Tuning oxygenated functional groups on biochar for water pollution control: A critical review

L Dai, Q Lu, H Zhou, F Shen, Z Liu, W Zhu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar has attracted increasing attention in water pollution control, attributed to its various
merits, eg, tunable physico-chemical properties. The oxygenated functional groups (OFGs) …

Alcohol combustion chemistry

SM Sarathy, P Oßwald, N Hansen… - Progress in energy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Alternative transportation fuels, preferably from renewable sources, include alcohols with up
to five or even more carbon atoms. They are considered promising because they can be …

Combustion in the future: The importance of chemistry

K Kohse-Höinghaus - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Combustion involves chemical reactions that are often highly exothermic. Combustion
systems utilize the energy of chemical compounds released during this reactive process for …

Effect of n-pentanol addition on the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a direct-injection diesel engine

L Wei, CS Cheung, Z Huang - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, experiments were conducted to examine the effect of using a mixture of diesel
and n-pentanol, which is one of the second-generation biofuels with comparable properties …

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 …

Performance and exhaust emission prediction of a SI engine fueled with I-amyl alcohol-gasoline blends: an ANN coupled RSM based optimization

S Uslu, MB Celik - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, effects of i-amyl alcohol/gasoline fuel blends on spark ignition (SI) engine
performance and emissions were investigated experimentally, predicted by Artificial Neural …

Combustion chemistry of alkenes and alkadienes

CW Zhou, A Farooq, L Yang, AM Mebel - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alkenes formed, during the refining of crude oil, by cracking the heavier fractions are present
in transportation fuels in significant amounts, up to as much as 15–20% in gasoline …

Automated reaction kinetics of gas-phase organic species over multiwell potential energy surfaces

J Zádor, C Martí, R Van de Vijver… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Automation of rate-coefficient calculations for gas-phase organic species became possible
in recent years and has transformed how we explore these complicated systems …

OH roaming and beyond in the unimolecular decay of the methyl-ethyl-substituted Criegee intermediate: observations and predictions

T Liu, SN Elliott, M Zou, MF Vansco… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Alkene ozonolysis generates short-lived Criegee intermediates that are a significant source
of hydroxyl (OH) radicals. This study demonstrates that roaming of the separating OH …

Combustion and emission characteristics of isoamyl alcohol-gasoline blends in spark ignition engine

S Uslu, MB Celik - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the evaluation of waste products has gained importance. The fusel oil, which is
obtained as a waste product in sugar factories, has a high proportion of isoamyl alcohol …