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Article Dans Une Revue Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms Année : 2010

Synchrotron radiation studies of additives in combustion I: Water

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Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) measurements have been performed on a partially pre-mixed ethylene-air flame with and without the introduction of a water aerosol for the same flame height. Our measurements are sensitive to particles with radii in the range of 6-78 nm. It is found that water addition leads to soot suppression below the detection limit at low heights along the flame centerline (<11 mm) and to an increased sooting tendency higher up in the flame. There, larger primary particles (Rg˜20-45 nm) shaped as agglomerates with fractal dimension about 2 are observed together with a large number of smaller (Rg ˜ 10 nm) smooth particles, which we identify with sub-primary units observed in previous work on pure diffusion flames. In the case of the un-doped partially pre-mixed flame, however, only relatively (Rg ˜ 20-35 nm) large spherical particles (Porod's exponent about 4) are observed. An intriguing result is that water addition induces the enhanced formation of sub-primaries, with these having more than 2 orders of magnitude higher number concentration with respect to the spherical particles in the water free flame.

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hal-00657463 , version 1 (06-01-2012)

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James Brian Alexander Mitchell, S. Di Stasio, Jean-Luc Le Garrec, Anca Irina Florescu-Mitchell. Synchrotron radiation studies of additives in combustion I: Water. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 2010, 268 (9), pp.1486-1491. ⟨10.1016/J.NIMB.2010.01.002⟩. ⟨hal-00657463⟩
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