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Kinetic Studies Of Ammonia-Oxygen Flames, David Emlyn Hughes

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Since the early interest of Henry in burning ammonia with electric sparks, the literature of ammonia oxidation has been extensive. The major efforts have been industrially related and concern themselves with catalytic oxidation and its mechanism. The flame oxidation of ammonia has attracted more modest interest because of the relative poorness of ammonia as a fuel. Lunge, for example, found that an ammonia-air flame would hardly burn at room temperature and could be maintained only with constant heating. This dissertation concerns itself with the mechanism of the flame oxidation of ammonia and therefore the reactions that transform ammonia and oxygen …