Advances and challenges in laminar flame experiments and implications for combustion chemistry

FN Egolfopoulos, N Hansen, Y Ju… - Progress in Energy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The state of the art and the further challenges of combustion chemistry research in laminar
flames are reviewed. Laminar flames constitute an essential part of kinetic model …

OpenSMOKE++: An object-oriented framework for the numerical modeling of reactive systems with detailed kinetic mechanisms

A Cuoci, A Frassoldati, T Faravelli, E Ranzi - Computer Physics …, 2015 - Elsevier
OpenSMOKE++ is a general framework for numerical simulations of reacting systems with
detailed kinetic mechanisms, including thousands of chemical species and reactions. The …

Gas and propane combustion from stoves emits benzene and increases indoor air pollution

YS Kashtan, M Nicholson, C Finnegan… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exposure pathways to the carcinogen benzene are well-established from tobacco smoke, oil
and gas development, refining, gasoline pumping, and gasoline and diesel combustion …

A computational tool for the detailed kinetic modeling of laminar flames: Application to C2H4/CH4 coflow flames

A Cuoci, A Frassoldati, T Faravelli, E Ranzi - Combustion and Flame, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work a new computational framework for the modeling of multi-dimensional laminar
flames with detailed gas-phase kinetic mechanisms is presented. The proposed approach is …

The importance of accurately modelling soot and radiation coupling in laminar and laboratory-scale turbulent diffusion flames

F Liu, JL Consalvi, F Nmira - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrafine and highly light absorbing soot particles have been known to be harmful to human
health and a major climate forcer. Understanding the mechanisms of soot formation and …

Modeling soot formation in premixed flames using an extended conditional quadrature method of moments

S Salenbauch, A Cuoci, A Frassoldati, C Saggese… - Combustion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The scope of this study is the application of the recently developed univariate moment
method Extended Quadrature Method of Moments (EQMOM)(Yuan et al., 2012) to model …

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 …

Investigation on pyrolysis mechanism of guaiacol as lignin model compound at atmospheric pressure

C Liu, L Ye, W Yuan, Y Zhang, J Zou, J Yang, Y Wang… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding the pyrolysis mechanism of lignin is of great importance for improvement of
thermochemical conversion processes and upgrading of biofuels. In this work, the pyrolysis …

Excitation–emission matrix spectroscopy for analysis of chemical composition of combustion generated particulate matter

G Mahamuni, J Rutherford, J Davis… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Analysis of particulate matter (PM) is important for the assessment of human exposures to
potentially harmful agents, notably combustion-generated PM. Specifically, polycyclic …

Effects of oxygen addition to the fuel stream on the soot formation in an ethylene coflow partially premixed flame based on the orthogonal decoupling method

L Qiu, X Zhang, Y Hua, S Meng, Y Zhang, Y Qian - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, an orthogonal decoupling method based on the orthogonal design and
decoupling method was used to simulate the effects of adding oxygen (O 2) to the fuel …