2017 Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Engineering for Combustion and Pyrolysis

Topics covered range from detailed chemical kinetics and reacting flow simulation methods and experimental measurements through practical industrial engineering of high-temperature processes.

Chair

C Franklin Goldsmith, Brown University

Co-Chair

Bihter Padak, University of South Carolina

Presentations

12:30 PM

(571a) Kinetics of the thermal decomposition of sulfur compounds
Marko R. Djokic, Kevin Van Geem, Ruben Van de Vijver, Guy B. Marin, Cato A.R. Pappijn, Marie-Françoise Reyniers

12:52 PM

(571b) A Cylindrical Formulation of the One Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) Model for Turbulent Jet Flames
David Lignell, Victoria B. Lansinger, Alan Kerstein

01:14 PM

(571c) Automated Transition State Theory Calculation of Hydrogen Abstraction from Novel Biofuels
Richard H. West, Nathan Harms

01:36 PM

(571d) First Principles Based Automated Kinetic Model Generation Using on-the-Fly Ab Initio Calculations
Ruben Van de Vijver, Guy B. Marin, Kevin Van Geem

01:58 PM

(571e) Quantifying the Catalytic Effect of Calcium on Initiation during Cellulose Pyrolysis
Gregory G. Facas, Cheng Zhu, Matthew Neurock, Paul Dauenhauer

02:20 PM

(571f) Development of a Micro Kinetic Model of Soot for Ethylene Flames
Preeti Aghalayam, Srivathsan Sundar, Satyanarayanan R Chakravarthy

02:42 PM

(571g) Artificial Neural Networks for Flare Modeling and Set Point Determination
Vijaya Damodara, Daniel Chen, Helen H. Lou, Arokiaraj Alphones, Christopher Martin, Xianchang Li