Oxygenated fuels have been widely used in combustion engines to tailor fuel properties,
improve combustion performance and reduce harmful emissions such as soot particles …

Future fuels for compression ignition engines will be required both to reduce the
anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions from fossil sources and to contribute to the …

This study presents the experimental procedure and results of highly controlled pool fire
tests, in a quiescent environment, designed to accurately measure the fuel burning rate and …

Soot is one of the main pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels,
which poses a serious threat to human health and the urban environment. Alcohols have …

The pyrolysis of acetylene-methanol, acetylene-ethanol, acetylene-isopropanol and
acetylene-n-butanol mixtures has been studied in a flow reactor in the 975–1475 K …

The outlet stream from combustion processes is a complex mixture of compounds which
depends on the specific operating conditions. Thermochemical processes operating under …

2, 5-Dimethylfuran (2, 5-DMF) and 2-methylfuran (2-MF) are furan derivatives that are shown
to be able to reduce soot emissions from diesel engines. However, their capacity to form …

Oxygenated compounds have gained interest in the last few years because they represent
an attractive alternative as additive to diesel fuel for reducing soot emissions. Although …

The effect of different inlet hydrocarbon concentrations (10,000, 20,000 and 30,000 ppmv)
and reaction temperatures (873–1323 K) on PAH and soot formation from acetylene …

A study of the pyrolysis of methane mixtures in a laboratory reactor, exploring the influence
of the bath gas used (N2 and CO2) and the presence of small amounts of ethane to simulate …