Currently, the development of alternative and green energy sources has been being strongly
pushed aiming to recoup the lack of fossil energy, to meet the ever-increasing demand of …

Transportation of people and goods largely relies on the use of fossil hydrocarbons,
contributing to global warming and problems with local air quality. There are a number of …

Methanol is a widely used engine fuel, blend component, and additive. However, no
systematic auto-ignition data or laminar flame speed measurements are available for kinetic …

This paper discusses a brief history of chemical kinetic modeling, with some emphasis on
the development of chemical kinetic mechanisms describing fuel oxidation. At high …

As a carbon-free fuel, ammonia is considered as an attractive alternative fuel for internal
combustion engines. However, ammonia has the problems of high ignition temperature and …

This work presents an updated experimental and kinetic modeling study of n-heptane
oxidation. In the experiments, ignition delay times of stoichiometric n-heptane/air mixtures …

Rapid compression machines (RCMs) are widely used to acquire experimental insights into
fuel autoignition and pollutant formation chemistry, especially at conditions relevant to …

We present an update of the open-source photochemical kinetics code VULCAN to include
C–H–N–O–S networks and photochemistry. The additional new features are advection …

A rapid compression machine (RCM) has been applied to measure the ignition delay times
of NH 3/CH 3 OH mixtures covering pressures of 20 and 40 bar, equivalence ratios of 0.5 …

There is an increasing demand for kinetic models of surrogate components to predict the
combustion and emissions of real fuels. In this paper, a new surrogate fuel mechanism …