I. A. Bolod’yan

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of diluents of various chemical nature [halogenated hydrocarbons, inhibitors developed at the Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Problems of Materials Science (ISMAN), superheated water aerosol] on the flammability limits of hydrogen-methane mixtures in air was investigated experimentally.

TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental regularities of hydrogen/oxygen combustion are considered, which unambiguously indicate the branched chain character of the process at atmospheric pressure, and the ignition conditions are determined by the competition between chain termination and both chain branching and chain propagation reactions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the critical conditions of chain thermal explosion of hydrogen-air and methane-air mixtures, and the observed regularities including the difference in critical conditions between the ignition and explosion of these combustibles were explained by considering the chemical mechanisms of oxidation of hydrogen and methane in the context of the nonlinear theory of nonisothermal chain processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the competition between the chain-branching and chain-terminating steps, the main factor determining the inflammation and combustionintensity, as well as the transfer of heat evolved in the chain combustion to adjacent layers of the gas mixture, provide an explanation for all features of critical conditions for flame propagation.

TL;DR: In this article, the role played by chain propagation, chain termination, and chain branching reactions in branched-chain processes led to conclusions that contradicted experimental data, and conditions under which this competition to a substantial extent determined the critical ignition conditions and the rate of the process were analyzed.