Hazardous wastes from various industrial processes are normally incinerated with rotary kilns in order to comply with current environmental regulations. They have often very complicated chemical compositions in a variety of physical forms and difficult to characterise. The complex transport phenomena within the incinerator are not well understood, and the incineration process expects large unce...

In recent decades, detailed kinetic models have become integral to combustion research. Progress has been significant and the latest models can explain many complicated combustion phenomena, and allow increasingly accurate engine simulations. These models can be very large (eg. the LLNL model for 2-methylalkanes has over 7,000 species and 30,000 reactions [1]) and there are now dozens of large ...

Diesel engines are the most commonly used internal combustion engines nowadays, especially in European transportation. This preference is due to their low consumption and acceptable driveability and comfort. However, the main disadvantages of traditional direct injection Diesel engines are their high levels of noise, nitrogen oxides (NO x) and soot emissions, and the usage of fossil fuels. In o...

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function of the pre-fire vegetation and the post-fire environment. Much of the area burned is characterized by total tree death, and the young post-fire vegetation is dominated by fast growing successional species, which are eventually succeeded by longer-lived tree species. Direct fire combustion releases in Canada are about 1.5 kg C m on average, plus some additional greenhouse gases such as ...

The aim of this work is to further validate a general and detailed kinetic model on very recent experimental data of the oxidation and combustion of aromatic compounds and also in the case of their blends with n-alkanes, both studied in a jet-stirred reactor. The comparisons between new experimental data and model predictions further confirm the validity and the broad applicability of the kinet...