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Alcohol combustion chemistry

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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.
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This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2014-10-01. It has received 676 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alcohol fuel & Combustion.

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Numerical Investigation on the Influence of Injection Location and Injection Strategy on a High-Pressure Direct Injection Diesel/Methanol Dual-Fuel Engine

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Thermal decomposition of isopentanol: A theoretical calculation and kinetic modeling analysis

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Modeling Combustions: The ab initio Treatment of the O($$^3$$P) + CH$$_3$$OH Reaction

TL;DR: This work tackled the problem of dealing in an ab initio fashion with the description of the methanol oxidation reaction by calculating the electronic structure of the O-CH3OH system and the dynamical properties of the process using quantum techniques.
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Kinetics of Combustion

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide the fundamental knowledge on fuel oxidation pathways and their dependences on conditions and to validate the mechanisms against carefully selected experimental test cases and illustrate some current research subjects and strategies.
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Ethanol flameless combustion

TL;DR: In this article , a survey of recent achievements on ethanol flameless combustion is presented, and valuable insights in understanding the fundamentals of this combustion methodology are provided, as well as a discussion on the most notable outcomes of these studies.
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