Exploiting biomass energy is a promising option to reduce CO 2 emissions, owing to its
renewability and carbon neutrality. The knowledge of biomass ignition becomes critical for …

Completely automated mechanism generation of detailed kinetic models is within reach in
the coming decade. The recent developments in this field of chemical reaction engineering …

Real distillate fuels usually contain thousands of hydrocarbon components. Over a wide
range of combustion conditions, large hydrocarbon molecules undergo thermal …

The kinetic modeling of the pyrolysis and combustion of liquid transportation fuels is a very
complex task for two different reasons: the challenging characterization of the complex …

OpenSMOKE++ is a general framework for numerical simulations of reacting systems with
detailed kinetic mechanisms, including thousands of chemical species and reactions. The …

Combustion involves chemical reactions that are often highly exothermic. Combustion
systems utilize the energy of chemical compounds released during this reactive process for …

Ammonia/hydrogen mixtures are among the most promising solutions to decarbonize the
transportation and energy sector. The implementation of these alternative energy carriers in …

The use of simplifying techniques to obtain skeletal kinetic mechanisms with the required
accuracy is often a necessary step when computationally demanding simulations are …

Internal combustion engines running on liquid fuels will remain the dominant prime movers
for road and air transportation for decades, probably for most of this century. The world's …

Abstract A Hybrid Chemistry (HyChem) approach has been recently developed for the
modeling of real fuels; it incorporates a basic understanding about the combustion chemistry …