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Author
Sorensen, C. M.
Title
Light Scattering Studies of Fractal Soot Aggregates in Flames.
Coporate
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan
Sponsor
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
Report
NISTIR 5499, September 1994,
Distribution
Available from National Technical Information Service
Contract
NSF-GRANT-CTS-9024668
Book or Conf
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 129-130 p., 1994
Keywords
fire research | soot | light scattering | morphology | soot aggregates
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of our work concerning light scattering studies of soot in flames. We have developed static light scattering (SLS) to an ability where a complete in situ characterization of soot cluster morphology can be obtained. The morphological parameters we can measure are soot cluster radius of gyration, fractal dimension, number of monomers per cluster, and monomer radius. We have also developed an SLS technique to measure the width of the size distribution.