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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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High temperature ignition delay times of C5 primary alcohols

TL;DR: In this article, the ignition delay times of the three C5 primary alcohol isomers (n-pentanol, iso-pentanol, and 2-methyl-1-butanol) were measured behind reflected shock waves.
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A comparison of longer alkane and alcohol ignition including new experimental results for n-pentanol and n-hexanol

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new ignition delay time data at stoichiometric conditions for n -pentanol and n -hexanol both of which can be produced from renewable sources.
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Formation of soot and nitrogen oxides in unsteady counterflow diffusion flames

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of hydrodynamics on the formation of soot and nitrogen oxides in counterflow diffusion flames fed with propane by imposing harmonic oscillations on the strain rate of the flames.
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Kinetics of the reactions of the hydroxyl radical with CH3OH and C2H5OH between 235 and 360 K

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the kinetics of the reaction of the hydroxyl radical (OH) with methanol (1, rate coefficient k 1 ) and ethanol (2, rate coefficients k 2 ), using laser photolysis of a suitable OH-precursor to generate OH and laser induced fluorescence to detect it.
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