
Mark Edward FullerAmogy · Research and Development
Mark Edward Fuller
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Experimental investigations (shock tube, RCM), modelling, and theoretical calculations pertaining to combustion chemistry.
Particular interest in e-/bio-derived fuels for sustainable combustion and nitrogen combustion chemistry.
Additional affiliations
July 2021 - February 2021
June 2019 - June 2021
August 2014 - May 2019
Education
August 2014 - May 2019
August 2014 - May 2015
August 2009 - May 2011
Publications
Publications (30)
The high potential of oxymethylene ethers (OMEs) and related compounds as fuels and fuel-additives motivated a multitude of experimental and theoretical investigations on, e.g., dimethoxy methane (DMM), the smallest member of the OME family. The present work adds to this research by providing combined experimental and theoretical rate coefficients...
Laminar flame speed and ignition delay time measurements are presented for blends of isopropyl-nitrate and propane. The laminar flame speeds were measured in a spherical bomb, with the majority of the experiments performed at 373 K and 1 bar, with equivalence ratios between 0.6 <ϕ< 2.1; the fuel composition was 0%, 10%, and 100% isopropyl-nitrate....
Modern engine concepts present several opportunities for nitrogen combustion chemistry, particularly the interaction of NO x (NO + NO 2 ) with fuel fragments and products of partial combustion.
stuff Introduction The presence of NO x (NO + NO 2) in hydrocarbon combustion has an ignition-promoting (reactivity-enhancing) effect: NO 2 serves to promote chain-branching by abstracting a hydrogen to form HONO or HNO 2 , both of which may then decompose to OH and NO. NO may recycle to NO 2 particularly through interactions with oxy and peroxy ra...
Oxides of nitrogen (NO, NO 2 , collectively NO x) are experimentally known to have an ignition-promoting (reactivity-enhancing) effect on combustion of hydrocarbon fuels. The mechanism by which this occurs is generally understood in that NO 2 serves to promote chain-branching by abstracting a hydrogen atom from the fuel or fuel fragments to form HO...
This article details new ignition delay time experiments carried out on blends of n-pentane and either NO or NO<sub>2</sub> in the rapid compression machine facility at RWTH Aachen University. Further, a new chemical kinetic mechanism is developed which is able to well-reproduce the experiments and significantly improve over recently published mech...
Ethyl esters are currently being investigated by the Fuel Science Center at RWTH Aachen University as bio-
derived components for fuel blends. Ethyl esters may be produced from low-grade biomass waste [1] and
may be blended either with traditional hydrocarbon fuels or with other biofuels and sustainably-produced
components.
In order to characterize...
6 Suspensions of nano-scale particles in liquids, dubbed nanofluids, are of great interest for heat transfer applications. Nanofluids potentially offer superior thermal conductivity to alternative, pure fluids and are of particular interest in applications where active cooling of power-dense systems is required. In this work, the thermophysical pro...
Alexander von Humboldt Stipendium proposal
A new shock tube has been constructed for investigations of high-temperature chemical kinetics with an emphasis on combustion chemistry. This instrument includes a diaphragmless driver and electrical control of valving. A diaphragmless design significantly improves repeatability of experimental conditions vs the use of diaphragms and leads to an ap...
The decomposition of isopropyl nitrate was measured behind incident shock waves using laser schlieren densitometry in a diaphragmless shock tube facility. Experiments were conducted over the range of 700 - 1000 K and at pressures of 71, 126, and 240 Torr. Electronic structure theory and RRKM Master Equation methods were used to predict the decompos...
This thesis describes both the design and construction of a new shock tube facility and a series of investigations, both theoretical and experimental, meant to support research into low-temperature combustion chemistry. With recent developments and interest in highly-efficient low-temperature compression ignition (LTCI) engines, a potential enablin...
The Brown shock tube (BST) is a new experimental apparatus at Brown University.
This instrument includes a diaphragmless driver and electrical control of valving.
A diaphragmless design significantly improves repeatability of experimental conditions versus the use of diaphragms and leads to an approximate order of magnitude reduction in turnaround...
This work presents a detailed investigation into the isomerization and decomposition of \ce{HONO} and \ce{HNO2}. State-of-the-art electronic structure theory is used to compute the \ce{HNO2} potential energy surface. Temperature and pressure dependent rate coefficients are computed using microcanonical rate theory and the master equation. The elect...
A detailed chemical kinetic mechanism is developed for the gas-phase combustion of a liquid monopropellant, which is a blend of propylene-glycol-dinitrate, dibutyl-sebacate, and 2-nitro-diphenylamine (Otto Fuel II). The combustor is modeled as a steady-state burner-stabilized flame. The simulations reveal that not all of the dibutyl-sebacate is con...
This work investigates whether both HONO and HNO2 are essential in describing the reactivity for NO2-doped ignition experiments or if a strategy could be developed that lumps the two isomers into a single species without adversely affecting the model fidelity. First, the possibility of different product branching fractions is considered; temperatur...
The thermal dissociations of three alkyl nitrites (C3H7ONO, n-C4H9ONO, and i-C4H9ONO) have been studied in a diaphragmless shock tube by laser schlieren densitometry over 700 < T < 1000 K and 60 < P < 250 Torr. The nitrites act as clean, thermal sources of alkyl radicals that create the radicals at much lower temperatures than are accessible with o...
In this work, NO2-doped ignition experiments are examined to determine whether both HONO and HNO2 must be treated as unique species or if an appropriate lumping strategy exists without sacrificing model fidelity.
Kinetic mechanisms are taken from literature and updated with revised rate constants for several reactions involving HONO and HNO2.
Model...
The present work uses a perturbation procedure to deduce the small perturbation differential equations for velocity, temperature, and the diffusion equation for nanoparticle volume concentration. Thermalphysical variables are obtained from conventional means (e.g., mixture and field theory estimates) for nanofluids consisting of alumina nanoparticl...
Investigations into the pyrolysis and combustion of organic nitrite species are of interest for their application as radical sources in combustion experiments, e.g. Tranter et al. (2016). The pyrolysis of n-propyl nitrite, C 3 H 7 ONO, is investigated by laser schlieren densitometry behind the incident shock wave in a diaphragmless shock tube at pr...
Design and operation of the Brown (University) shock tube. This apparatus features a diaphragmless driver section and both laser schlieren densitometry and laser absorption optical diagnostics.
The continuum formulation is applied to the developing boundary layer problem, which approximates the entrance region of nanofluid flow in micro channels or tubes. The thermophysical properties are expressed as "equations of state" as functions of the local nanofluid volume fraction. Based on experimental utilization of nanofluid prevalently at sma...
Estimation of collisional energy transfer for methane in nitrogen bath gas via averaging of molecular dynamics simulations computed using ReaxFF reactive forcefields.
A battery discharge model is developed to predict terminal voltage and current for a constant-power discharge. The model accounts for the impact of discharge rate on the effective capacity. The model utilizes empirically-determined coefficients, easily obtainable from product data sheets. The model is intended to provide estimates for initial predi...
The following paper discusses the emissions monitoring system to be applied to a solid biomass burner. Discussion includes description of the experimental apparatus, description and justification of pollutants to be monitored, and collection and analysis techniques for those pollutants. Preliminary experimental data is presented. Introduction This...