Combustion is a reactive oxidation process that releases energy bound in chemical
compounds used as fuels─ energy that is needed for power generation, transportation …

Meeting the demands of sustainable energy economy requires diagnostics of the chemical
processes surrounding future fuels and contemporary combustion applications. Pioneered …

A novel matrix burner enabled the investigation of aerosol-doped laminar low-pressure
flames. Iron nitrate dissolved in 1-butanol was used as a typical model system, also found in …

A detailed investigation of the process of soot formation in ethylene-fueled laminar
counterflow diffusion flames is conducted using dedicated experiments and numerical …

Flame spray pyrolysis is intensively developing as a promising method of nanoparticle
synthesis. The experimentally measured chemical and thermal structure of the spray flame is …

In spray-flame synthesis of nanoparticles, a precise understanding of the reaction processes
is necessary to find optimal process parameters for the formation of the desired products …

Quantitative speciation data for alternative fuels is highly desired to assess their emission
potential and to develop and validate chemical kinetic models. In terms of substitute choices …

The focus of this work is on counter-flow diffusion flames of C 2 H 4/air near the sooting limit
(f V< 500 ppb) to shed light on the transition of precursor molecules to primary soot particles …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are formed in fuel-rich and sooting hydrocarbon
flames. These compounds and smaller aromatic flame constituents, such as benzene …

The emphasis of this work is on the development of an intrusive particle sampling system to
track the evolution of soot nanoparticles in ethylene counterflow diffusion flames. The …