Soot inception: Carbonaceous nanoparticle formation in flames

JW Martin, M Salamanca, M Kraft - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2022 - Elsevier
The route by which gas-phase molecules in hydrocarbon flames form condensed-phase
carbonaceous nanoparticles (incipient soot) is reviewed. These products of incomplete …

A review of terminology used to describe soot formation and evolution under combustion and pyrolytic conditions

HA Michelsen, MB Colket, PE Bengtsson, A D'anna… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review presents a glossary and review of terminology used to describe the chemical
and physical processes involved in soot formation and evolution and is intended to aid in …

Formation of nascent soot and other condensed-phase materials in flames

H Wang - Proceedings of the Combustion institute, 2011 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, our understanding of soot formation has evolved from an
empirical, phenomenological description to an age of quantitative modeling for at least small …

Combustion-formed nanoparticles

A D'Anna - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009 - Elsevier
The processes by which carbonaceous nanoparticles are produced from combustion of
liquid and gaseous fuels are reviewed. The focus of the paper is on the formation and …

Combustion at the focus: laser diagnostics and control

K Kohse-Höinghaus, RS Barlow, M Aldén… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - Elsevier
Fifty years after the foundation of the Combustion Institute and almost 150 years after
Michael Faraday's famous lectures on the combustion of a candle, combustion diagnostics …

Micro-FTIR study of soot chemical composition—evidence of aliphatic hydrocarbons on nascent soot surfaces

JP Cain, PL Gassman, H Wang, A Laskin - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Previous studies suggest that soot formed in premixed flat flames can contain a substantial
amount of aliphatic compounds. Presence of these compounds may affect the kinetics of …

The evolution of soot morphology in a laminar coflow diffusion flame of a surrogate for Jet A-1

M Kholghy, M Saffaripour, C Yip, MJ Thomson - Combustion and Flame, 2013 - Elsevier
An experimental study is performed to investigate the evolution of soot morphology in an
atmospheric pressure laminar coflow diffusion flame of a three-component surrogate for Jet …

On evolution of particle size distribution functions of incipient soot in premixed ethylene–oxygen–argon flames

AD Abid, N Heinz, ED Tolmachoff, DJ Phares… - Combustion and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The evolution of the soot particle size distribution function (PSDF) and particle morphology
are studied for premixed ethylene–oxygen–argon flat flames at equivalence ratio ϕ= 2.07 …

On determining soot maturity: A review of the role of microscopy-and spectroscopy-based techniques

A Baldelli, U Trivanovic, TA Sipkens, SN Rogak - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Incomplete combustion is the main source of airborne soot, which has negative impacts on
public health and the environment. Understanding the morphological and chemical …

Comparative study of the soot formation process in a “nucleation” and a “sooting” low pressure premixed methane flame

P Desgroux, A Faccinetto, X Mercier, T Mouton… - Combustion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The soot formation process was investigated in two low pressure premixed methane flames:
a reference sooting flame with equivalence ratio 2.32 and a so called nucleation flame with …