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  2. Combustion - Wikipedia

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    The flames caused as a result of a fuel undergoing combustion (burning) Air pollution abatement equipment provides combustion control for industrial processes.. Combustion, or burning, [1] is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.

  3. Alkane - Wikipedia

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    Alkanes have the general chemical formula C n H 2n+2. The alkanes range in complexity from the simplest case of methane (CH 4), where n = 1 (sometimes called the parent molecule), to arbitrarily large and complex molecules, like pentacontane (C 50 H 102) or 6-ethyl-2-methyl-5-(1-methylethyl) octane, an isomer of tetradecane (C 14 H 30).

  4. Hydrocarbon - Wikipedia

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    The formula for acyclic saturated hydrocarbons (i.e., alkanes) is C n H 2n+2. [1]: 623 The most general form of saturated hydrocarbons, (whether linear or branched species, and whether with or without one or more rings) is C n H 2n+2(1-r), where r is the number of rings. Those with exactly one ring are the cycloalkanes.

  5. Isomerization - Wikipedia

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    Enolization is an example of isomerization, as is tautomerization. [2] When the isomerization occurs intramolecularly it may be called a rearrangement reaction. [citation needed] When the activation energy for the isomerization reaction is sufficiently small, both isomers will exist in a temperature-dependent equilibrium with each other.

  6. Pentane - Wikipedia

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    Pentane is an organic compound with the formula C 5 H 12 —that is, an alkane with five carbon atoms. The term may refer to any of three structural isomers, or to a mixture of them: in the IUPAC nomenclature, however, pentane means exclusively the n-pentane isomer, in which case pentanes refers to a mixture of them; the other two are called isopentane (methylbutane) and neopentane ...

  7. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon - Wikipedia

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    A Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a class of organic compounds that is composed of multiple aromatic rings.Most are produced by the incomplete combustion of organic matter— by engine exhaust fumes, tobacco, incinerators, in roasted meats and cereals, [1] or when biomass burns at lower temperatures as in forest fires.

  8. Dehydrogenation - Wikipedia

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    Alkenes are precursors to aldehydes (R−CH=O), alcohols (R−OH), polymers, and aromatics. [1] As a problematic reaction, the fouling and inactivation of many catalysts arises via coking, which is the dehydrogenative polymerization of organic substrates. [2] Enzymes that catalyze dehydrogenation are called dehydrogenases.

  9. Decane - Wikipedia

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    Decane undergoes combustion, just like other alkanes. In the presence of sufficient oxygen, it burns to form water and carbon dioxide. 2 C 10 H 22 + 31 O 2 → 20 CO 2 + 22 H 2 O. With insufficient oxygen, carbon monoxide is also formed. It can be manufactured in the laboratory without fossil fuels. [9]