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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

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

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

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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Kinetics of the reactions of HO with methanol (210–351 K) and with ethanol (216–368 K)

TL;DR: The present results, which extend the database on these reactions to cover temperatures relevant for the upper troposphere, are compared to previously published measurements, and values of k1 and k2 are recommended for atmospheric modelling.
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Shock tube study on homogeneous thermal oxidation of methanol

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the thermal oxidation of methanol-oxygen mixtures, highly diluted with argon, by following infrared emission of various species during the course of the reaction, and obtained the profiles of some species from the numerical integration of 57 reactions and were compared with the measured results.
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An experimental and kinetic modeling study of n-propanol and i-propanol ignition at high temperatures

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed kinetic model consisting of 238 species and 1448 reactions was developed to simulate the ignition of the two propanol isomers, with the computed ignition delay times agreeing well with the present measured results as well as the literature data at other conditions.
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Pressure effects on laminar burning velocities and Markstein lengths for Isooctane–Ethanol–Air mixtures

TL;DR: In this article, a new method for extracting the laminar burning velocity from the difference between the flame speed and the local fresh gas velocity at the entrance of the flame front is used for ethanol/isooctane/air mixtures.
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