and pathway analysis at pressure of 10 atm, fuel concentration of 1.0%, equivalence ratio of 1.0 and temperature of 1550K, it was found that the most sensitive reaction of MTHF at high temperature is H+O2=O+OH, and the main consumption way is fuel decomposition instead of H-abstraction. Finally, ignition delays of MTHF were compared with THF both on experimental and kinetic analyses, and MTHF has lower ignition delays than THF.