Help understanding an experiment set up

In summary, the paper is discussing a pyrolysis experiment where a known flow rate of 99.5% isobutene and 99.998% nitrogen were introduced into a 6mm ID quartz reactor. The mole fraction of isobutene, O2, and N2 needs to be calculated, but the paper does not mention the amount of O2 in the mixture. It is later clarified that the experiment is actually about pyrolysis, not combustion, so no O2 is needed and the inlet mixture is likely 50% isobutene and 50% N2.
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Hi, I'm reading a paper about combustion and I can't understand the composition of the inlet mixture. Here's what the paper says:

"A known flow rate of the isobutene (Matheson, TriGas, 99.5%) in nitrogen (General Air, 99.998%) was introduced into a 6mm ID quartz reactor that was heated in an electric furnace..."

I need to calculate the mole fraction of isbutene, O2, and N2 but I don't understand the above sentence. Any suggestion would be of great help!

PS. isobutene = isobutylene

PSS: I find very strange that in a combustion experiment is not mentioned the amount of O2 in the mixture... Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I didn't find anything else in the paper

PSS: I forgot an important part: there is a line that says "N2/iC4H8 = 50/50 % mol"
 
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Can you give the reference?
 
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dRic2 said:
I find very strange that in a combustion experiment is not mentioned the amount of O2 in the mixture... Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I didn't find anything else in the paper

Check whether the paper is about "combustion" or "pyrolysis".
 
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Lord Jestocost said:
Check whether the paper is about "combustion" or "pyrolysis".
Oh, I'm an idiot...

It says pyrolysis so no O2 is needed, then I assume the inlet mixture is just 0.5 isobutene and 0.5 N2, right ?
 

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