Stephen Dooley

TL;DR: In this article, an implicit methodology based on chemical group theory was used to formulate a jet aviation fuel surrogate by the measurements of several combustion related fuel properties, and the validity of the proposed surrogate was evaluated by experimental measurement of select combustion properties of POSF 4658 and the POSF4658 surrogate.

TL;DR: A methodology for the formulation of surrogate fuels for the emulation of real fuel gas phase combustion kinetic phenomena pertinent to gas turbine combustion is described and tested in this article, where a mixture of n -dodecane/ iso-octane/1,3,5-trimethylbenzene/ n -propylbenzenesene is formulated in a predictive manner to exhibit the same gas phase combustions of a target Jet-A fuel by the sharing of fundamentally significant combustion property targets in addition to a prescribed commonality of chemical kinetically controlling intermediate species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the autoignition of methyl butanoate was studied at 1 and 4 atm in a shock tube over the temperature range 1250-1760 K at equivalence ratios of 1.5, 1.0, 0.5 and 0.25 at fuel concentrations of 0.59 and 3.13%.

TL;DR: Rate of production analyses using the detailed mechanisms shows that the faster reactivity of ethyl propanoate can be explained by a six-centered unimolecular decomposition reaction with a relatively low activation energy barrier producing propanoic acid and ethylene.

TL;DR: Using isodesmic and isogeitonic equations and atomization energies, chemically accurate enthalpies of formation and bond dissociation energies for the esters and species derived from them are estimated.