The goal of this paper is to contribute to the design of high-performance mesocombustors, a field currently under rapid development, in particular for propulsion, e.g., for UAVs, and micro/meso-electrical power generators. This study is focused on a cylindrical combustor of 29 cm³, fuelled by...

A lumped kinetic model of methyl butanoate pyrolysis and oxidation is presented and discussed in this work. The hierarchical approach first required the development and validation of sub-mechanisms of small esters such as methyl formate, methyl acrylate and methyl crotonate. A broad-ranging...

A study of the pyrolysis of methane mixtures in a laboratory reactor, exploring the influence of the bath gas used (N2 and CO2) and the presence of small amounts of ethane to simulate natural gas, has been carried out at atmospheric pressure and the 1250–1500 K temperature range. Exhaust...