A global first-order kinetic study was conducted for the supercritical water reformation of jet fuel. Experiments were performed non-catalytically in a continuous mode of operation using supercritical water at various conditions in a specially designed Inconel 625 Grade-1 tubular reactor. The process was modeled as three separate reactions: pyrolysis of the jet fuel, reformation of the jet fuel, and the subsequent water gas shift of the resulting carbon monoxide. Global first order kinetics was assumed throughout, and two different pathways for the reformation and pyrolysis reactions were assumed. In this paper, the chemical kinetics of this novel process are elucidated based on the experimental data.

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