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Spatial investigation of plasma emission from laminar diffusion methanol, ethanol, and n-propanol alcohol flames using LIBS method

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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique is used to record some plasma emissions of different laminar diffusion methanol, ethanol, and n-propanol alcohol flames, to investigate the shapes, structures (i.e., reactants and products zones), kind, and quality of burning in different areas. For this purpose, molecular bands of CH, CH*, C2, CN, and CO as well as atomic and ionic lines of C, H, N, and O are identified, simultaneously. Experimental results indicate that the CN and C2 emissions have highest intensity in LIBS spectrum of n-propanol flame and the lowest in methanol. In addition, lowest content of CO pollution and better quality of burning process in n-propanol fuel flame toward ethanol and methanol are confirmed by comparison between their CO molecular band intensities. Moreover, variation of the signal intensity from these three flames with that from a known area of burner plate is compared. Our findings in this research advance the prior results in time-integrated LIBS combustion application and suggesting that LIBS can be used successfully with the CCD detector as a non-gated analytical tool, given its simple instrumentation needs, real-time capability applications of molecular detection in laminar diffusion flame samples, requirements.

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Hereby, we would like to acknowledge Malek Ashtar Optics and Laser Science and Technology Research Center for supplying the equipment used in the present study.

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  1. Optics & Laser Science and Technology Research Center, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Mahsa Ghezelbash, Abdollah Eslami Majd, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Darbani, Seyyed Jabbar Mousavi & Masoud Kavosh Tehrani

  2. University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

    Seyyed Jabbar Mousavi

  3. Department of Materials Engineering, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Ali Ghasemi

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Ghezelbash, M., Majd, A.E., Darbani, S.M.R. et al. Spatial investigation of plasma emission from laminar diffusion methanol, ethanol, and n-propanol alcohol flames using LIBS method. Appl. Phys. B 123, 36 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6615-5

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