Small ester combustion chemistry: Computational kinetics and experimental study of methyl acetate and ethyl acetate

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The authors at KAUST acknowledge funding support from the Office of Sponsored Research under the Future Fuels Program. The authors at NUI Galway recognize funding support from Science Foundation Ireland via their Principal Investigator Program through project number 15/IA/3177. Cavallotti acknowledges the financial support of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division of Argonne National Laboratories for his sabbatical. The work by authors at LLNL was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 and was conducted as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies and Vehicle Technologies Offices. The authors at Lund University acknowledge financial support from the Centre for Combustion Science and Technology (CECOST), and Swedish Research Council (VR) via project 2015-04042. Part of this material is based on work at Argonne supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The NREL research was conducted as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies and Vehicle Technologies Offices.