Browsing School of Chemistry by Author "Burke, Ultan"
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A comprehensive experimental and simulation study of ignition delay time characteristics of single fuel C1–C2 hydrocarbons over a wide range of temperatures, pressures, equivalence ratios, and dilutions
Baigmohammadi, Mohammadreza; Patel, Vaibhav; Martinez, Sergio; Panigrahy, Snehasish; Ramalingam, Ajoy; Burke, Ultan; Somers, Kieran P.; Heufer, Karl A.; Pekalski, Andrzej; Curran, Henry J. (American Chemical Society, 2020-02-03)A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of the ignition delay time (IDT) characteristics of some single prominent C1–C2 hydrocarbons including methane, ethane, and ethylene has been performed over a wide range of ... -
Comprehensive experimental and simulation study of the ignition delay time characteristics of binary blended methane, ethane, and ethylene over a wide range of temperature, pressure, equivalence ratio, and dilution
Baigmohammadi, Mohammadreza; Patel, Vaibhav; Nagaraja, Shashank; Ramalingam, Ajoy; Martinez, Sergio; Panigrahy, Snehasish; Mohamed, Ahmed Abd El-Sabor; Somers, Kieran P.; Burke, Ultan; Heufer, Karl A.; Pekalski, Andrzej; Curran, Henry J. (American Chemical Society, 2020-06-03)A comprehensive experimental and kinetic modeling study of the ignition delay time (IDT) characteristics of some binary blends of C1–C2 gaseous hydrocarbons such as methane/ethylene, methane/ethane, and ethane/ethylene was ... -
A detailed chemical kinetic modeling, ignition delay time and jet-stirred reactor study of methanol oxidation
Burke, Ultan; Metcalfe, Wayne K.; Burke, Sinead M.; Heufer, K. Alexander; Dagaut, Philippe; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2016-01-29)A shock tube (ST) and a rapid compression machine (RCM) have been used to measure new ignition delay times for methanol oxidation over a wide range of pressures (2-50 atm) and equivalence ratios (0.5, 1.0, and 2.0). These ... -
Detailed kinetic modeling of dimethoxymethane. Part I: Ab initio thermochemistry and kinetics predictions for key reactions
Kopp, Wassja A.; Kröger, Leif C.; Döntgen, Malte; Jacobs, Sascha; Burke, Ultan; Curran, Henry J.; Heufer, Karl Alexander; Leonhard, Kai (Elsevier, 2017-09-06)Despite the great interest in oxygenated methyl ethers as diesel fuel additives and as fuels themselves, the influence of their methylenedioxy group(s) (0-CH2-0) has never been quantified using ab initio methods. In this ... -
An experimental and chemical kinetic modeling study of 1,3-butadiene combustion: Ignition delay time and laminar flame speed measurements
Zhou, Chong-Wen; Li, Yang; Burke, Ultan; Banyon, Colin; Somers, Kieran P.; Ding, Shuiting; Khan, Saadat; Hargis, Joshua W.; Sikes, Travis; Mathieu, Olivier; Petersen, Eric L.; AlAbbad, Mohammed; Farooq, Aamir; Pan, Youshun; Zhang, Yingjia; Huang, Zuohua; Lopez, Joseph; Loparo, Zachary; Vasu, Subith S.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2018-09-10)Ignition delay times for 1,3-butadiene oxidation were measured in five different shock tubes and in a rapid compression machine (RCM) at thermodynamic conditions relevant to practical combustors. The ignition delay times ... -
An experimental and kinetic modeling study of the oxidation of hexane isomers: Developing consistent reaction rate rules for alkanes
Kuiwen, Zhang; Banyon, Colin; Burke, Ultan; Kukkadapu, Goutham; Wagnon, Scott W.; Mehl, Marco; Curran, Henry J.; Westbrook, Charles K.; Pitz, William J. (Elsevier, 2019-05-09)Alkanes are key components in gasoline, jet and diesel fuels and considerably influence the combustion behavior of these fuels because of their wide range of reactivity. An improved understanding of their combustion behavior ... -
An experimental and kinetic modeling study of the pyrolysis and oxidation of n-C-3-C-5 aldehydes in shock tubes
Pellucci, Matteo; Somers, Kieran P.; Yasunaga, Kenji; Burke, Ultan; Alessio, Frassoldati; Ranzi, Eliseo; Curran, Henry J.; Faravelli, Tiziano (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-08-24)Due to the increasing interest in the use of biofuels for energy production, it is of great importance to better understand the combustion and thermal decomposition characteristics of species such as aldehydes. These are ... -
Experimental and kinetic modeling study of the shock tube ignition of a large oxygenated fuel: tri-propylene glycol mono-methyl ether
Burke, Ultan; Pitz, William J.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2015-05-13)Tri-propylene glycol monomethyl ether (TPGME) is an important oxygenated fuel additive that can be used to reduce soot in diesel engines. However, a validated chemical kinetic model that incorporates the low- to high-temperature ... -
An experimental and modeling study of propene oxidation. Part 2: Ignition delay time and flame speed measurements
Burke, Sinéad M.; Burke, Ultan; Mc Donagh, Reuben; Mathieu, Olivier; Osorio, Irmis; Keesee, Charles; Morones, Anibal; Petersen, Eric L.; Wang, Weijing; DeVerter, Trent A.; Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A.; Rhodes, Brandie; Hanson, Ronald K.; Davidson, David F.; Weber, Bryan W.; Sung, Chih-Jen; Santner, Jeffrey; Ju, Yiguang; Haas, Francis M.; Dryer, Frederick L.; Volkov, Evgeniy N.; Nilsson, Elna J. K.; Konnov, Alexander A.; Alrefae, Majed; Khaled, Fethi; Farooq, Aamir; Dirrenberger, Patricia; Glaude, Pierre-Alexandre; Battin-Leclerc, Frédérique; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2014-09-11)Experimental data obtained in this study (Part II) complement the speciation data presented in Part I, but also offer a basis for extensive facility cross-comparisons for both experimental ignition delay time (IDT) and ... -
An ignition delay and kinetic modeling study of methane, dimethyl ether, and their mixtures at high pressures
Burke, Ultan; Somers, Kieran P.; O’Toole, Peter; Zinner, Chis M.; Marquet, Nicolas; Bourque, Gilles; Petersen, Eric L.; Metcalfe, Wayne K.; Serinyel, Zeynep; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2014-09-29)The development of accurate chemical kinetic models capable of predicting the combustion of methane and dimethyl ether in common combustion environments such as compression ignition engines and gas turbines is important ... -
New experimental insights into acetylene oxidation through novel ignition delay times, laminar burning velocities and chemical kinetic modelling
Lokachari, Nitin; Burke, Ultan; Ramalingam, Ajoy; Turner, Mattias; Hesse, Raik; Somers, Kieran P.; Beeckmann, Joachim; Heufer, Karl A.; Petersen, Eric L.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2018-08-03)The oxidation of acetylene is central to the oxidation of virtually all hydrocarbon fuels. It is also important for commercial industry, due to its wide range of applications such as flame photometry, atomic absorption, ... -
Species measurements of the particulate matter reducing additive tri–propylene glycol monomethyl ether
Burke, Ultan; Shahla, Roya; Dagaut, Phillippe; Dayma, Guillaume; Togbé, Casimir; Somers, Kieran P.; Curran, Henry J. (Elsevier, 2018-07-23)Reducing particulate matter formation and emissions by using fuel additives is a topic of interest for the petrochemical and automotive engineering industries. A compound which has been shown to be effective in this regard ...