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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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Methanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of methanol as a pure fuel or a blend component for internal combustion engines (ICEs) is discussed, highlighting the differences with fuels such as ethanol and gasoline.
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Alternative fuels for internal combustion engines
Choongsik Bae,Jaeheun Kim +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of potential alternative fuels for automotive engine application for both spark ignition (SI) and compression ignition (CI) engines is presented, which includes applications of alternative fuels in advanced combustion research applications.
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A review of the combustion and emissions properties of advanced transportation biofuels and their impact on existing and future engines
TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental combustion and emissions properties of advanced biofuels are reviewed, and their impact on engine performance is discussed, in order to guide the selection of optimal conversion routes for obtaining desired fuel combustion properties.
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A comprehensive review of measurements and data analysis of laminar burning velocities for various fuel+air mixtures
Alexander A. Konnov,Akram Mohammad,Velamati Ratna Kishore,Nam Il Kim,Chockalingam Prathap,Sudarshan Kumar +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a brief review of spherical flame propagation method, counterflow/stagnation burner method, heat-flux method, annular stepwise method, externally heated diverging channel method, and Bunsen method is presented.
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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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Laminar burning velocities of n-heptane, iso-octane, ethanol and their binary and tertiary mixtures
TL;DR: In this paper, the adiabatic laminar burning velocities of n-heptane, iso-octane, ethanol and their binary and tertiary mixtures are reported.
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On the formation and early evolution of soot in turbulent nonpremixed flames
TL;DR: In this article, a direct numerical simulation of soot formation in an n-heptane/air turbulent non-premixed flame has been performed to investigate unsteady strain effects on soot growth and transport.
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A rapid compression machine for chemical kinetics studies at elevated pressures and temperatures
Gaurav Mittal,Chih-Jen Sung +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a rapid compression machine (RCM) was designed and fabricated for the purpose of chemical kinetics studies at elevated pressures and temperatures, and a deliberately machined crevice on the cylindrical surface of the piston was optimized to suppress the formation of the roll-up vortex and provide a homogeneous core of reaction mixture.
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Numerical and experimental studies of ethanol flames
TL;DR: In this paper, a new chemical-kinetic mechanism consisting of 192 elementary steps among 36 species, augmented by 53 additional steps and 14 additional species to address the formation of oxides of nitrogen and 43 steps and 7 species to addressing formation of compounds involving three carbon atoms.
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Combustion of butanol isomers – A detailed molecular beam mass spectrometry investigation of their flame chemistry
TL;DR: In this article, the combustion chemistry of the four butanol isomers, 1-, 2-, iso-and tert-butanol, was studied in flat, premixed, laminar low-pressure (40 mbar) flames of the respective alcohols.