“…Although much research has been carried out in the general field of combustion this has usually involved fired engines (e.g, Rassweiler and Withrow, 1933;Lovell et al, 1934;Rifkin et aI., 1952;Cornelius and Caplan, 1952;Rifkin, 1954 andBowditch andStebar, 1958), or conventional laboratory work using small static unstirred reactors (e.g. Bone and Hill, 1930;Townend et al, 1934;Prettre, 1949;Johnson et al, 1953 andWestbrook et al, 1988) or continuous flow systems (Cullis and Hinshelwood, 1949;Malmberg and Babbitt, 1955;Salooja, 1960;Cartlidge and Tipper, 1961;Sahetchian et aI., 1979 andGokalp et al, 1981).…”