Alternative fuels for spark-ignition engines: Mixing rules for the laminar burning velocity of gasoline-alcohol blends

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4721-4727

  Sileghem, Louis ^a   Vancoillie, Jeroen ^a   Demuynck, Joachim ^a   Galle, Jonas ^a   Verhelst, Sebastian ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC FLAME; CHEMICAL KINETIC MODEL; CHEMICAL OXIDATION; COMPUTATION TIME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLAME STRETCH; FUEL BLENDS; LAMINAR BURNING; LAMINAR BURNING VELOCITY; MIXING RULES; MODELING DATA; MULTICOMPONENT FUEL; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; RULE BASED;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BLENDING; ETHANOL; FORECASTING; HEPTANE; TOLUENE;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84865130636     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef300393h     Document Type: Conference Paper

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