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Toward mobility of solid oxide Fuel cells Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Yuqing Wang, Jixin Shi, Xin Gu, Olaf Deutschmann, Yixiang Shi, Ningsheng Cai
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have witnessed significant advancements in recent years, emerging as potential alternatives to low-temperature fuel cells for mobile applications owing to their wide fuel flexibility and high efficiency. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the progress achieved thus far and the challenges faced in transitioning from stationary to mobility sectors. Three pivotal
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Particle-based high-temperature thermochemical energy storage reactors Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jian Zhao, David Korba, Ashreet Mishra, James Klausner, Kelvin Randhir, Nick AuYeung, Like Li
Solar and other renewable energy driven gas-solid thermochemical energy storage (TCES) technology is a promising solution for the next generation energy storage systems due to its high operating temperature, efficient energy conversion, ultra-long storage duration, and potential high energy density. Experimental and theoretical studies suggest that the respective gravimetric and volumetric TCES energy
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Current status and challenges of plasma and plasma-catalysis for methane coupling: A review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Valeriia Maslova, Raluca Nastase, Gleb Veryasov, Nikolai Nesterenko, Elodie Fourré, Catherine Batiot-Dupeyrat
Non-thermal plasma appears as a promising alternative technology to develop the electrification of the petrochemical industry. Non-thermal plasma has the advantage of operating at atmospheric pressure and room temperature in “on/off” mode. The high-energy electrons generated are able to activate many reactants allowing thermodynamically unfavorable reactions to occur. Methane coupling is particularly
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Battery safety: Machine learning-based prognostics Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Jingyuan Zhao, Xuning Feng, Quanquan Pang, Michael Fowler, Yubo Lian, Minggao Ouyang, Andrew F. Burke
Lithium-ion batteries play a pivotal role in a wide range of applications, from electronic devices to large-scale electrified transportation systems and grid-scale energy storage. Nevertheless, they are vulnerable to both progressive aging and unexpected failures, which can result in catastrophic events such as explosions or fires. Given their expanding global presence, the safety of these batteries
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Fiery ice: An overview of methane hydrate combustion Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 D. Dunn-Rankin, Y.-C. Chien, T. Ueda, R. Ohmura
This article describes the combustion behavior of combustible gases as they are released from the clathrate cages of a hydrate. Gas hydrates (clathrates) are ice-like crystalline solids that encapsulate guest gas molecules. It has become known that a significant methane storehouse is in the form of methane hydrates on the sea floor and in the arctic permafrost. There is great interest in this large
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Lattice Boltzmann methods for combustion applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Seyed Ali Hosseini, Pierre Boivin, Dominique Thévenin, Ilya Karlin
Progress in recent years has opened the door for yet another area of application for the lattice Boltzmann method: Combustion simulations. Combustion is known to be a challenge for numerical tools due to, among many other reasons, a large number of variables and scales both in time and space. The present work aims to provide readers with an overview of recent progress and achievements in using the
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Synthesis and characterization of emulsion fuels –Implications to spray and engine studies Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Sudarshan Gowrishankar, Preetika Rastogi, Anand Krishnasamy, Madivala G. Basavaraj, Niket Kaisare, Indrapal Singh Aidhen
Conventional diesel combustion is a mixing-limited process that passes through high temperature and fuel-rich zones, leading to oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) formation. Simultaneous reduction of NOx and PM is difficult due to NOx-PM trade-off. As alternative fuels, emulsions of water-in-diesel offer several advantages, including a simultaneous reduction in NOx and PM formation
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Alkali metal release in thermochemical conversion of biomass and coal: Optical measurements and modeling Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Zhihua Wang, Siyu Liu, Wubin Weng, Yong He, Marcus Aldén, Zhongshan Li
Alkali metals, mainly K and Na, which are present in solid fuels such as biomass and coal, play an important role during their thermal conversion, e.g., in combustion or gasification. At high temperatures, alkali elements will be released in gas phase as alkali atoms, alkali chlorides, alkali hydroxides and alkali sulphates. In biomass/coal-fired boilers, the release of these alkali species can cause
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Advances in process intensification of direct air CO2 capture with chemical conversion Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Enrique García-Bordejé, Rafael González-Olmos
Capturing CO2 from air (DAC) is becoming an attractive technological route to face the climate crisis. This paper reviews the existing research efforts to integrate DAC with conversion technologies to transform the captured CO2 into chemicals or fuels. The approach can potentially lead to net zero carbon emissions, thus being of interest in a circular economy framework. A growing amount of research
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Advances in thermal energy storage: Fundamentals and applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Tauseef-ur Rehman, Müslüm Arıcı, Zafar Said, Benjamin Duraković, Hayder I. Mohammed, Rajan Kumar, Manish K. Rathod, Ozge Buyukdagli, Mohamed Teggar
Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to the environment. This paper discusses the fundamentals and novel applications of TES materials and identifies appropriate TES materials for particular applications. The selection and ranking of suitable materials are discussed through
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A review on the recent advances of flash boiling atomization and combustion applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Xuesong Li, Shangning Wang, Shangze Yang, Shuyi Qiu, Zhe Sun, David L.S. Hung, Min Xu
Flash boiling atomization is a promising approach to enhance spray atomization with internal energy as the driving force as well. Past investigations primarily focused on the morphologies and macroscopic characteristics of flash boiling sprays. Recently, with the advances in experimental techniques and the need in developing cleaner and more efficient combustion systems, thorough and detailed analyses
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Thermal state monitoring of lithium-ion batteries: Progress, challenges, and opportunities Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yusheng Zheng, Yunhong Che, Xiaosong Hu, Xin Sui, Daniel-Ioan Stroe, Remus Teodorescu
Transportation electrification is a promising solution to meet the ever-rising energy demand and realize sustainable development. Lithium-ion batteries, being the most predominant energy storage devices, directly affect the safety, comfort, driving range, and reliability of many electric mobilities. Nevertheless, thermal-related issues of batteries such as potential thermal runaway, performance degradation
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Mechanical stimulation of gasless reaction in inorganic systems: A mini review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Alexander S. Mukasyan, Metin Örnek, Steven F. Son
The investigation of shock compression in highly exothermic inorganic powder mixtures leading to reaction has been a subject of interest for several decades. In particular, understanding the processes occurring within the time scale of the high-pressure shock state, resulting in the formation of new materials and phases, has garnered significant attention. Chemical reactions in shock-compressed media
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Biochar as the effective adsorbent to combustion gaseous pollutants: Preparation, activation, functionalization and the adsorption mechanisms Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Chang Wen, Tianyu Liu, Dapeng Wang, Yaqin Wang, Hanping Chen, Guangqian Luo, Zijian Zhou, Changkang Li, Minghou Xu
The massive combustion utilization of fossil fuel in human industrial activities, such as power plants, waste incineration, and kiln combustion for cement production, would emit serious gaseous pollutants (SO2, NOx, VOC, and mercury), aerosols and CO2. There is a growing interest in using novel solid sorbents, i.e., activated carbon (AC), zeolites, carbon nanotube, carbon molecular sieve, and MOFs
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Selective ring-opening of polycyclic to monocyclic aromatics: A data- and technology-oriented critical review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Gontzal Lezcano, Idoia Hita, Yerraya Attada, Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari, Ali H. Jawad, Alberto Lozano-Ballesteros, Miao Sun, Noor Al-Mana, Mohammed AlAmer, Eman Z. Albaher, Pedro Castaño
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatics or polyarenes are a major (by-)product fraction of multiple classical, waste, and bio-refinery operations. They have an extremely negative environmental impact, a minimal market, and a lowering demand. Parallelly, lowly alkylated single ring arenes or monoaromatics (benzene, toluene, and xylenes, the so-called BTX fraction) are highly demanded due to
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Use of hydrogen in dual-fuel diesel engines Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Seyyed Hassan Hosseini, Athanasios Tsolakis, Avinash Alagumalai, Omid Mahian, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Hydrogen is a promising future energy carrier due to its potential for production from renewable resources. It can be used in existing compression ignition diesel engines in a dual-fuel mode with little modification. Hydrogen's unique physiochemical properties, such as higher calorific value, flame speed, and diffusivity in air, can effectively improve the performance and combustion characteristics
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Spark ignition transitions in premixed turbulent combustion Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Shenqyang (Steven) Shy
Recent discoveries and developments on the dynamic process of premixed turbulent spark ignition are reviewed. The focus here is on the variation of turbulent minimum ignition energies (MIET) against laminar MIE (MIEL) over a wide range of r.m.s. turbulence fluctuation velocity (uʹ) alongside effects of the spark gap between electrodes, Lewis number, and some other parameters on MIE. Two distinguishable
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Carbons as low-platinum catalyst supports and non-noble catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Yizhe Chen, Shiming Zhang, Joey Chung-Yen Jung, Jiujun Zhang
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MXene-based heterostructures: Current trend and development in electrochemical energy storage devices Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Iftikhar Hussain, Charmaine Lamiel, Muhammad Sufyan Javed, Muhammad Ahmad, Sumanta Sahoo, Xi Chen, Ning Qin, Sarmad Iqbal, Shuai Gu, Yuxiang Li, Christodoulos Chatzichristodoulou, Kaili Zhang
MXene (two-dimensional transition metal carbide, nitrides, and/or carbonitrides) has shown considerable interest in a variety of research fields due to its excellent conductivity, hydrophilicity, and abundant surface functional groups. However, MXene's challenges in aggregation and low stability, severely limit its applicability. MXenes can be prepared by a variety of techniques, including exfoliation
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Particles in a turbulent gas: Diffusion, bias, modulation and collisions Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Eric Loth
Turbulence is an effective way to spread particles and drops in a fluid, which is critical for many energy systems, ranging from carbon-based power-production to spray cooling for renewable energy storage. Combining the intricacies of turbulence with the complexities of particle motion has led to numerous advances, especially in the last two decades in terms of turbulent bias, and turbulence modulations
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Classical and reactive molecular dynamics: Principles and applications in combustion and energy systems Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Qian Mao, Muye Feng, Xi Zhuo Jiang, Yihua Ren, Kai H. Luo, Adri C.T. van Duin
Molecular dynamics (MD) has evolved into a ubiquitous, versatile and powerful computational method for fundamental research in science branches such as biology, chemistry, biomedicine and physics over the past 60 years. Powered by rapidly advanced supercomputing technologies in recent decades, MD has entered the engineering domain as a first-principle predictive method for material properties, physicochemical
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Progress in beam-down solar concentrating systems Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Evangelos Bellos
Concentrating solar technologies are promising renewable energy systems for exploiting incident beam solar irradiation with high exergy efficiency values. These systems provide the possibility for producing useful heat at high temperatures that can be utilized by highly efficient power cycles or producing directly solar fuels with receiver reactor technology. In the last years, the concept of beam-down
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Thermochemical conversion of waste printed circuit boards: Thermal behavior, reaction kinetics, pollutant evolution and corresponding controlling strategies Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Zhitong Yao, Markus Reinmöller, Nuria Ortuño, Hongxu Zhou, Meiqing Jin, Jie Liu, Rafael Luque
With the rapid development of the global electronics industry, waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs) has become one of the world's fastest growing waste streams. Exploring an environmentally sound treatment for this abundant and multi-component waste is critical to its sustainable development. This study has been aimed to cover thermochemical conversion of WPCBs (combustion, pyrolysis, gasification
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Polyurethane-based membranes for CO2 separation: A comprehensive review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Farhad Ahmadijokani, Hossein Molavi, Salman Ahmadipouya, Mashallah Rezakazemi, Ahmadreza Ghaffarkhah, Milad Kamkar, Akbar Shojaei, Mohammad Arjmand
The membrane process has been considered a promising technology for effective CO2 capture due to its outstanding features, including a small environmental footprint, reduced energy consumption, simplicity of operation, compact design, ease of scalability and maintenance, and low capital cost. Among the developed polymeric materials for membrane fabrication, polyurethane (PU) and poly(urethane-urea)
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A review of solar hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors and systems Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 María Herrando, Kai Wang, Gan Huang, Todd Otanicar, Osama Bany Mousa, Rafaela A. Agathokleous, Yulong Ding, Soteris Kalogirou, Ned Ekins-Daukes, Robert A. Taylor, Christos N. Markides
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in hybrid PV-T collectors and the wider systems within which they can be implemented, and assess the worldwide energy and carbon mitigation potential of these systems. We cover both experimental and computational studies, identify opportunities for performance enhancement, pathways for collector innovation, and implications
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Enhanced microalgal lipid production for biofuel using different strategies including genetic modification of microalgae: A review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Kuan Shiong Khoo, Imran Ahmad, Kit Wayne Chew, Koji Iwamoto, Amit Bhatnagar, Pau Loke Show
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Elucidation of single atom catalysts for energy and sustainable chemical production: Synthesis, characterization and frontier science Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Adrian Chun Minh Loy, Sin Yong Teng, Bing Shen How, Xixia Zhang, Kin Wai Cheah, Valeria Butera, Wei Dong Leong, Bridgid Lai Fui Chin, Chung Loong Yiin, Martin J. Taylor, Georgios Kyriakou
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Challenges and opportunities of light olefin production via thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of end-of-life polyolefins: Towards full recyclability Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Mehrdad Seifali Abbas-Abadi, Yannick Ureel, Andreas Eschenbacher, Florence H. Vermeire, Robin John Varghese, Jogchum Oenema, Georgios D. Stefanidis, Kevin M. Van Geem
Is full recyclability of polyolefins via chemical recycling a dream, or can it become a reality? The main problem in recycling plastic waste is that its composition is highly heterogeneous while sorting and purifying solutions to obtain mono-streams are complex and require large investments, thereby hampering the economy of scale. Ideally, novel chemical recycling processes are designed to have mixed
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Biofuels, electrofuels, electric or hydrogen?: A review of current and emerging sustainable aviation systems Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Pimchanok Su-ungkavatin, Ligia Tiruta-Barna, Lorie Hamelin
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Chemical looping-based energy transformation via lattice oxygen modulated selective oxidation Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Zhao Sun, Christopher K. Russell, Kevin J. Whitty, Eric G. Eddings, Jinze Dai, Yulong Zhang, Maohong Fan, Zhiqiang Sun
Modulating anionic oxygen in metal oxides offers exceptional opportunities for energy material synthesis via redox looping; however, several challenges such as overoxidation and catalyst deactivation need to be solved. This paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art schemes for the selective synthesis of valuable chemicals via lattice oxygen-induced redox looping. Compared with previously published
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Modelling treatment of deposits in particulate filters for internal combustion emissions Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Chung Ting Lao, Jethro Akroyd, Markus Kraft
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Combustion chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Hanfeng Jin, Wenhao Yuan, Wei Li, Jiuzhong Yang, Zhongyue Zhou, Long Zhao, Yuyang Li, Fei Qi
Aromatic hydrocarbons are important components of petroleum-based transportation fuels, biomass, coal, and solid waste, etc. The reaction kinetics of aromatic hydrocarbons largely determine the combustion characteristics and pollutant emission of vehicle/jet engines, power plants, and industrial reactors. While a few reviews have recently focused on aromatic hydrocarbons in gasoline surrogate fuels
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Bubble evolution and transport in PEM water electrolysis: Mechanism, impact, and management Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Shu Yuan, Congfan Zhao, Xiyang Cai, Lu An, Shuiyun Shen, Xiaohui Yan, Junliang Zhang
Proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE), as a promising technology for hydrogen production from renewable energy sources, has great potential for industrial application. Gas bubbles are known to influence the PEMWE cell performance significantly, but a full picture of bubble behaviors and their impacts on cell performance has been lacking. In this review, we first discuss the most recent
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Pool fire dynamics: Principles, models and recent advances Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Yuhang Chen, Jun Fang, Xiaolei Zhang, Yanli Miao, Yujie Lin, Ran Tu, Longhua Hu
Pool fire is generally described as a diffusion combustion process that occurs above a horizontal fuel surface (composed of gaseous or volatile condensed fuel) with low (∼zero) initial momentum. Fundamentally, this type of diffusion combustion can be represented by basic forms ranging from a small laminar candle flame, to a turbulent medium-scale sofa fire, and up a storage tank fire, or even a massive
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Intrinsic thermoacoustic instabilities Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Camilo F. Silva
It is accepted that the thermoacoustic behavior of a given combustion system can be analyzed by investigating how its natural acoustic modes are perturbed by the flame dynamics. As a result, the resonance frequency and structure of the resulting thermoacoustic mode – understood as a perturbed acoustic mode – are slightly modified with respect to the natural acoustic mode counterpart. However, experimental
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Sorption direct air capture with CO2 utilization Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 L. Jiang, W. Liu, R.Q. Wang, A. Gonzalez-Diaz, M.F. Rojas-Michaga, S. Michailos, M. Pourkashanian, X.J. Zhang, C. Font-Palma
Direct air capture (DAC) is gathering momentum since it has vast potential and high flexibility to collect CO2 from discrete sources as “synthetic tree” when compared with current CO2 capture technologies, e.g., amine based post-combustion capture. It is considered as one of the emerging carbon capture technologies in recent decades and remains in a prototype investigation stage with many technical
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Low-speed pre-ignition and super-knock in boosted spark-ignition engines: A review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kristian Rönn, Andre Swarts, Vickey Kalaskar, Terry Alger, Rupali Tripathi, Juha Keskiväli, Ossi Kaario, Annukka Santasalo-Aarnio, Rolf Reitz, Martti Larmi
The introduction of downsized, turbocharged Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) engines in the automotive market has led to a rapid increase in research on Low-speed Pre-ignition (LSPI) and super-knock as abnormal combustion phenomena within the last decade. The former is characterized as an early ignition of the fuel–air mixture, primarily initiated by an oil–fuel droplet or detached deposit. Meanwhile
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A review of hydrogen/rock/brine interaction: Implications for Hydrogen Geo-storage Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Masoud Aslannezhad, Muhammad Ali, Azim Kalantariasl, Mohammad Sayyafzadeh, Zhenjiang You, Stefan Iglauer, Alireza Keshavarz
Hydrogen (H2) is currently considered a clean fuel to decrease anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and will play a vital role in climate change mitigation. Nevertheless, one of the primary challenges of achieving a complete H2 economy is the large-scale storage of H2, which is unsafe on the surface because H2 is highly compressible, volatile, and flammable. Hydrogen storage in geological formations
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Reduction in greenhouse gas and other emissions from ship engines: Current trends and future options Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Päivi T. Aakko-Saksa, Kati Lehtoranta, Niina Kuittinen, Anssi Järvinen, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, Kent Johnson, Heejung Jung, Leonidas Ntziachristos, Stéphanie Gagné, Chiori Takahashi, Panu Karjalainen, Topi Rönkkö, Hilkka Timonen
The impact of ship emission reductions can be maximised by considering climate, health and environmental effects simultaneously and using solutions fitting into existing marine engines and infrastructure. Several options available enable selecting optimum solutions for different ships, routes and regions. Carbon-neutral fuels, including low-carbon and carbon-negative fuels, from biogenic or non-biogenic
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Opportunities and challenges in using particle circulation loops for concentrated solar power applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Gilles Flamant, Benjamin Grange, John Wheeldon, Frédéric Siros, Benoît Valentin, Françoise Bataille, Huili Zhang, Yimin Deng, Jan Baeyens
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is an electricity generation technology that concentrates solar irradiance through heliostats onto a small area, the receiver, where a heat transfer medium, currently a fluid (HTF), is used as heat carrier towards the heat storage and power block. It has been under the spotlight for a decade as one of the potential or promising renewable and sustainable energy technologies
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Fundamentals of window-ejected fire plumes from under-ventilated compartment fires: Recent progresses and perspectives Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Xiepeng Sun, Fei Tang, Kaihua Lu, Fei Ren, Congling Shi, Bart Merci, Longhua Hu
This paper intends to provide a comprehensive state-of-art review of recent progresses and to formulate perspectives on window-ejected fire plumes, originating from under-ventilated compartment fires (known as ‘Regime I’ fires). Various external boundary conditions are considered, as they contribute to the fire and plume dynamics, and as such affect decisions on fire prevention and firefighting. Hence
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Critical review on the synthesis, characterization, and application of highly efficient metal chalcogenide catalysts for fuel cells Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Tasnim Eisa, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Dipak A. Jadhav, Hend Omar Mohamed, Enas Taha Sayed, Abdul Ghani Olabi, Pedro Castaño, Kyu-Jung Chae
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Volumetric emission tomography for combustion processes Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Samuel J. Grauer, Khadijeh Mohri, Tao Yu, Hecong Liu, Weiwei Cai
This is a comprehensive, critical, and pedagogical review of volumetric emission tomography for combustion processes. Many flames that are of interest to scientists and engineers are turbulent and thus inherently three-dimensional, especially in practical combustors, which often contain multiple interacting flames. Fortunately, combustion leads to the emission of light, both spontaneously and in response
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A review of diaphragmless shock tubes for interdisciplinary applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 S. Janardhanraj, S.K. Karthick, A. Farooq
Shock tubes have emerged as an effective tool for applications in various fields of research and technology. The conventional mode of shock tube operation employs a frangible diaphragm to generate shock waves. The last half-century has witnessed significant efforts to replace this diaphragm-bursting method with fast-acting valves. These diaphragmless methods have good repeatability, quick turnaround
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Norman Chigier (1933 – 2022) Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Hai Wang, Christof Schulz
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Advances in biomass torrefaction: Parameters, models, reactors, applications, deployment, and market Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Sonal K. Thengane, Kevin S. Kung, Alberto Gomez-Barea, Ahmed F. Ghoniem
Biomass is a promising renewable source that can reduce fossil fuel consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions, but some of its characteristics make it difficult to use in its raw form. Torrefaction has been proposed as a thermochemical pretreatment to upgrade biomass for direct applications such as combustion and gasification, biochar and chemicals production, while reducing its transportation
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Boron-based composite energetic materials (B-CEMs): Preparation, combustion and applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Wei-Qiang Pang, Richard A. Yetter, Luigi T. DeLuca, Vladimir Zarko, Alon Gany, Xiao-Hong Zhang
Metal fuels are attractive for solid/hybrid rocket propulsion and energy-conversion applications, because of their high energy densities. Boron powder (B), due to its high gravimetric (58.30 MJ·kg−1) and volumetric heats of combustion (136.44 kJ·cm−3), is ideally one of the most promising fuel candidates for fuel-rich solid propellant (SP). However, from an application perspective, amorphous B has
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Micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) for solar photothermal absorption and storage: Fundamentals, recent advances, and future directions Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Samah A. Albdour, Zoubida Haddad, Omar Z. Sharaf, Anas Alazzam, Eiyad Abu-Nada
Building on their dual functionality for solar photothermal absorption and storage, slurries/dispersions of micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) are capable of revolutionizing the solar-thermal industry. Yet, to facilitate their transition from the research and development stage into market adoption and penetration, there is a dire need for a methodical understanding of the design
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Tire pyrolysis char: Processes, properties, upgrading and applications Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Ningbo Gao, Fengchao Wang, Cui Quan, Laura Santamaria, Gartzen Lopez, Paul T. Williams
Waste tires are solid wastes with large annual output and with the potential for great harm to the environment. The pyrolysis of waste tires can recycle energy and produce reusable products. Although there are many reviews in the literature in regard to the pyrolysis characteristics of waste tires, no one paper focuses on reviewing and summarizing the tire char. This paper critically appraises the
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Challenges and Opportunities for Application of Reactivity-Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion in Commercially Viable Transport Engines Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Avinash K. Agarwal, Akhilendra P. Singh, Antonio García, Javier Monsalve-Serrano
Several advanced low-temperature combustion (LTC) strategies have been developed to reduce the harmful emissions from diesel engines. These LTC strategies, such as homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI), and reactivity-controlled compression ignition (RCCI), can reduce engine-out nitrogen oxides (NOx) and soot emissions simultaneously. LTC investigations
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Analysis of solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells operated in a real-system environment: State-of-the-health diagnostic, failure modes, degradation mitigation and performance regeneration Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Vanja Subotić, Christoph Hochenauer
Solid oxide cells (SOC) play a major role in strategic visions to achieve decarbonization and climate-neutrality. With its multifuel capability, this technology has received rapidly growing amount of attention from researchers worldwide. Due to the great flexibility of SOCs with respect to the fuels that can be used, not only hydrogen, but also biogas, natural gas, diesel reformates and many other
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CO2 hydrate properties and applications: A state of the art Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Saeid Sinehbaghizadeh, Agus Saptoro, Amir H. Mohammadi
Global warming is one of the most pressing environmental concerns which correlates strongly with anthropogenic CO2 emissions so that the CO2 decreasing strategies have been meaningful worldwide attention. As an option, natural gas hydrate reservoirs have steadily emerged as a potent source of energy which would simultaneously be the proper places for CO2 sequestration if the method of CO2/CH4 replacement
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Pyrolysis technology for plastic waste recycling: A state-of-the-art review Prog. Energy Combust. Sci. (IF 29.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Leilei Dai, Nan Zhou, Yuancai Lv, Yanling Cheng, Yunpu Wang, Yuhuan Liu, Kirk Cobb, Paul Chen, Hanwu Lei, Roger Ruan