Nils Hansen

TL;DR: A detailed overview of recent results on alcohol combustion can be found in this paper, with a particular emphasis on butanols and other linear and branched members of the alcohol family, from methanol to hexanols.

TL;DR: Some characteristic aspects of the chemical pathways in the combustion of prototypical representatives of potential biofuels are highlighted, which focus on the decomposition and oxidation mechanisms and the formation of undesired, harmful, or toxic emissions.

TL;DR: The state of the art and further challenges of combustion chemistry research in laminar flames are reviewed in this paper, where various methods considered in this review are the flat, low-pressure, burner-stabilized premixed flame for chemical speciation studies, and the stagnation, spherically expanding, and burner stabilised flames for determining the global flame properties.

TL;DR: A review of molecular-beam mass spectrometry of premixed, laminar, low-pressure flat flames has been provided in this paper, focusing on critical aspects of the experimental approach including probe sampling effects, different ionization processes, and mass separation procedures.

TL;DR: Concentration profiles demonstrate that enol flame chemistry cannot be accounted for purely by keto-enol tautomerization, and currently accepted hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms will likely require revision to explain the formation and reactivity of these unexpected compounds.