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Hydrocarbon Fuels: Gas-Dynamic and Energy Parameters of Detonation

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Data on the most important combustion and detonation parameters, such as wave velocities, pressures and temperatures of products, specific energy release of mixtures are presented for saturated hydrocarbons C\(_{n}\)H\(_{2n + 2 }\) [from methane (\(n\) = 1) to eicosane (\(n\) = 20)] and unsaturated hydrocarbons C\(_{n}\)H\(_{2n}\)[from ethylene (\(n\) = 2) to eicosene (\(n\) = 20)], also methanol and ethanol as the main components of biofuel and monofuels as a source of bifurcation structures of multifront detonation. Data are also given on the critical initiation energies as a measure of the explosion hazard of combustible systems: the lower the energy, the more hazardous the mixture. Data were obtained for mixtures of each individual hydrocarbon with oxygen and air in a wide range of initial parameters: pressure, temperature, concentration and phase state of fuel components.

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Vasil’ev, A.A., Vasil’ev, V.A. Hydrocarbon Fuels: Gas-Dynamic and Energy Parameters of Detonation. Combust Explos Shock Waves 56, 655–669 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010508220060052

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