- Author
- Bonczyk, P. A.
- Title
- Effects of Alkaline-Earth and Similar Metal Additives on Soot in Flames.
- Coporate
- United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
- Sponsor
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Bolling AFB, Washington, DC Air Force Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall AFB, FL
- Contract
- AFOSR-F49620-83-C-0113
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute/Eastern States Section. Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion. Fall Technical Meeting, 1985. November 4-6, 1985, Philadelphia, Pa, 14/1-14/4 p., 1985
- Keywords
- soot
- Abstract
- Soot is, in almost every circumstance, an undesirable product of combustion. A simple and yet effective way to minimize or eliminate soot is by using fuel additives. Additive suppression of soot has been demonstrated in both laboratory and practical combustion media. The difficults is, however, that the mechanism(s) of additive behavior vis-a-vis soot is still not understood; hence, for example, criteria for the selection and evaluation of specific additives are not available, which has hindered their more frequent use. The aim of this research is to seek to clarify the nature of the mechanisms responsible for fuel additive suppression of soot in well-defined laboratory flames, with the eventual transfer of significant conclusions to additive selection for practical media.