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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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FTIR kinetic, product, and modeling study of the OH-initiated oxidation of 1-butanol in air

TL;DR: The results support the probable formation of 4-hydroxy-2-butanone and propanal, ethanal, and formaldehyde could also be formed in secondary reactions of some of the primary aldehydic products.
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Spectroscopic Measurements of Low-Temperature Heat Release for Homogeneous Combustion Compression Ignition (HCCI) n-Heptane/Alcohol Mixture Combustion

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the alcohol fuel fraction on the diesel homogeneous combustion compression ignition (HCCI) combustion were explained by analyzing simultaneously chemiluminescence data and cylinder pr...
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Calculation of Burning Velocity and Flame Structure in Methanol – Air Mixtures

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TL;DR: In this article, a priori calculation of laminar burning velocities of methanol-air mixtures over the composition range 8% to 20% CH3OH at 298 K and 1 bar was made.

Rate constants for hydrogen abstraction reactions by the hydroperoxyl radical from methanol, ethenol, acetaldehyde, toluene and phenol

TL;DR: In this paper, reaction rate constants for H abstraction by H02 from the weakest H bond in methanol, ethenol, acetaldehyde, toluene and phenol were derived in the simple Arrhenius form.
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