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most citedIron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants

165 citations · 446 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.flu-dyn2025

Spray flamelet structures in a tubular counterflow configuration

Francisco Rivadeneira, Felipe Huenchuguala, Arne Scholtissek +3

In this work, spray flamelet structures subject to curvature are systematically studied, emphasizing the ways in which this quantity modifies the budgets of the corresponding flame…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Solutions of the spray flamelet equations in a non-monotonic mixture fraction space

Felipe Huenchuguala, Luis Fuenzalida, Oscar Orellana +4

Solving the spray flamelet equations in composition space is very challenging, which is attributable to the fact that the maximum value of the mixture fraction, , i…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Unsteady solutions of the spray flamelet equations

Felipe Huenchuguala, Francisco Rivadeneira, Arne Scholtissek +3

Solutions of the spray flamelet equations reported in the literature during the last decade have been limited to very specific situations presenting steady evaporation profiles onl…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Numerical Analysis of the Stability of Iron Dust Bunsen Flames

Thijs Hazenberg, Daniel Braig, Johannes Mich +2

This article presents numerical simulations of the response of an iron dust Bunsen flame to particle seeding changes. A validated numerical model is used to study the impact of par…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Analyzing Iron Dust Bunsen Flames using Numerical Simulations

Thijs Hazenberg, Danial Braig, Michal A. Fedoryk +7

This article presents numerical simulations of an iron dust Bunsen flame. The results are validated against experimental results. The burning velocity is extracted from the 3D simu…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Critical nanoparticle formation in iron combustion: single particle experiments with in-situ multi-parameter diagnostics aided by multi-scale simulations

Tao Li, Bich-Diep Nguyen, Yawei Gao +6

The formation of iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs) presents challenges such as efficiency losses and fine dust emissions in practical iron combustion systems, highlighting the need fo…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 2 cited

Advantages of the adoption of a generalized flame displacement velocity as a central element of flamelet theory

Hernan Olguin, Pascale Domingo, Luc Vervisch +2

In combustion theory, flames are usually described in terms of the dynamics of iso-surfaces of a specific scalar. The flame displacement speed is then introduced as a local variabl…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 3 cited

On the closure of curvature in 2D flamelet theory

Hernan Olguin, Pascale Domingo, Luc Vervisch +2

So far, flamelet theory has treated curvature as an independent parameter requiring specific means for closure. In this work, it is shown how the adoption of a two-dimensional orth…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 24 cited

Carrier-phase DNS of ignition and combustion of iron particles in a turbulent mixing layer

Tien Duc Luu, Ali Shamooni, Andreas Kronenburg +9

Three-dimensional CP-DNS of reacting iron particle dust clouds in a turbulent mixing layer are conducted. The simulation approach considers the Eulerian transport equations for the…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 26 cited

Can flamelet manifolds capture the interactions of thermo-diffusive instabilities and turbulence in lean hydrogen flames? -- An a-priori analysis

Hannes Böttler, Driss Kaddar, Federica Ferraro +3

Flamelet-based methods are extensively used in modeling turbulent hydrocarbon flames. However, these models have yet to be established for (lean) premixed hydrogen flames. While fl…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 11 cited

Dynamic stabilization of a hydrogen premixed flame in a narrow channel

Faizan Habib Vance, Arne Scholtissek, Philip de Goey +2

Combustion of hydrogen can help in reducing carbon-based emissions but it also poses unique challenges related to the high flame speed and Lewis number effects of the hydrogen flam…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 12 cited

Application of dense neural networks for manifold-based modeling of flame-wall interactions

Julian Bissantz, Jeremy Karpowski, Matthias Steinhausen +5

Artifical neural networks (ANNs) are universal approximators capable of learning any correlation between arbitrary input data with corresponding outputs, which can also be exploite…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

A comparison of mechanistic models for the combustion of iron microparticles and their application to polydisperse iron-air suspensions

Johannes Mich, Daniel Braig, Tobias Gustmann +2

Metals can serve as carbon-free energy carriers, e. g. in innovative metal-metal oxide cycles as proposed by Bergthorson (Prog. Energy Combust. Sci., 2018). Iron powder is a suitab…

eess.SY2023★ 79 cited

The potential of retrofitting existing coal power plants: a case study for operation with green iron

Johannes Janicka, Paulo Debiagi, Arne Scholtissek +5

Storing electrical energy for long periods and transporting it over long distances is an essential task of the necessary transition to a CO-free energy economy. An oxidation-re…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 3 cited

Techno-economic assessment of long-distance supply chains of energy carriers: Comparing hydrogen and iron for carbon-free electricity generation

Jannik Neumann, Rodolfo Cavaliere Da Rocha, Paulo Debiagi +4

Effective usage of renewable energy requires ways of storage and delivery to balance energy demand and availability divergences. Carbon-free chemical energy carriers are proposed s…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 39 cited

Flamelet modeling of thermo-diffusively unstable hydrogen-air flames

Hannes Böttler, Haris Lulic, Matthias Steinhausen +3

In order to reduce CO2 emissions, hydrogen combustion has become increasingly relevant for technical applications. In this context, lean H2-air flames show promising features but,…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 32 cited

Numerical modeling of pulverized iron flames in a multidimensional hot counterflow burner

Xu Wen, Arne Scholtissek, Jeroen van Oijen +2

Pulverized iron flames stabilized in a multidimensional hot counterflow burner are simulated using a numerical model, which is extended from the state-of-the-art model developed by…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 16 cited

Effect of flame retardants on side-wall quenching of partially premixed laminar flames

Matthias Steinhausen, Federica Ferraro, Max Schneider +5

A combined experimental and numerical investigation of partially premixed laminar methane-air flames undergoing side-wall quenching (SWQ) is performed. A well-established SWQ burne…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 32 cited

Flame-vortex interaction during turbulent side-wall quenching and its implications for flamelet manifolds

Matthias Steinhausen, Thorsten Zirwes, Federica Ferraro +3

In this study, the thermochemical state during turbulent flame-wall interaction of a stoichiometric methane-air flame is investigated using a fully resolved simulation with detaile…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 165 cited

Iron as a sustainable chemical carrier of renewable energy: Analysis of opportunities and challenges for retrofitting coal-fired power plants

Paulo Debiagi, Rodolfo Cavaliere da Rocha, Arne Scholtissek +2

As a result of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), several countries committed to phasing down coal electricity as soon as possible, deactivating hundreds of…