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 …

A review of the effects of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor addition on soot formation in hydrocarbon flames

Y Wang, M Gu, Y Zhu, L Cao, B Zhu, J Wu, Y Lin… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Addition of reactive or inert substances is one of the most effective and practical ways to
control soot formation in combustion of hydrocarbon fuels. In this paper, the research …

Application of an enhanced PAH growth model to soot formation in a laminar coflow ethylene/air diffusion flame

SB Dworkin, Q Zhang, MJ Thomson… - Combustion and …, 2011 - Elsevier
A recently developed chemical kinetic scheme for C2 fuel combustion with PAH growth has
been implemented in a parallelized coflow flame solver. The reaction mechanism has been …

Challenges for turbulent combustion

AR Masri - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Turbulent combustion will remain central to the next generation of combustion devices that
are likely to employ blends of renewable and fossil fuels, transitioning eventually to …

Soot modeling of counterflow diffusion flames of ethylene-based binary mixture fuels

Y Wang, A Raj, SH Chung - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
A soot model was developed based on the recently proposed PAH growth mechanism for C
1–C 4 gaseous fuels (KAUST PAH Mechanism 2, KM2) that included molecular growth up to …

Combustion, performance, regulated and unregulated emissions of a diesel engine with hydrogen addition

JH Zhou, CS Cheung, CW Leung - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation was conducted on the combustion, performance, regulated
and unregulated emissions of a diesel engine with naturally aspirated hydrogen at the …

Effects of ammonia and hydrogen on the sooting characteristics of laminar coflow flames of ethylene and methane

SA Steinmetz, HA Ahmed, WR Boyette, MJ Dunn… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrogen and its derivatives, including ammonia, are gaining increasing attention as carbon-
neutral fuel alternatives. An intermediate step in the transition to hydrogen and ammonia is …

Effects of simultaneous hydrogen enrichment and carbon dioxide dilution of fuel on soot formation in an axisymmetric coflow laminar ethylene/air diffusion flame

M Gu, H Chu, F Liu - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Effects of simultaneous hydrogen enrichment and carbon dioxide dilution to
hydrocarbon fuels on soot formation are of fundamental and practical interest. Previous …

Experimental investigation and detailed modeling of soot aggregate formation and size distribution in laminar coflow diffusion flames of Jet A-1, a synthetic kerosene …

M Saffaripour, A Veshkini, M Kholghy… - Combustion and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A fully-coupled soot formation model is developed to predict the concentration, size, and
aggregate structure of soot particles in the atmospheric pressure laminar coflow diffusion …

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 …