Progress of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) as biofuel in gasoline and diesel engine: A review

I Veza, MFM Said, ZA Latiff - Fuel Processing Technology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The properties of butanol offer more promising results compared to those of lower chain
alcohol such as methanol or ethanol. However, butanol as a biofuel has not yet been …

A comprehensive review on ecological approaches of waste to wealth strategies for production of sustainable biobutanol and its suitability in automotive applications

C Karthick, K Nanthagopal - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Biobutanol has been emerging as a sustainable biofuel due to its superior form of heat
content, sustainable volatility, better anti corrosive nature and more importantly low moisture …

Modeling soot formation in flames and reactors: Recent progress and current challenges

MJ Thomson - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The study of soot has long been motivated by its adverse impacts on health and the
environment. However, this combustion knowledge is also relevant to the production of …

Effects of oxygenated biofuel additives on soot formation: A comprehensive review of laboratory-scale studies

L Xu, Y Wang, D Liu - Fuel, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Oxygenated fuels have been widely used in combustion engines to tailor fuel properties,
improve combustion performance and reduce harmful emissions such as soot particles …

Experimental and numerical study on the effect of oxymethylene ether-3 (OME3) on soot particle formation

F Ferraro, C Russo, R Schmitz, C Hasse, M Sirignano - Fuel, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The reduction and control of particulate matter generated by fossil fuel combustion are
among the main issues for actual and future combustion devices due to the increasingly …

Hydrogen, sp2 Carbon Hybridization, and sp2 Clustering as Pieces of the Puzzling Nanostructure of Soot: A Closer Look

C Russo, B Apicella, A Ciajolo - Energy & Fuels, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
This paper reviews recent results concerning specific structure-sensitive parameters of soot
such as the content of hydrogen and the size and shape of sp2-hybridized carbon featuring …

Combustion and emissions of isomeric butanol/gasoline surrogates blends on an optical GDI engine

D Han, Y Fan, Z Sun, M Nour, X Li - Fuel, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The combination of distinctive physicochemical properties of biofuels and recent engine
technologies offer benefits in terms of efficiency improvement and emissions reduction. The …

Fluorescent carbon dots synthesis in premixed flames: Influence of the equivalence ratio

C Russo, B Apicella, A La Rocca, M Sirignano - Carbon, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Flame synthesis could represent a controllable method for production of carbon dots (CDs)
with tunable emission properties, alternative to process involving oxidation agents and wet …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of the impact of oxygenated biofuel additives on soot emissions in laboratory scale

Z Zhang, J Hu, D Zhang, G Jia, B Zhang, S Wang… - Fuel Processing …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Soot has harmful effects on the environment and human health. The formation process of
soot includes six steps: fuel pyrolysis, soot nucleation, coalescence, surface growth …

Optical band gap analysis of soot and organic carbon in premixed ethylene flames: comparison of in-situ and ex-situ absorption measurements

C Russo, B Apicella, A Tregrossi, A Ciajolo, KC Le… - Carbon, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The similarity of in-situ and ex-situ absorption/extinction properties was found by comparing
data sets obtained in premixed flat ethylene flames (C/O= 0.77); both ex-situ absorption …