Flame stabilization and emission characteristics of ammonia combustion in lab-scale gas turbine combustors: Recent progress and prospects

M Zhang, X Wei, Z An, EC Okafor, TF Guiberti… - Progress in Energy and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Global climate change forces all countries to push the process of de-carbonization.
Ammonia, which is carbon free and a potential hydrogen carrier, is proposed as a …

Flames with plasmas

DA Lacoste - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-equilibrium plasma discharges can create a favorable environment for combustion
processes, at low energy cost.“How favorable?” and “How low?” are two open questions that …

Nanosecond pulsed plasma assisted combustion of ammonia-air mixtures: Effects on ignition delays and NOx emission

TS Taneja, PN Johnson, S Yang - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
Computational investigation of plasma assisted combustion of ammonia-air mixtures in
constant volume and constant pressure reactors are conducted, to determine the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Ammonia as a sustainable fuel: Review and novel strategies

Q Cheng, A Muhammad, O Kaario, Z Ahmad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Ammonia is increasingly recognized as a viable alternative fuel that could significantly
reduce greenhouse gas emissions without requiring major modifications to existing engine …

[HTML][HTML] On nanosecond plasma-assisted ammonia combustion: Effects of pulse and mixture properties

M Shahsavari, AA Konnov, A Valera-Medina… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the effects of nanosecond plasma discharges on the combustion characteristics
of ammonia are investigated over a wide range of mixture properties and plasma settings …

Modeling of the effects of non-equilibrium excitation and electrode geometry on H2/air ignition in a nanosecond plasma discharge

X Mao, H Zhong, T Zhang, A Starikovskiy, Y Ju - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents the results of two-dimensional modeling of the effects of non-equilibrium
excitation and electrode geometry on H 2/air ignition in a nanosecond plasma discharge. A …

A phenomenological model for plasma-assisted combustion with NRP discharges in methane-air mixtures: PACMIND

N Barléon, L Cheng, B Cuenot, O Vermorel - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent advances in plasma-assisted combustion must now be strengthened through
high-fidelity numerical simulations. However, detailed plasma-combustion coupled …

Numerical modeling of ignition enhancement of CH4/O2/He mixtures using a hybrid repetitive nanosecond and DC discharge

X Mao, A Rousso, Q Chen, Y Ju - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019 - Elsevier
Ignition enhancement using a hybrid repetitive nanosecond and DC discharge is studied in
CH 4/O 2/He mixtures at atmospheric pressure by using a hybrid ZDPlasKin-CHEMKIN …

Non-equilibrium plasma for ignition and combustion enhancement

S Starikovskaia, DA Lacoste, G Colonna - The European Physical Journal …, 2021 - Springer
This review is intended to give an overview of recent results on plasma-assisted ignition and
combustion. The influence of electrical discharges on combustion processes is introduced …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic effects of nanosecond plasma discharge and hydrogen on ammonia combustion

M Shahsavari, AA Konnov, XS Bai, A Valera-Medina… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Synergistic effects of nanosecond plasma discharge and hydrogen on the combustion
characteristics of ammonia/air are numerically studied under conditions relevant to gas …