Oxygenated fuels have been widely used in combustion engines to tailor fuel properties,
improve combustion performance and reduce harmful emissions such as soot particles …

Soot (sometimes referred to as black carbon) is produced when hydrocarbon fuels are
burned. Our hypothesis is that polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules are the …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the main precursors to soot particles in combustion
systems. A lack of direct experimental evidence has led to controversial theoretical …

We used aerosol mass spectrometry coupled with tunable synchrotron photoionization to
measure radical and closed-shell species associated with particle formation in premixed …

A large number of PAH molecules is collected from recent literature. The HOMO-LUMO gap
value of PAHs was computed at the level of B3LYP/6-311+ G (d, p). The gap values lie in the …

Oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (OPAH) have received increasing attention
due to their toxic effect on human health. This study comprehensively investigates the …

Soot formation of n-heptane is experimentally and numerically studied in low-strain rate (K=
50 s− 1) counterflow soot formation (SF) flames. Flame temperatures and soot volume …

Significant elemental carbon (EC) emissions from low-temperature solid fuel combustion
cannot be explained by classical mechanisms ascribing EC to higher-temperature …

The growth of carbonaceous materials was studied using a Kinetic Monte Carlo model that
captures the growth and oxidation of six-member and partially-embedded five-member …

Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is an effective technique for non-intrusive and on-line
measurement of PAHs in sooting flames but it is still need further investigation due to the …