L Coniglio, H Bennadji, PA Glaude, O Herbinet… - Progress in Energy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The motivation for and challenges in reducing the world's dependence on crude oil while simultaneously improving engine performance through better fuel efficiency and reduced …
CK Westbrook, CV Naik, O Herbinet, WJ Pitz… - Combustion and …, 2011 - Elsevier
A detailed chemical kinetic reaction mechanism is developed for the five major components of soy biodiesel and rapeseed biodiesel fuels. These components, methyl stearate, methyl …
JYW Lai, KC Lin, A Violi - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Burgeoning global demand for energy has increased concerns about the fuel security issues and deleterious environmental impacts that result from the ubiquitous use of fossil fuels to …
Biodiesel is typically a mixture of long chain fatty acid methyl esters for use in compression ignition engines. Improving biofuel engine performance requires understanding its …
H Liu, M Huo, Y Liu, X Wang, H Wang, M Yao… - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
The spray, flame natural luminosity and soot quantitative measurement by fueling n-butanol and soybean biodiesel were investigated on a constant volume chamber using multi laser …
VB Oyeyemi, JA Keith, EA Carter - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Accurate bond dissociation energies (BDEs) are important for characterizing combustion chemistry, particularly the initial stages of pyrolysis. Here we contribute to evaluating the …
Growth of the biodiesel industry has motivated increased study of the combustion characteristics of its constituent molecules and building combustion modeling capability …
Unimolecular pyrolysis of isopropyl acetate (IPA) and isopropyl propanoate (IPP) esters as biodiesel surrogates has been carried out using density functional theory (DFT) at BMK/DZ …
Lower heating value (LHV) is one of the most important fuel properties of an engine in terms of fuel economy and thermal efficiency. For this reason, various prediction models have …