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 …

Soot formation in laminar flames of ethylene/ammonia

AM Bennett, P Liu, Z Li, NM Kharbatia, W Boyette… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Co-firing NH 3 with other fuels is receiving growing interest as a feasible solution to improve
its combustion and emission properties. Previous studies mainly focused on NO x emission …

On the opposing effects of methanol and ethanol addition on PAH and soot formation in ethylene counterflow diffusion flames

F Yan, L Xu, Y Wang, S Park, SM Sarathy… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
An experimental and numerical analysis of the effects of methanol and ethanol addition on
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and soot formation in non-premixed ethylene flames …

Chemical effects of hydrogen addition on soot formation in counterflow diffusion flames: Dependence on fuel type and oxidizer composition

L Xu, F Yan, Y Wang, SH Chung - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
We experimentally studied and kinetically modeled the effects of hydrogen addition on soot
formation in methane and ethylene counterflow diffusion flames (CDFs). To isolate the …

An experimental multiparameter investigation on the thermochemical structures of benchmark ethylene and propane counterflow diffusion flames and implications to …

P Jiang, M Zhou, D Wen, Y Wang - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
Counterflow diffusion flame is a canonical non-premixed flame configuration that is suitable
for studying complex combustion chemistries such as soot formation. An important objective …

Sooting characteristics of partially-premixed flames of ethanol and ethylene mixtures: Unravelling the opposing effects of ethanol addition on soot formation in non …

M Zhou, F Yan, X Zhong, L Xu, Y Wang - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Oxygenated biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel are widely used as clean fuel
additives in practical combustion devices to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and …

PAHs controlling soot nucleation in 0.101—0.811 MPa ethylene counterflow diffusion flames

K Gleason, F Carbone, A Gomez - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
On the heels of a recent study in an atmospheric pressure ethylene diffusion flame in which
the transition from parent fuel molecule to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and …

Coupled effects of carbon dioxide and water vapor addition on soot formation in ethylene diffusion flames

NM Mahmoud, F Yan, M Zhou, L Xu, Y Wang - Energy & Fuels, 2019 - ACS Publications
An experimental and numerical investigation on the effects of the addition of CO2 and H2O
on soot formation in ethylene counterflow diffusion flames was performed. Experimentally …

Characteristics of soot formation in laminar co-flow diffusion flames of n-heptane/anisole blends under preheating reactant temperature

Z Zhang, Y Wu, L Chen, X He, L Zhou - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present work, the characteristics of soot formation in laminar co-flow diffusion flames of
n-heptane doped with anisole under different preheating reactant temperatures were …

An experimental study on the spectral dependence of light extinction in sooting ethylene counterflow diffusion flames

F Yan, M Zhou, L Xu, Y Wang, SH Chung - Experimental Thermal and Fluid …, 2019 - Elsevier
A light extinction technique is widely-adopted for quantitative measurement of soot volume
fractions. The measurement accuracy is dependent on the optical properties of soot, which …