A review of terminology used to describe soot formation and evolution under combustion and pyrolytic conditions

HA Michelsen, MB Colket, PE Bengtsson, A D'anna… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review presents a glossary and review of terminology used to describe the chemical
and physical processes involved in soot formation and evolution and is intended to aid in …

Soot formation during biomass gasification: A critical review

Q He, Q Guo, K Umeki, L Ding, F Wang, G Yu - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biomass gasification is a promising technology in current and future low carbon energy
systems. Soot formation is a great technical challenge for the industrialization of biomass …

Laser-induced incandescence: Particulate diagnostics for combustion, atmospheric, and industrial applications

HA Michelsen, C Schulz, GJ Smallwood… - Progress in Energy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The understanding of soot formation in combustion processes and the optimization of
practical combustion systems require in situ measurement techniques that can provide …

Probing soot formation, chemical and physical evolution, and oxidation: A review of in situ diagnostic techniques and needs

HA Michelsen - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017 - Elsevier
Soot is responsible for notoriously detrimental effects on human health, air quality, and
global and regional climate. Controlling soot emissions to the atmosphere will require …

Effects of adding cyclohexane, n-hexane, ethanol, and 2, 5-dimethylfuran to fuel on soot formation in laminar coflow n-heptane/iso-octane diffusion flame

H Chu, Y Ya, X Nie, F Qiao, E Jiaqiang - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
The molecular structure strongly affects the fuel sooting propensity. This study aims to
investigate the effects of oxygen-free and oxygen-containing aliphatic and aromatic …

Effects of biodiesels on the physicochemical properties and oxidative reactivity of diesel particulates: A review

J Wei, Y Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Particulate emissions from the combustion of diesel have always been the main concern,
especially in recent years, with continuously stringent particulate emission regulation for …

The core–shell internal nanostructure of soot–A criterion to model soot maturity

MR Kholghy, A Veshkini, MJ Thomson - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
A novel model called Surface Shell Formation (SSF) is developed which predicts soot
maturity based on the equilibrium nanostructure of poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) …

Physicochemical properties and oxidation reactivity of exhaust soot from a modern diesel engine: Effect of oxyfuel type

J Wei, W Lu, Y Zeng, H Huang, M Pan, Y Liu - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the physicochemical properties (ie nanostructure, degree of
graphitization, surface functionalities and carbon chemical state) of soot emitted from a …

HRTEM evaluation of soot particles produced by the non-premixed combustion of liquid fuels

ML Botero, D Chen, S González-Calera, D Jefferson… - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
The morphology and nanostructure of soot particles as a function of fuel type in a laminar
diffusion flame were studied. The fuels considered were heptane, toluene, the volumetric …

On determining soot maturity: A review of the role of microscopy-and spectroscopy-based techniques

A Baldelli, U Trivanovic, TA Sipkens, SN Rogak - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Incomplete combustion is the main source of airborne soot, which has negative impacts on
public health and the environment. Understanding the morphological and chemical …