Marsh Engineering

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Marsh Engineering offers consulting services for a variety of chemical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering applications.

Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Marsh, N. D., Zhu, D., and Wornat, M. J., “Pyrolysis Product Absorption by Burning Benzene Droplets” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 27:1897-1905 (1998).
  2. Marsh, N. D., Wornat, M. J., Scott, L. T., Necula, A., Lafleur, A. L., and Plummer, E. F., “The Identification of Ethynyl-Substituted and Cyclopenta-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Benzene Droplet Combustion Products”, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 13:379-402 (2000).
  3. Marsh, N. D., Mikolajczak, C. J., and Wornat, M. J., “The Effect of Ethynyl Substitution and Cyclopenta Fusion on the Ultraviolet Visible Absorption Spectra of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” Spectrochimica Acta A 56:1499-1511 (2000).
  4. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., “The Effect of Substituent Location on the Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of Ethynyl-Substituted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 19:263-284 (2000).
  5. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., “Formation Pathways of Ethynyl-Substituted and Cyclopenta-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 28:2585-2592 (2000).
  6. Wornat, M. J., Ledesma, E. B., and Marsh, N. D., "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Pyrolysis of Catechol (ortho-Dihydroxybenzene), a Model Fuel Representative of Entities in Tobacco, Coal, and Lignin," Fuel, 80:1711-1726 (2001).
  7. Ledesma, E. B.; Marsh, N. D.; Sandrowitz, A. K.; and Wornat, M. J., “Global Kinetic Rate Parameters for the Formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Pyrolyis of Catechol, A Model Compound Representative of Solid Fuel Moieties,” Energy & Fuels 16:1331-1336 (2002).
  8. Ledesma, E. B., Marsh, N. D., Sandrowitz, A. K., and Wornat, M. J., “An Experimental Study on the Thermal Decomposition of Catechol,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 29:2299-2306 (2002).
  9. Marsh, N. D.; Ledesma, E. B.; Sandrowitz, A. K.; and Wornat, M. J., “Yields of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Pyrolysis of Catechol [ortho-Dihydroxybenzene]: Temperature and Residence Time Effects,” Energy & Fuels 18:209-217 (2004).
  10. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., “Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Five-Membered Rings: Distributions Within Isomer Families in Experiments and Computed Equilibria,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A 108:5399-5407 (2004).
  11. Marsh, N. D., Ledesma, E. B., Wornat, M. J., Tan, M. P., Zhu, D. L., and Law, C. K., “Newly Identified Products of Benzene Droplet Combustion: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons of Three to Ten Rings,” Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 25:227-244 (2005).
  12. Yan, S., Jiang, Y. -J., Marsh, N. D., Eddings, E G., Sarofim, A. F.; and Pugmire, R. J, “Study of the Evolution of Soot from Various Fuels,” Energy and Fuels 19:1804-1811 (2005).
  13. Santamaria, A., Mondragon, F., Molina, A., Marsh, N. D., Eddings, E. G., and Sarofim, A. F., “FT-IR and 1H-NMR Characterization of the Products of an Ethylene Inverse Diffusion Flame,” Combustion and Flame 146:52-62 (2006).
  14. Marsh, N. D., Preciado, I., Eddings, E. G., Sarofim, A. F., Palotas, A. B., and Robertson, J. D., “Evaluation of Organometallic Fuel Additives for Soot Suppression,” Combustion Science and Technology 179:987-1001 (2007).
  15. Gann, R. G., Averill, J. D., Marsh, N. D., and Nyden, M. R., “Assessing the Accuracy of a Physical Fire Model for Obtaining Smoke Toxic Potency Data,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Fire Science and Engineering (Interflam 07) 1021-1032 (2007).
  16. Marsh, N. D., Gann, R. G., Averill, J. D., and Nyden, M. R., “Sensitivity of a Smoke Toxicity Test Method to Test Conditions,” Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science 687-698 (2008).
  17. Prasad, K. R., Marsh, N. D., Nyden, M. R., Ohlemiller, T. J., and Zammarano, M., “Fire Spread and Growth on Polyurethane Foam Slabs,” submitted to Fire Safety Journal (2009).
  18. Davis, W., Marsh, N. D., and Selepak, M. “Analyzing smoke alarm response to flaming fires using the fire model JET,” Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 21:141-166 (2011).
  19. Gann, R. G., Babrauskas, V., Grayson, S., and Marsh, N. D. “Hazards of Combustion Products: Toxicity, Opacity, Corrosivity, and Heat Release: The Experts' Views on Capability and Issues,” Fire and Materials 35:115-127 (2011).


NIST REPORTS

  1. Marsh, N. D., “Evaluation of Fireports and Gel Fuels” NIST Technical Note 1791 (2013).
  2. Gann, R. G., Marsh, N. D., Averill, J. D., and Nyden, M. R., “Smoke Component Yields from Bench-Scale Fire Tests: 1. NFPA 269 / ASTM E 1678,” NIST Technical Note 1760 (2013).
  3. Marsh, N. D., Gann, R. G., and Nyden, M. R., “Smoke Component Yields from Bench-scale Fire Tests: 2. ISO 19700 Controlled Equivalence Ratio Tube Furnace,” NIST Technical Note 1761 (2013).
  4. Marsh, N. D. and Gann, R. G., “Smoke Component Yields from Bench-scale Fire Tests: 3. ISO 5660-1 / ASTM E 1354 with Enclosure and Variable Oxygen Concentration,” NIST Technical Note 1762 (2013).
  5. Marsh, N. D. and Gann, R. G., “Smoke Component Yields from Bench-scale Fire Tests: 4. Comparison of Bench-scale and Full-scale Results,” NIST Technical Note 1763 (2013).


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. Marsh, N. D., Zhu, D., and Wornat, M. J., "Pyrolysis Product Absorption by Burning Benzene Droplets," Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, Boulder, Colorado, August, 1998.
  2. Marsh, N. D., Wornat, M. J., Lafleur, A. L., Plummer, E. F., Necula, A., and Scott, L. T., "The Identification of Cyclopenta-Fused and Ethynyl-Substituted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Benzene Droplet Combustion Samples," Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, Boulder, Colorado, August, 1998.
  3. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., "The Effect of Ethynyl Substitution and Cyclopenta-Fusion on the Ultraviolet-Visible Absorbance Spectra of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons," Seventeenth International Symposium on Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Bordeaux, France, October, 1999.
  4. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., "Equilibrium Distributions of Isomers: PAH Containing Five-Membered Rings," Twenty-Eighth International Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2000.
  5. Marsh, N. D., Ledesma, E. B., and Wornat, M. J., "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Products of Catechol Pyrolysis," Twenty-Eighth International Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2000.
  6. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., "Formation Pathways of Ethynyl-Substituted and Cyclopenta-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons," Twenty-Eighth International Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2000.
  7. Marsh, N. D., Ledesma, E. B., and Wornat, M. J., "PAH Products of Catechol Pyrolysis: Temperature Effects," Two-Hundred Twenty-First National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, California, April, 2001.
  8. Marsh, N. D., and Wornat, M. J., "Equilibria of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Isomers in Fuel Pyrolysis Products," Two-Hundred Twenty-First National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, California, April, 2001.
  9. Marsh, N. D., Preciado, I., Yan, S., Eddings, E. G., Sarofim, A. F., “PAH in Jet-Fuel Soot: JP-8 vs. a Surrogate Fuel and Individual Components,” 19th International Symposium on Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September, 2003.
  10. Marsh, N. D., Santamaria, A., Sarofim, A. F., and Eddings, E. G., “Characterization of Young Soot in Inverse Diffusion Flames”, Thirtieth International Symposium on Combustion, Chicago, Illinois, July, 2004.
  11. Marsh, N. D., Preciado, I., Yan, S., Eddings, E. G., and Sarofim, A. F., “Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Combustion of Liquid Jet Fuels,” Thirtieth International Symposium on Combustion, Chicago, Illinois, July, 2004.
  12. Marsh, N. D. and Cleary, T. G., “Preliminary Performance Assessment of Commercially-Available Hydrogen Sensors,” International Symposium on Materials Issues in a Hydrogen Economy, Richmond, Virginia, November, 2007.
  13. Marsh, N. D. and Cleary, T. G., “Towards a Test Method for Hydrogen Sensor Performance,” NHA Annual Hydrogen Conference 2008, Sacramento, California, March, 2008.
  14. Marsh, N. D., Gann, R. G., Averill, J. D., and Nyden, M. R., “Sensitivity of a Smoke Toxicity Test Method to Test Conditions” 9th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Karlsruhe, Germany, September, 2008.
  15. Marsh, N. D., Gann, R. G., and Nyden, M. R., “Observations on the Generation of Toxic Products in the NFPA/ISO Smoke Density Chamber,” 12th International Fire Science & Engineering Conference (INTERFLAM 2010), Nottingham, United Kingdom, July, 2010.
  16. Marsh, N. D., Gann, R. G., Shields, J. R., and Nyden, M. R. “Observations on the Generation of Toxic Products in the ISO/TS 19700 Controlled Equivalence Ratio Tube Furnace and the Controlled Atmosphere Cone Calorimeter” 13th International Conference on Fire Science and Engineering (INTERFLAM 2013), Windsor, United Kingdom, June, 2013.