Combustion chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons

H **, W Yuan, W Li, J Yang, Z Zhou, L Zhao… - Progress in Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aromatic hydrocarbons are important components of petroleum-based transportation fuels,
biomass, coal, and solid waste, etc. The reaction kinetics of aromatic hydrocarbons largely …

Unconventional excited-state dynamics in the concerted benzyl (C7H7) radical self-reaction to anthracene (C14H10)

RI Kaiser, L Zhao, W Lu, M Ahmed… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are prevalent in deep space and on Earth as
products in combustion processes bearing direct relevance to energy efficiency and …

PAH formation from jet stirred reactor pyrolysis of gasoline surrogates

C Shao, G Kukkadapu, SW Wagnon, WJ Pitz… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soot particles and their precursor polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) species, formed
during combustion, are responsible for particulate emissions in gasoline direct injection …

Modeling of two-and three-ring aromatics formation in the pyrolysis of toluene

A Matsugi, A Miyoshi - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2013 - Elsevier
A detailed chemical kinetic model for the pyrolysis of toluene and subsequent formation of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was constructed for the low pressure (∼ 10Torr) …

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 …

Understanding the low-temperature chemistry of 1, 2, 4-trimethylbenzene

S Dong, G Kukkadapu, J Liang, X Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
trimethylbenzene is an important representative aromatic component of gasoline/diesel/jet
fuels and thus it is necessary to understand its low-temperature chemistry. In this paper …

Insights into pyrolysis kinetics of xylene isomers behind reflected shock waves

W Sun, A Hamadi, FEC Ardila, S Abid, N Chaumeix… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work reports a kinetic study on the pyrolysis of three xylene isomers based on single-
pulse shock tube experiments and detailed kinetic modeling. Speciation measurements for …

Thermal decomposition of benzyl radicals: kinetics and spectroscopy in a shock tube

A Matsugi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2020 - ACS Publications
Understanding the mechanism of high-temperature reactions of aromatic hydrocarbons and
radicals is essential for the modeling of hydrocarbon growth processes in combustion …

The role of radical-radical chain-propagating pathways in the phenyl+ propargyl reaction

DE Couch, G Kukkadapu, AJ Zhang, AW Jasper… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Well-skip** radical-radical reactions can provide a chain-propagating pathway for
formation of polycyclic radicals implicated in soot inception. Here we use controlled pyrolysis …

One Collision—Two Substituents: Gas‐Phase Preparation of Xylenes under Single‐Collision Conditions

IA Medvedkov, AA Nikolayev, C He… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The fundamental reaction pathways to the simplest dialkylsubstituted aromatics—xylenes
(C6H4 (CH3) 2)—in high‐temperature combustion flames and in low‐temperature …