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The Radiative Properties of Soot Agglomerates

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Book cover Heat Transfer in Radiating and Combusting Systems

Part of the book series: EUROTHERM Seminars ((EUROTHERM,volume 17))

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Soot particle sizing and density measurement by laser light scattering has been reformulated to take into account non-spherical shape effects. By assuming a morphology consisting of chains of monomer spheroids, and the concepts of fractal theory, it has been possible to set up extinction and multiangle scattering measurements which make it possible to determine the structural parameters of such clusters. This permits more realistic calculations of soot radiative properties, and puts soot sizing/density measurements on a better basis. Experiments performed in an ethylene-air slot burner yield credible cluster parameters using this approach.

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico Secção de Termodinâmica Aplicada, Technical University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1096, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    Maria da Graça Carvalho

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, SW7 2BX, London, UK

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  3. Laboratoire E.M.2.C. UPR 288, École Centrale de Paris, 92295, Chatenay Malabry Cedex, France

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Bonczyk, P.A., Hall, R.J. (1991). The Radiative Properties of Soot Agglomerates. In: da Graça Carvalho, M., Lockwood, F.C., Taine, J. (eds) Heat Transfer in Radiating and Combusting Systems. EUROTHERM Seminars, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84637-3_13

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