Publications by authors named "Fiona Gillespie"
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- The study investigates the combustion chemistry of 2,5-dimethylfuran (25DMF) by conducting experiments on its pyrolytic and oxidative behaviors in controlled conditions, focusing on various temperatures, pressures, and compositions.
- It includes the measurement of ignition delay times and burning velocities to address inconsistencies in previous literature and to create a detailed chemical kinetic mechanism with thousands of reactions and species to accurately predict combustion outcomes.
- The results reveal that at high temperatures, the dominant decomposition pathway is a hydrogen atom transfer, which is critical for understanding the ignition and pyrolysis of 25DMF, along with suggesting future directions for research on intermediate reactions.
An experimental ignition delay time study for the promising biofuel 2-methyl furan (2MF) was performed at equivalence ratios of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study presents new adiabatic laminar burning velocities of diethyl ether in air, measured on a flat-flame burner using the heat flux method. The experimental pressure was 1 atm and temperatures of the fresh gas mixture ranged from 298 to 398 K. Flame velocities were recorded at equivalence ratios from 0.
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