Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2017
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.08.073
Abstract
The carbonaceous matter (soot plus organic carbon) sampled downstream of an ethylene inverse diffusion flame (IDF) was chemically and spectroscopically analyzed in detail. In particular, the H/C ratio, the UV-Visible absorption coefficient and Raman parameters were measured and found to be representative of a highly disordered sp2 -rich carbon as the early soot sampled in a premixed flame. In contrast, the optical band gap was found to be relatively low (0.7eV), closer to the optical band gap of graphite than to that of medium-sized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (>2eV) which are widely considered to be soot precursors and are mostly contained in the organic carbon. The significance of the optical band gap as signature of different structural levels (nano-, micro- and macro-structure) of sp2 -rich aromatic disordered carbons was critically analyzed in reference to their molecular weight/size distribution. The relevance of the optical band analysis to the study of the soot formation mechanism was also highlighted.
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Publication Information
Russo, C.; Apicella, B.; Lighty, J. S.; Ciajolo, A.; and Tregrossi, A. (2017). "Optical Properties of Organic Carbon and Soot Produced in an Inverse Diffusion Flame". Carbon, 124, 372-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.08.073
