Soot formation in laminar counterflow flames

Y Wang, SH Chung - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Many practical soot-emitting combustion systems such as diesel and jet engines rely on
diffusion flames for efficient and reliable operation. Efforts to mitigate soot emissions from …

Synthesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by phenyl addition–dehydrocyclization: The third way

L Zhao, MB Prendergast, RI Kaiser, B Xu… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent the link between resonance‐stabilized
free radicals and carbonaceous nanoparticles generated in incomplete combustion …

Gas and propane combustion from stoves emits benzene and increases indoor air pollution

YS Kashtan, M Nicholson, C Finnegan… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exposure pathways to the carcinogen benzene are well-established from tobacco smoke, oil
and gas development, refining, gasoline pum**, and gasoline and diesel combustion …

Combustion in the future: The importance of chemistry

K Kohse-Höinghaus - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Combustion involves chemical reactions that are often highly exothermic. Combustion
systems utilize the energy of chemical compounds released during this reactive process for …

Composition, emissions, and air quality impacts of hazardous air pollutants in unburned natural gas from residential stoves in California

ED Lebel, DR Michanowicz, KR Bilsback… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The presence of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) entrained in end-use natural gas (NG) is
an understudied source of human health risks. We performed trace gas analyses on 185 …

A chemical kinetic modeling study of indene pyrolysis

H **, L **ng, J Hao, J Yang, Y Zhang, CC Cao… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
An improved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) model is developed to predict the
decomposition of indene and the formation of large PAHs under pyrolytic conditions. This …

H2 impact on combustion kinetics, soot formation, and NOx emission of hydrocarbon fuel flames

MZ Akram, F Ma, M Aziz, Y Deng, H Wu - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Soot and carbon dioxide released from internal combustion engines became the key issues
when using fossil fuels. The use of zero-carbon fuel, hydrogen, with hydrocarbon fuels can …

Inception of carbonaceous nanostructures via hydrogen-abstraction phenylacetylene-addition mechanism

H **, L Ye, J Yang, Y Jiang, L Zhao… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sufficient experimental evidence has suggested that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are
the building blocks of carbonaceous nanostructures in combustion and circumstellar …

C7 reaction mechanism and its self-imitation in the kinetic modeling of PAH formation

H **, A Farooq - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), serving as critical soot precursors, are formed via
complicated chemical processes, such as the first aromatic ring formation and the aromatic …

Soot reduction effects of dibutyl ether (DBE) addition to a biodiesel surrogate in laminar coflow diffusion flames

Z Gao, L Zhu, X Zou, C Liu, B Tian, Z Huang - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
The dibutyl ether (DBE) has been recently identified as an alternative biofuel produced from
lignocellulosic biomass. In the present study, experimental and chemical kinetics studies …