Project Title:

Reaction Mechanics and Kinetic Rates for Soot Formation

01.01-9030A
NAS3-25839
Reaction Mechanics and Kinetic Rates for Soot
	Formation
Physical Sciences, Inc.
	20 New England Business Center
	Andover, MA 01810
		W. Terry Rawlins
(508-689-0003)

Abstract:

	The design of advanced gas turbine engines needs predictive models of soot formation
and radiation in the high-pressure combustion of future, practical hydrocarbon fuels.
The development of such models requires a fundamental data base, in the appropriate
pressure regimes for elucidating the mechanisms governing polycyclic molecular growth,
oxidative inhibition of sooting, and soot-particle nucleation and growth. Advanced
optical shock tube techniques will be used to provide a data base against which to
test modeling concepts.

Potential Commercial Application:

Potential Commercial Applications: This work would support design of advanced gas
turbine and diesel engines for use in both the public and private sectors.