Cleaner Combustion

This book describes the reactive chemistry of minor pollutants within extensively validated detailed mechanisms for traditional fuels, and also for innovative surrogates, describing the complex chemistry of new, environmentally important bio-fuels.

1. Introduction, - PART I. - 2. Modeling combustion with detailed kinetic mechanisms. - 3. Automatic generation of detailed mechanisms. - 4. Specificities related to detailed kinetic models for the combustion of oxygenated fuel components. - 5. Multistep kinetic model of biomass pyrolysis. - PART II. - 6. Speciation in shock tubes. - 7. Rapid compression machines. - 8. Jet-stirred reactors. - 9. Tubular flow reactors. - 10. Flame studies of oxygenated hydrocarbons. - PART III. - 11. Formation and characterization of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. - 12. Laser diagnostics for selective and quantitative measurement of PAHs and soot. - 13. Characterization of soot . - 14. An Advanced Multi-Sectional Method for Particulate Matter Modeling in Flames. - 15. Modelling soot formation: model of particle formation. - PART IV. - 16. Investigation and improvement of reaction mechanisms using sensitivity analysis and optimization. - 17. Mechanism reduction to skeletal form and species lumping. - 18. Time Scale Splitting Based Mechanism Reduction. - 19. Storage of chemical kinetic information. - PART V. - 20. Calculation of molecular thermochemical data and their availability in databases. - 21. Statistical rate theory in combustion: An operational approach. - 22. Primary products and branching ratios for combustion multi-channel bimolecular reactions from crossed molecular beam studies. - 23. Kinetic studies of elementary chemical steps with relevance in combustion and environmental chemistry. - 24. Shock-tube studies of combustion-relevant elementary chemical steps and sub-Mechanisms.