A reduction method for detailed kinetic mechanisms is presented. The reduction procedure was performed by using the ignition delay time as the target parameter. Overall, good qualitative and quantitative comparison was observed between the reduced mechanism results and experimental parameters such as ignition delay time, laminar burning speed, and concentrations in a jet-stirred reactor. The resulting reduced mechanism was used in multi-dimensional numerical simulations to predict the ignition behavior and thresholds of reactive gas adjacent to hot surfaces. Errors of less than 10% were observed between the numerical and experimental ignition thresholds indicating the adequacy of the reduction procedure.