Combustion of alane and aluminum with water for hydrogen and thermal energy generation

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1957-1965

  Connell Jr , Terrence L ^a   Risha, Grant A ^a   Yetter, Richard A ^a   Young, Gregory ^b   Sundaram, Dilip S ^c   Yang, Vigor ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum hydride; Chemical efficiency; Combustion; Hydrogen generation; Nano particles

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MASS; ALUMINUM HYDRIDES; BURNING PROPERTIES; BURNING RATE; CHEMICAL EFFICIENCY; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLAME STRUCTURE; FROZEN STATE; HYDROGEN GENERATION; LINEAR BURNING RATE; MICRON-SIZED PARTICLES; MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS; NANO-AL; POWER LAW; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL ENERGY GENERATION; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

ALUMINUM; COMBUSTION; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; NANOPARTICLES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79251603485     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2010.07.088     Document Type: Article

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