Combustion chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons

H Jin, W Yuan, W Li, J Yang, Z Zhou, L Zhao… - Progress in Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aromatic hydrocarbons are important components of petroleum-based transportation fuels,
biomass, coal, and solid waste, etc. The reaction kinetics of aromatic hydrocarbons largely …

Combustion chemistry of alkenes and alkadienes

CW Zhou, A Farooq, L Yang, AM Mebel - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alkenes formed, during the refining of crude oil, by cracking the heavier fractions are present
in transportation fuels in significant amounts, up to as much as 15–20% in gasoline …

Detection of two interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons via spectral matched filtering

BA McGuire, RA Loomis, AM Burkhardt, KLK Lee… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Unidentified infrared emission bands are ubiquitous in many astronomical sources. These
bands are widely, if not unanimously, attributed to collective emissions from polycyclic …

Formation mechanisms of naphthalene and indene: From the interstellar medium to combustion flames

AM Mebel, A Landera, RI Kaiser - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The article addresses the formation mechanisms of naphthalene and indene, which
represent prototype polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) carrying two six-membered and …

Reaction dynamics in astrochemistry: Low-temperature pathways to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the interstellar medium

RI Kaiser, DSN Parker, AM Mebel - Annual Review of Physical …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Bimolecular reactions of phenyl-type radicals with the C4 and C5 hydrocarbons
vinylacetylene and (methyl-substituted) 1, 3-butadiene have been found to synthesize …

Pressure-dependent rate constants for PAH growth: formation of indene and its conversion to naphthalene

AM Mebel, Y Georgievskii, AW Jasper… - Faraday …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Unraveling the mechanisms for growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) requires
accurate temperature-and pressure-dependent rate coefficients for a great variety of feasible …

On the formation of nitrogen-substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs) in circumstellar and interstellar environments

DSN Parker, RI Kaiser - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemical evolution of extraterrestrial environments leads to the formation of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) via gas phase radical mediated aromatization reactions. We …

Kinetic modeling study of benzene and PAH formation in laminar methane flames

H Jin, A Frassoldati, Y Wang, X Zhang, M Zeng… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Methane is probably the most frequently studied hydrocarbon fuel. Both its oxidation
mechanism and its pyrolysis to higher-mass products have received considerable attention …

Effect of acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE)–gasoline blends on regulated and unregulated emissions in spark-ignition engine

Y Li, Z Ning, FL Chia-fon, J Yan, TH Lee - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
An experimental study was conducted in a port-fuel injection (PFI) spark-ignition (SI) engine
fueled with acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) and gasoline. 30 vol% ABE blends with different …

Toward the oxidation of the phenyl radical and prevention of PAH formation in combustion systems

DSN Parker, RI Kaiser, TP Troy, O Kostko… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The reaction of the phenyl radical (C6H5) with molecular oxygen (O2) plays a central role in
the degradation of poly-and monocyclic aromatic radicals in combustion systems which …