Alcohol combustion chemistry

SM Sarathy, P Oßwald, N Hansen… - Progress in energy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Alternative transportation fuels, preferably from renewable sources, include alcohols with up
to five or even more carbon atoms. They are considered promising because they can be …

Theoretical chemical kinetics in tropospheric chemistry: methodologies and applications

L Vereecken, DR Glowacki, MJ Pilling - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Chemical kinetics is central in much of tropospheric chemistry and in modeling tropospheric
chemical processes. Chemical reaction rate coefficients and product yields have traditionally …

Automated discovery of reaction pathways, rate constants, and transition states using reactive molecular dynamics simulations

M Döntgen, MD Przybylski-Freund… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We provide a methodology for deducing quantitative reaction models from reactive
molecular dynamics simulations by identifying, quantifying, and evaluating elementary …

Relative reactivity of oxygenated fuels: alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and methyl esters

M Pelucchi, C Cavallotti, E Ranzi, A Frassoldati… - Energy & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This work aims at comparing and highlighting the main reaction pathways characterizing the
combustion behavior of oxygenated fuels. Ethanol and heavier alcohols are already viable …

Perspective on mechanism development and structure‐activity relationships for gas‐phase atmospheric chemistry

L Vereecken, B Aumont, I Barnes… - … journal of chemical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This perspective gives our views on general aspects and future directions of gas‐phase
atmospheric chemical kinetic mechanism development, emphasizing on the work needed …

Oxygenated PAH formation chemistry investigation in anisole jet stirred reactor oxidation by a thermodynamic approach

B Chen, S Kruse, R Schmid, L Cai, N Hansen… - Energy & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Oxygenated poly aromatic hydrocarbons (OPAH) are widely produced in biomass
combustion. Recent studies suggest significantly higher toxicity for OPAH in comparison to …

Challenges and opportunities for molecule-based management of chemical processes

R Van de Vijver, BR Devocht, KM Van Geem… - Current Opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Automatic kinetic model generation.•The need of accurate kinetic data.•On-the-fly
property calculations.•Integrated software tool for in silico process design within reach.•Big …

Theoretical and experimental study of 3-pentanol autoignition: Ab initio calculation, shock tube experiments, and kinetic modeling

Y Feng, J Zhu, S Wang, L Yu, Z He… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
3-Pentanol is a potential alternative fuel or a green fuel additive for modern engines. The H-
abstraction reactions from 3-pentanol by H, CH3, HO2, and OH radicals are significant in the …

The influence of thermochemistry on the reactivity of propane, the pentane isomers and n-heptane in the low temperature regime

MK Ghosh, S Panigrahy, S Dong, SN Elliott… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence of thermochemistry on the reactivity of fuels at low temperatures (600–1000 K)
is studied here. Specifically, the effect of different sets of thermochemistry on chemical model …

Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics+ metadynamics study of high-temperature methanol oxidation reactions using generic collective variables

S Zheng, J Pfaendtner - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014 - ACS Publications
We used Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) and metadynamics in conjunction with
the recently introduced social permutation invariant collective coordinates to study the …