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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.About:
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.read more
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Exploring the combustion chemistry of a novel lignocellulose-derived biofuel: cyclopentanol. Part I: quantum chemistry calculation and kinetic modeling
Liming Cai,Leif C. Kröger,Malte Döntgen,Kai Leonhard,Krithika Narayanaswamy,S. Mani Sarathy,Karl Alexander Heufer,Heinz Pitsch +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical study on the oxidation and combustion of a novel biofuel compound, cyclopentanol, was performed using ab initio quantum chemistry methods, and its reaction kinetics and thermochemistry were first explored using AB-QA methods.
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Development and Validation of a New Reduced Diesel/n-Pentanol Mechanism for Diesel Engine Applications
Haozhong Huang,Delin Lv,Jizhen Zhu,Yingjie Chen,Zhaojun Zhu,Mingzhang Pan,Rong Huang,Chaojie Jia +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a reduced chemical kinetic mechanism of n-heptane, n-butylbenzene, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) was established.
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A multipurpose reduced chemical-kinetic mechanism for methanol combustion
TL;DR: In this paper, a reduced chemical-kinetic mechanism for methanol combustion comprising 8 overall reactions and 11 reacting chemical species is presented, based on a 27-step mechanism that has been previously tested and found to give accurate predictions of ignition processes for these conditions.
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Decomposition Studies of Isopropanol in a Variable Pressure Flow Reactor
TL;DR: In this article, Bui et al. reported new data on the dehydration reaction for isopropanol (iC3H7OH→ C3H6+H2O) in a Variable Pressure Flow Reactor at 12.5
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