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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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A kinetic study of the pyrolysis of methanol using shock tube and computer simulation techniques

TL;DR: In this paper, the reaction of methanol with oxygen is studied by shock tube techniques at 1800-2800 K in five gas mixtures ranging in composition from lean to rich.
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Chemical kinetic modeling of the supercritical-water oxidation of methanol

TL;DR: In this article, the supercritical oxidation of methanol was modeled using a detailed chemical kinetic reaction mechanism initially validated for supercritical-water oxidation of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane.
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Measurements of laminar flame speeds and flame instability analysis of 2-methyl-1-butanol-air mixtures

TL;DR: In this article, a correlation of laminar flame speed is provided on the basis of experimental data, which shows that 2-methyl-1-butanol has the close values of L 1 butanol, but lower than those of ethanol and higher than iso-octane.
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Rate constants for hydrogen abstraction by HȮ2 from n-butanol

TL;DR: In this paper, the Pitzer-Gwinn-like approximation using Fourier fits to internal rotations was applied to determine the one-dimensional hindered potentials for hydrogen-atom abstraction from n-butanol by the H 2 radical.
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