Recent progress in the development of diesel surrogate fuels

WJ Pitz, CJ Mueller - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2011 - Elsevier
There has been much recent progress in the area of surrogate fuels for diesel. In the last few
years, experiments and modeling have been performed on higher molecular weight …

Influence of functional groups on low-temperature combustion chemistry of biofuels

B Rotavera, CA Taatjes - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Ongoing progress in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and catalysis continues to
produce a diverse array of advanced biofuels with complex molecular structure and …

[HTML][HTML] Optimized chemical mechanism for combustion of gasoline surrogate fuels

L Cai, H Pitsch - Combustion and flame, 2015 - Elsevier
Since real petroleum fuels are composed of a huge variety of hydrocarbon components,
surrogate mixtures of various hydrocarbon fuels are typically employed in computational …

Optimized reaction mechanism rate rules for ignition of normal alkanes

L Cai, H Pitsch, SY Mohamed, V Raman, J Bugler… - Combustion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for cleaner combustion and reduced greenhouse gas emissions
motivates research on the combustion of hydrocarbon fuels and their surrogates. Accurate …

Experimental and kinetic modeling study on methylcyclohexane pyrolysis and combustion

Z Wang, L Ye, W Yuan, L Zhang, Y Wang, Z Cheng… - Combustion and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Methylcyclohexane is the simplest alkylated cyclohexane, and has been broadly used as the
representative cycloalkane component in fuel surrogates. Understanding its combustion …

A new methodology for diesel surrogate fuel formulation: Bridging fuel fundamental properties and real engine combustion characteristics

Y Qian, L Yu, Z Li, Y Zhang, L Xu, Q Zhou, D Han, X Lu - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Given the complexity and uncertainty of diesel compositions, it is of great challenges to study
the fundamental combustion processes and mechanism of diesel fuel, in particular the …

Mechanism optimization based on reaction rate rules

L Cai, H Pitsch - Combustion and flame, 2014 - Elsevier
Accurate chemistry models form the backbone of detailed computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) tools used for simulating complex combustion devices. Combustion chemistry is often …

Rate constants for OH with selected large alkanes: shock-tube measurements and an improved group scheme

R Sivaramakrishnan, JV Michael - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
High-temperature rate constant experiments on OH with the five large (C5− C8) saturated
hydrocarbons n-heptane, 2, 2, 3, 3-tetramethylbutane (2, 2, 3, 3-TMB), n-pentane, n-hexane …

A review on Shock tubes with multitudinous applications

GS Balan, SA Raj - International journal of impact engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Shock tubes simulate jet aerodynamics and investigate the behavior of high-temperature
materials, which has significantly evolved since 1899. This article examines the changes in …

Experiments and modeling of the autoignition of methylcyclohexane at high pressure

BW Weber, WJ Pitz, M Mehl, EJ Silke, AC Davis… - Combustion and …, 2014 - Elsevier
New experimental data are collected for methyl-cyclohexane (MCH) autoignition in a heated
rapid compression machine (RCM). Three mixtures of MCH/O 2/N 2/Ar at equivalence ratios …