Combustion kinetics-- Guest lecture given by Professor Olivier Herbinet

Outline of the lecture:

1) Phenomena Observed in the Combustion of Hydrocarbons

• Slow Oxidation - Cool Flames – Ignition

• Relationship between structure and reactivity

• Nature of reaction products

• Influence of conditions on the kinetics

2) Generalities about Gas-Phase Kinetics

• Activation mode

• Molecularity – Fall off Effect

• Radical Reaction Mechanisms

3) Modeling of the oxidation of Fuels

• Oxidation Chemistry at Low and High Temperatures

• Elementary Reactions Involved in Mechanisms

• Origin of the NTC

• Estimation of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Data

• Model Performance and kinetic analysis

Time: 10.15, March 8th, 2022

Location: C330b, Kemistintie 1. Zoom meeting is available. Please join with this link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/63048326051

Duration: 50 minutes

Olivier Herbinet (male) is an Associate Professor at the University of Lorraine since 2007. He is a specialist in the use of continuous flow reactors (e.g., jet-stirred reactor and flow tube reactors) for the study of gas-phase reactions (oxidation and pyrolysis) of organic compounds, using a wide range of diagnostics from gas chromatography to mass spectrometry with ionization using synchrotron radiation. These studies led to 82 peer-reviewed publications (h-factor = 31 (WoS)).