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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

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

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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Revised global kinetic measurements of methanol oxidation in supercritical water

TL;DR: In this article, a revised global rate expression with Arrhenius parameters and a full interpretation of these new data are provided in light of a systematic temperature measurement error discovered in the earlier set of experiments.
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Measurements of Laminar Burning Velocities and Markstein Lengths of n-Butanol−Air Premixed Mixtures at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of laminar flame thickness, thermal expansion ratio, and flame Lewis number on flame stability response were studied using high-speed schlieren photography and outwardly propagating flame.
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High-temperature oxidation of ethanol. Part 1.—Ignition delays in shock waves

TL;DR: In this article, the ignition characteristics of ethanol-oxygen mixtures have been studied behind reflected shock waves from 1080 to 1660 K, in the pressure range 1.8-4.6 bar and with equivalence ratios, ϕ, varying from 0.25 to 2, through measurements of the ignition delay times associated with pressure rise, τp, or light emission, τCO-O and τOH.
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Ethanol Oxidation and Its Interaction with Nitric Oxide

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental and theoretical study of the oxidation of ethanol in absence and in the presence of NO has been performed in an isothermal quartz flow reactor at the University of Sheffield.
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Optical diagnostics of the combustion process in a PFI SI boosted engine fueled with butanol–gasoline blend

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of butanol addition to gasoline was investigated in a ported fuel injection single-cylinder SI engine with an external boosting device, where the fuel was injected at closed (CV) and open intake valves (OV).
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