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 …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of methods to characterize the mass, size, and morphology of soot

TA Sipkens, A Boies, JC Corbin, RK Chakrabarty… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combustion and other high-temperature processes can produce solid aerosol nanoparticles
with complex morphologies, including fractal-like aggregates of primary particles …

Soot optical properties determined by analyzing extinction spectra in the visible near-UV: Toward an optical speciation according to constituents and structure

A Bescond, J Yon, FX Ouf, C Rozé, A Coppalle… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2016 - Elsevier
To improve the optical diagnostics of soot particles and gain an increased comprehension of
the soot formation and aging mechanisms requires a better understanding of the soot …

Automated determination of aggregate primary particle size distribution by TEM image analysis: application to soot

A Bescond, J Yon, FX Ouf, D Ferry… - Aerosol Science and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In many applications, nanoparticles appear to be in an aggregated form. Thus, a complete
description of their morphology involves an analysis of their size at different scales, from the …

On the radiative properties of soot aggregates part 1: Necking and overlapping

J Yon, A Bescond, F Liu - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is a strong interest in accurately modelling the radiative properties of soot aggregates
(also known as black carbon particles) emitted from combustion systems and fires to gain …

Effects of multiple scattering on radiative properties of soot fractal aggregates

J Yon, F Liu, A Bescond, C Caumont-Prim… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2014 - Elsevier
The in situ optical characterization of smokes composed of soot particles relies on light
extinction, angular static light scattering (SLS), or laser induced incandescence (LII). These …

A simple semi-empirical model for effective density measurements of fractal aggregates

J Yon, A Bescond, FX Ouf - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Effective density measurements are used extensively to convert submicron particle sizes
based on a particle׳ s mobility diameter into mass. Measurements of the effective density …

In-situ laser diagnostics to characterize Iridium nanoparticles synthesized in a flame by the Reactive Spray Deposition Technology

EK Stefanidis, Z Zeng, S Bliznakov, LJ Bonville… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2025 - Elsevier
In-situ laser diagnostics are used extensively to measure sizes, volume fraction, and
morphology of soot in flames as well as flame temperature, and gas composition, but their …

Monte Carlo Aggregation Code (MCAC) Part 2: Application to soot agglomeration, highlighting the importance of primary particles

J Morán, J Yon, A Poux, F Corbin, FX Ouf… - Journal of colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
During the agglomeration of nanoparticles and in particular, soot, a change in both the flow
regime (from free molecular to near continuum) as well as the change of agglomeration …

Multi-scale soot formation simulation providing detailed particle morphology in a laminar coflow diffusion flame

J Morán, A Poux, F Cepeda, F Escudero, A Fuentes… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The macroscopic simulation of soot production in flames by CFD approaches often assumes
of spherical particles or considers ad-hoc formulas in order to take the particle fractal …