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Soot formation in combustion processes (review)

Z. A. Mansurov

Al-Farabi Kazakh National State University, Almaty, 480078, Kazakhstan

Abstract: A review is given of recent papers on the phenomenology, kinetics, and mechanism of soot formation in hydrocarbon combustion; the effects of various factors on the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fullerenes, and soot, low-temperature soot formation in cool flames, combustion in electric field, and the paramagnetism of soot particles from an ecological viewpoint are considered.

Keywords: soot formation, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fullerenes, combustion, nanocarbon tubes.

UDC: 536.46

Received: 19.04.2005

 English version: Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves, 2005, 41:6, 727–744

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