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 …

On the mechanism of soot nucleation

M Frenklach, AM Mebel - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The mechanism of carbon particulate (soot) inception has been a subject of numerous
studies and debates. The article begins with a critical review of prior proposals, proceeds to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

On the low-temperature limit of HACA

M Frenklach, RI Singh, AM Mebel - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019 - Elsevier
Rates of two mechanisms, hydrogen abstraction C 2 H 2 (carbon) addition (HACA) and C 2
H 2 (carbon) addition hydrogen migration (CAHM), were intercompared with each other at …

Reaction kinetics of hydrogen abstraction from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by H atoms

D Hou, X You - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen abstraction reactions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) by H atoms play
a very important role in both PAH and soot formation processes. However, large …

The polarization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons curved by pentagon incorporation: the role of the flexoelectric dipole

JW Martin, RI Slavchov, EKY Yapp… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Curvature in polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), due to pentagon inclusion, produces a
dipole moment that contributes significantly to self-assembly processes and adsorption at …

[HTML][HTML] A detailed kinetic model for aromatics formation from small hydrocarbon and gasoline surrogate fuel combustion

R Langer, Q Mao, H Pitsch - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
This work develops a detailed chemical kinetic model for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
(PAH) chemistry that builds on a chemical model for gasoline surrogates by Cai et al.[Proc …

Polar curved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot formation

JW Martin, K Bowal, A Menon, RI Slavchov… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the impact of polar curved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(cPAH) on the process of soot formation by employing electronic structure calculations to …