Flame-Material Interactions – Nanostructure and Surface Chemistry of Soot from Diesel Combustion
Students: Juhun Song, Khalid Al-Qurashi, Christine Esangbedo
Sponsors: Various
Faculty: Prof. Joseph Perez, Department of Chemical Engineering Prof. Andr‚ Boehman, Department of Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering
Objective: To understand the relationship between fuel, combustion conditions and the morphology and chemistry of diesel soot.
Approach: This work relies on the application of thermophoretic sampling from diesel exhaust to collect individual particulates on a transmission electron microscope sample holder (a TEM grid), and subsequent characterization of the macrostructure and nanostructure of the aggregate and primary particles via TEM and high resolution TEM. These individual particle results are confirmed by bulk structural and chemical analyses via XRD, Raman spectroscopy, and thermal analyses.
Results: Unique observations of the variation of nanostructure of diesel particulates with different diesel fuels.
Publications: Song, J., M. Alam, A. L. Boehman and K. Miller. Characterization of Diesel and Biodiesel Soot. In ACS Fuel Chemistry Division Preprints, 49(2), 767-769 (2004)
| Time | BP-15 Soot | BP-20 Soot |
| No Burn-Off |  |  |
| After 30 @ 500C |  |  |