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 …

Quantity of flowback and produced waters from unconventional oil and gas exploration

AJ Kondash, E Albright, A Vengosh - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
The management and disposal of flowback and produced waters (FP water) is one of the
greatest challenges associated with unconventional oil and gas development. The …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular-based asphalt oxidation reaction mechanism and aging resistance optimization strategies based on quantum chemistry

S Liu, L Shan, G Li, BS Underwood, C Qi - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the oxidation reaction mechanism of asphalt is critical to improving its aging
resistance. Here, quantum chemistry (QC) was used to study the oxidation reaction …

Detailed, sterically-resolved modeling of soot oxidation: Role of O atoms, interplay with particle nanostructure, and emergence of inner particle burning

M Frenklach, Z Liu, RI Singh, GR Galimova… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
A newly-developed detailed mechanism of soot oxidation was tested against experimental
observations. The computations were performed at an atomistic level and with a detailed …

Oxidation of graphene-edge six-and five-member rings by molecular oxygen

RI Singh, AM Mebel, M Frenklach - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
To gain qualitative and quantitative understanding of oxidation processes of large polycyclic
aromatics, soot particles, and graphene edges, a theoretical study is reported for the pyrenyl …

New form for reduced modeling of soot oxidation: Accounting for multi-site kinetics and surface reactivity

M Frenklach - Combustion and Flame, 2019 - Elsevier
New formulation is introduced to model surface oxidation of soot particles. In the new
development, the surface is represented by an arbitrary number of reactive sites and their …

A mechanistic study of the influence of graphene curvature on the rate of high-temperature oxidation by molecular oxygen

R Singh, M Frenklach - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) simulations of the evolution of a graphene sheet in
combustion-like environments were performed using a set of newly established elementary …

Pathways to soot oxidation: reaction of OH with phenanthrene radicals

DE Edwards, DY Zubarev, WA Lester Jr… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Energetics and kinetics of the oxidation of possible soot surface sites by hydroxyl radicals
were investigated theoretically. Energetics were calculated by employing density functional …

Rate coefficients and product branching ratios for the oxidation of phenyl and naphthyl radicals: A theoretical RRKM-ME study

VV Kislov, RI Singh, DE Edwards, AM Mebel… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Theoretical VRC-TST/RRKM-ME calculations were performed to evaluate total rate
coefficients and product branching ratios for the oxidation of phenyl and 1-and 2-naphthyl …

Why soot is not alike soot: A molecular/nanostructural approach to low temperature soot oxidation

F Hagen, F Hardock, S Koch, N Sebbar… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2021 - Springer
Due to worldwide increasingly sharpened emission regulations, the development of
Gasoline Direct Injection and Diesel Direct Injection engines not only aims at the reduction …