A vacuum ultraviolet photoionization study on oxidation of JP-10 (exo- Tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene)

We conducted an experimental study to unravel the oxidation of tricyclo[5.2.1.0(2,6)]decane (JP-10) utilizing a high-temperature flow tube reactor over a temperature range of 900 K to 1031 K and the pressure of 600 Torr with the residence times of 120 +/- 20 ms. The products were identified in-situ in a supersonic molecular beam via single photon vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization coupled with mass spectroscopic detection in a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer (Re-TOF). 62 species - among them 25 oxygenated molecules - were identified with the oxygenated species formed via oxidation of the hydrocarbon fragments formed in the decomposition of JP-10.