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 …

Probing soot formation, chemical and physical evolution, and oxidation: A review of in situ diagnostic techniques and needs

HA Michelsen - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017 - Elsevier
Soot is responsible for notoriously detrimental effects on human health, air quality, and
global and regional climate. Controlling soot emissions to the atmosphere will require …

Study of the formation of soot and its precursors in flames using optical diagnostics

P Desgroux, X Mercier, KA Thomson - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2013 - Elsevier
Soot particle emission from combustion processes is a significant environmental and health
problem. Optical detection is clearly the only viable choice for in situ PAH and soot …

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 …

Laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy of aromatic species produced in atmospheric sooting flames using UV and visible excitation wavelengths

S Bejaoui, X Mercier, P Desgroux, E Therssen - Combustion and Flame, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work, laser induced fluorescence (LIF) has been applied to probe PAHs in two
atmospheric sooting flames: a premixed flat flame of methane and a Diesel turbulent spray …

Experimental and numerical study of soot formation in laminar coflow diffusion flames of gasoline/ethanol blends

A Khosousi, F Liu, SB Dworkin, NA Eaves… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reports the experimental and numerical results of soot formation in laminar
coflow diffusion flames of vaporized gasoline/ethanol blends at atmospheric pressure to …

Wavelength dependence of extinction in sooting flat premixed flames in the visible and near-infrared regimes

J Simonsson, NE Olofsson, S Török, PE Bengtsson… - Applied Physics B, 2015 - Springer
A diode-laser-based setup was used for extinction measurements at various heights in two
flat premixed sooting ethylene/air flames in order to investigate the wavelength dependence …

Optical soot characterization using two-color laser-induced incandescence (2C-LII) in the soot growth region of a premixed flat flame

H Bladh, J Johnsson, NE Olofsson, A Bohlin… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - Elsevier
The soot growth region of a premixed one-dimensional ethylene/air flame has been
investigated using two-color laser-induced incandescence (2C-LII) with focus on optical soot …

Hydrogen, sp2 Carbon Hybridization, and sp2 Clustering as Pieces of the Puzzling Nanostructure of Soot: A Closer Look

C Russo, B Apicella, A Ciajolo - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
This paper reviews recent results concerning specific structure-sensitive parameters of soot
such as the content of hydrogen and the size and shape of sp2-hybridized carbon featuring …

Investigation of optical properties of aging soot

F Migliorini, KA Thomson, GJ Smallwood - Applied Physics B, 2011 - Springer
The optical properties of soot, in particular the propensity of soot to absorb and scatter light
as a function of wavelength, are key parameters for the correct interpretation of soot optical …