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| Prologue | |
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| Preface | |
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| Chemical Thermodynamics and Flame Temperatures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Heats of reaction and formation | |
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| Free energy and the equilibrium constants | |
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| Flame temperature calculations | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Practical considerations | |
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| Sub- and super sonic combustion thermodynamics | |
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| Comparisons | |
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| Stagnation pressure considerations | |
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| Problems | |
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| Chemical Kinetics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rates of reactions and their temperature dependence | |
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| The Arrhenius rate expression | |
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| Transition state and recombination rate theories | |
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| Simultaneous interdependent reactions | |
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| Chain reactions | |
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| Pseudo-first-order reactions and the "fall-off" range | |
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| The partial equilibrium assumption | |
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| Pressure effect in fractional conversion | |
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| Chemical kinetics of large reaction mechanisms | |
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| Sensitivity analysis | |
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| Rate of production analysis | |
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| Coupled thermal and chemical reacting systems | |
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| Mechanism simplification | |
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| Problems | |
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| Explosive and General Oxidative Characteristics of Fuels | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chain branching reactions and criteria for explosion | |
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| Explosion limits and oxidation characteristics of hydrogen | |
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| Explosion limits and oxidation characteristics of carbon monoxide | |
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| Explosion limits and oxidation characteristics of hydrocarbons | |
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| Organic nomenclature | |
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| Explosion limits | |
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| "Low-temperature" hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms | |
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| The oxidation of aldehydes | |
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| The oxidation of methane | |
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| Low-temperature mechanism | |
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| High-temperature mechanism | |
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| The oxidation of higher-order hydrocarbons | |
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| Aliphatic hydrocarbons | |
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| Alcohols | |
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| Aromatic hydrocarbons | |
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| Supercritical effects | |
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| Problems | |
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| Flame Phenomena in Premixed Combustible Gases | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Laminar flame structure | |
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| The laminar flame speed | |
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| The theory of Mallard and Le Chatelier | |
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| The theory of Zeldovich, Frank-Kamenetskii, and Semenov | |
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| Comprehensive theory and laminar flame structure analysis | |
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| The laminar flame and the energy equation | |
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| Flame speed measurements | |
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| Experimental results: physical and chemical effects | |
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| Stability limits of laminar flames | |
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| Flammability limits | |
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| Quenching distance | |
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| Flame stabilization (low velocity) | |
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| Stability limits and design | |
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| Flame propagation through stratified combustible mixtures | |
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| Turbulent reacting flows and turbulent flames | |
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| The rate of reaction in a turbulent field | |
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| Regimes of turbulent reacting flows | |
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| The turbulent flame speed | |
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| Stirred reactor theory | |
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| Flame stabilization in high-velocity streams | |
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| Combustion in small volumes | |
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| Problems | |
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| Detonation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Premixed and diffusion flames | |
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| Explosion, deflagration, and detonation | |
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| The onset of detonation | |
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| Detonation phenomena | |
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| Hugoniot relations and the hydrodynamic theory of detonations | |
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| Characterization of the Hugoniot curve and the uniqueness of the C-J point | |
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| Determination of the speed of sound in the burned gases for conditions above the C-J point | |
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| Calculation of the detonation velocity | |
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| Comparison of detonation velocity calculations with experimental results | |
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| The ZND structure of detonation waves | |
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| The structure of the cellular detonation front and other detonation phenomena parameters | |
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| The cellular detonation front | |
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| The dynamic detonation parameters | |
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| Detonation limits | |
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| Detonations in nongaseous media | |
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| Problems | |
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| Diffusion Flames | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gaseous fuel jets | |
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| Appearance | |
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| Structure | |
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| Theoretical considerations | |
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| The Burke-Schumann development | |
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| Turbulent fuel jets | |
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| Burning of condensed phases | |
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| General mass burning considerations and the evaporation coefficient | |
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| Single fuel droplets in quiescent atmospheres | |
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| Burning of droplet clouds | |
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| Burning in convective atmospheres | |
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| The stagnant film case | |
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| The longitudinally burning surface | |
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| The flowing droplet case | |
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| Burning rates of plastics: The small B assumption and radiation effects | |
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| Problems | |
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| Ignition | |
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| Concepts | |
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| Chain spontaneous ignition | |
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| Thermal spontaneous ignition | |
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| Semenov approach of thermal ignition | |
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| Frank-Kamenetskii theory of thermal ignition | |
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| Forced ignition | |
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| Spark ignition and minimum ignition energy | |
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| Ignition by adiabatic compression and shock waves | |
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| Other ignition concepts | |
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| Hypergolicity and pyrophoricity | |
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| Catalytic ignition | |
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| Problems | |
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| Environmental Combustion Considerations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The nature of photochemical smog | |
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| Primary and secondary pollutants | |
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| The effect of NO[subscript x] | |
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| The effect of SO[subscript x] | |
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| Formation and reduction of nitrogen oxides | |
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| The structure of the nitrogen oxides | |
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| The effect of flame structure | |
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| Reaction mechanisms of oxides of nitrogen | |
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| The reduction of NO[subscript x] | |
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| SO[subscript x] emissions | |
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| The product composition and structure of sulfur compounds | |
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| Oxidative mechanisms of sulfur fuels | |
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| Particulate formation | |
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| Characteristics of soot | |
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| Soot formation processes | |
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| Experimental systems and soot formation | |
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| Sooting tendencies | |
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| Detailed structure of sooting flames | |
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| Chemical mechanisms of soot formation | |
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| The influence of physical and chemical parameters on soot formation | |
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| Stratospheric ozone | |
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| The HO[subscript x] catalytic cycle | |
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| The NO[subscript x] catalytic cycle | |
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| The ClO[subscript x] catalytic cycle | |
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| Problems | |
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| Combustion of Nonvolatile Fuels | |
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| Carbon char, soot, and metal combustion | |
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| Metal combustion thermodynamics | |
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| The criterion for vapor-phase combustion | |
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| Thermodynamics of metal-oxygen systems | |
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| Thermodynamics of metal-air systems | |
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| Combustion synthesis | |
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| Diffusional kinetics | |
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| Diffusion-controlled burning rate | |
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| Burning of metals in nearly pure oxygen | |
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| Burning of small particles - diffusion versus kinetic limits | |
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| The burning of boron particles | |
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| Carbon particle combustion (C. R. Shaddix) | |
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| Practical carbonaceous fuels (C. R. Shaddix) | |
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| Devolatilization | |
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| Char combustion | |
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| Pulverized coal char oxidation | |
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| Gasification and oxy-combustion | |
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| Soot oxidation (C. R. Shaddix) | |
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| Problems | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Thermochemical Data and Conversion Factors | |
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| Conversion factors and physical constants | |
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| Thermochemical data for selected chemical compounds | |
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| Thermochemical data for species included in reaction list of Appendix C | |
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| Adiabatic Flame Temperatures of Hydrocarbons | |
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| Adiabatic flame temperatures | |
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| Specific Reaction Rate Constants | |
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| H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| CH[subscript 2]O/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| CH[subscript 3]OH/CH[subscript 2]O/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| CH[subscript 4]/CH[subscript 3]OH/CH[subscript 2]O/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| C[subscript 2]H[subscript 6]/CH[subscript 4]/CH[subscript 3]OH/CH[subscript 2]O/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| Selected reactions of a C[subscript 3]H[subscript 8] oxidation mechanism | |
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| N[subscript x]O[subscript y]/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| HCl/N[subscript x]O[subscript y]/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| O[subscript 3]/N[subscript x]O[subscript y]/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| SO[subscript x]/N[subscript x]O[subscript y]/CO/H[subscript 2]/O[subscript 2] mechanism | |
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| Bond Dissociation Energies of Hydrocarbons | |
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| Bond dissociation energies of alkanes | |
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| Bond dissociation energies of alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics | |
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| Bond dissociation energies of C/H/O compounds | |
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| Bond dissociation energies of sulfur-containing compounds | |
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| Bond dissociation energies of nitrogen-containing compounds | |
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| Bond dissociation energies of halocarbons | |
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| Flammability Limits in Air | |
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| Flammability limits of fuel gases and vapors in air at 25[degree]C and 1 atm | |
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| Laminar Flame Speeds | |
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| Burning velocities of various fuels at 25[degree]C air-fuel temperature (0.31 mol% H[subscript 2]O in air). Burning velocity S as a function of equivalence ratio [phi] in cm/s | |
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| Burning velocities of various fuels at 100[degree]C air-fuel temperature (0.31 mol% H[subscript 2]O in air). Burning velocity S as a function of equivalence ratio [phi] in cm/s | |
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| Burning velocities of various fuels in air as a function of pressure for an equivalence ratio of 1 in cm/s | |
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| Spontaneous Ignition Temperature Data | |
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| Spontaneous ignition temperature data | |
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| Minimum Spark Ignition Energies and Quenching Distances | |
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| Minimum spark ignition energy data for fuels in air at 1 atm pressure | |
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| Programs for Combustion Kinetics | |
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| Thermochemical parameters | |
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| Kinetic parameters | |
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| Transport parameters | |
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| Reaction mechanisms | |
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| Thermodynamic equilibrium | |
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| Temporal kinetics (Static and flow reactors) | |
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| Stirred reactors | |
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| Shock tubes | |
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| Premixed flames | |
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| Diffusion flames | |
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| Boundary layer flow | |
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| Detonations | |
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| Model analysis and mechanism reduction | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |