Oxidative stability of middle distillate fuels. Part 1: Exploring the soluble macromolecular oxidatively reactive species (SMORS) mechanism with jet fuels

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5145-5157

  Kabana, Christopher G ^a   Botha, Shanielle ^b   Schmucker, Colin ^a   Woolard, Chris ^b   Beaver, Bruce ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 ,4-BENZOQUINONE; ALKYLPYRROLES; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; FUEL COMPONENTS; HETEROATOMS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU; JET A-1; MIDDLE DISTILLATES; MODEL COMPOUND; OXIDATIVE STABILITY; PARTS PER MILLIONS; REACTIVE SPECIES; THERMAL OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION; THERMAL OXIDATIVE STABILITY; ULTRA-LOW SULFUR DIESEL;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; JET FUEL; MACROMOLECULES; OLIGOMERS; OXIDATION; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; PHENOLS; SULFUR;

FUELS;

EID: 81555201722     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef200964z     Document Type: Article

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