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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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Methanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines

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Alternative fuels for internal combustion engines

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A review of the combustion and emissions properties of advanced transportation biofuels and their impact on existing and future engines

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A comprehensive review of measurements and data analysis of laminar burning velocities for various fuel+air mixtures

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Recent progress in gasoline surrogate fuels

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the available experimental and chemical kinetic studies which have been performed to better understand the combustion properties of gasoline fuels and their surrogates can be found in this paper, where a detailed analysis is presented for the various classes of compounds used in formulating gasoline surrogate fuels, including n-paraffins, isoparaffin, olefins, naphthenes and aromatics.
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Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for 1-butanol and 1-propanol production via the keto-acid pathways

TL;DR: This work systematically improved the synthesis of 1-propanol and 1-butanol through deregulation of amino-acid biosynthesis and elimination of competing pathways.
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Optimization and analysis of large chemical kinetic mechanisms using the solution mapping method—combustion of methane

TL;DR: In this article, a solution mapping technique is applied to a large-scale dynamic model to determine an optimum set of parameters for a methane combustion mechanism, which is then used in a joint multiparameter multi-data-set optimization.
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Combustion of n-butanol in a spark-ignition IC engine

TL;DR: In this paper, a single-cylinder cooperative fuels research engine (CFR) with variable compression ratio manufactured by Waukesha Engine Company is used to provide air control and port fuel injection.
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