Shock Tubes laboratory

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Shock Tubes laboratory
The main objective in the development of improved combustion technologies is not only to increase efficiency and reduce pollutant emissions, but also to use alternative fuels in technical combustion processes in a cost-effective manner. The provision of secured and validated chemical model fuel reaction mechanisms is one of the central tasks of kinetics with the aim of achieving an improved computer-aided design and optimisation of technical combustion processes with conventional and alternative fuels.