Microbial production of advanced biofuels

J Keasling, H Garcia Martin, TS Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

Soot inception: Carbonaceous nanoparticle formation in flames

JW Martin, M Salamanca, M Kraft - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2022 - Elsevier
The route by which gas-phase molecules in hydrocarbon flames form condensed-phase
carbonaceous nanoparticles (incipient soot) is reviewed. These products of incomplete …

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 …

What fuel properties enable higher thermal efficiency in spark-ignited engines?

JP Szybist, S Busch, RL McCormick, JA Pihl… - Progress in Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative from the US
Department of Energy aims to co-develop fuels and engines in an effort to maximize energy …

Prediction of organic homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies at near chemical accuracy with sub-second computational cost

PC St. John, Y Guan, Y Kim, S Kim, RS Paton - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Bond dissociation enthalpies (BDEs) of organic molecules play a fundamental role in
determining chemical reactivity and selectivity. However, BDE computations at sufficiently …

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 …

Effects of oxygenated biofuel additives on soot formation: A comprehensive review of laboratory-scale studies

L Xu, Y Wang, D Liu - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxygenated fuels have been widely used in combustion engines to tailor fuel properties,
improve combustion performance and reduce harmful emissions such as soot particles …

[HTML][HTML] Message-passing neural networks for high-throughput polymer screening

PC St John, C Phillips, TW Kemper… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Machine learning methods have shown promise in predicting molecular properties, and
given sufficient training data, machine learning approaches can enable rapid high …

Enhancing effect of microalgae biodiesel incorporation on the performance of crumb Rubber/SBS modified asphalt

S Duan, Y Muhammad, J Li, S Maria, F Meng… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, microalgae biodiesel (MB) was prepared by chemically modifying microalgae
acidified oil, which was in turn added as a modifier to a pre-synthesized crumb rubber …

Machine learning-quantitative structure property relationship (ML-QSPR) method for fuel physicochemical properties prediction of multiple fuel types

R Li, JM Herreros, A Tsolakis, W Yang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
A machine learning-quantitative structure property relationship (ML-QSPR) method is
proposed to predict 15 fuel physicochemical properties of 23 fuel types. QSPR-UOB 3.0 …