The book contains 128 revised, edited and formatted condensed papers written by international experts from 17 countries on combustion science and technology and physical chemistry of atmospheric pollution. The book provides a quick overview of the state-of-the-art in these intrinsically interrelated disciplines. The contributions were presented in two parts:
(1) Combustion Science and Technology; and
(2) Pollutants and Environment
The contents of the book include fundamentals of combustion in propulsion devices, ground transportation engines, and stationary power plants with an emphasis on emission problems and pollutant formation chemistry, in particular, formation of soot, chemi-ions, sulfur- and nitrogen-containing species and polycyclic aromatics, physics and chemistry of exhaust-related clusters and aerosols including liquid aerosols, ice particulates, and charged particles, and asssessment of the accompanying environmental effects.
The subject matter of the book has been collected from the material submitted to the International Symposium on Combustion and Atmospheric Pollution, dedicated to the memory of N. N. Semenov, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 8-11, 2003.
The volume will be useful for practicing engineers, research scientists working in the field of combustion, propulsion, and atmospheric chemistry, experts in environmental protection and safety, and can serve as a reference book for graduate studies in combustion science and technology.