Understanding how electric fields make flames cleaner could improve power stations

A study of the combustion of methane and the compounds formed when it burns could lead the development of cleaner gas turbines for power stations, according to researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
The flat flame used for the KAUST team’s studyBurning hydrocarbons is a more complex process than it seems. If combustion is complete, then the products are carbon dioxide and water vapour, which may be undesirable in the atmosphere but are at least well unders