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Darío López-Pintor

Sandia National Laboratories

P.O. Box 969

Livermore, CA 94551

United States

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (10)

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1.

A Methodology to Replicate Ltgc Engine Conditions in a Single-Zone Model and Validate Gasoline Surrogate Formulations Versus Experimental Measurements

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Jun 2024
Sanguk Lee and Darío López-Pintor
Sandia National Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories
Downloads 46 (1,109,210)

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Surrogate Fuels, HCCI, LTGC, CHEMKIN, Autoignition Reactivity

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Fuel Effects on Soot-Emission Trends from a Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition Engine under Lean Stratified-Charge Operation

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Oct 2025
Namho Kim, Sanguk Lee, Darío López-Pintor and Magnus Sjöberg
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 39 (1,196,171)

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Stratified-charged combustion, Soot, Fuel film, Particulate Matter Index

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Effect of Operating Conditions on Soot-Formation Pathways in an Optical Direct-Injection Gasoline Engine

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Jun 2024
Rami Abboud, Eshan Singh, Darío López-Pintor, Magnus Sjöberg, Raul Payri and J. Javier López
Universitat de València, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Sandia National Laboratories, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Polytechnic University of Valencia - Department of Thermal Engines and Machines and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 39 (1,196,171)

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Direct-injection spark-ignition engine, soot pathways, injector tip wetting, optical diagnostics.

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Fuel Composition Effects on Particulate Formation from GDI Spray Collapse during Engine Warm Up

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 May 2026
Sanguk Lee, Darío López-Pintor, Lyle M. Pickett, Gina Fioroni, Nimal Naser, Junqing Zhu and Gregory Lilik
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, National Laboratory of the Rockies, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Yale University and ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Downloads 32 (1,345,526)

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Spray collapse, soot, Fuel film, Optical diagnostics

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Formation of Ch2o and Uhc Emissions During Catalyst-Heating Operation in Compression Ignition Engines: High-Speed Fid and Mid-Ir Extinction Diagnostics

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Nov 2022
Seokwon Cho, Angela Wu, Namho Kim, Stephen Busch and Darío López-Pintor
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Sandia National Laboratories
Downloads 32 (1,290,922)

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Catalyst-heating operation, compression ignition, formaldehyde, unburned hydrocarbon, laser extinction diagnostics

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Effect of Dibutyl Ether - Methanol Blend Ratio on Deflagration and Autoignition Based Knock in Spark-Ignition Engines

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Feb 2024
Eshan Singh, Rami Abboud, Tyler Strickland, Namho Kim, Darío López-Pintor and Magnus Sjoberg
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Universitat de València, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Sandia National Laboratories and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 30 (1,318,317)

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knock, renewable fuels, direct injection spark ignition engines, Deflagration, autoignition, Methanol

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Performance of Octane Index in Ltgc Engines from Beyond Mon to Beyond Ron

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Oct 2022
Darío López-Pintor, John Dec and Seokwon Cho
Sandia National Laboratories, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Octane index, LTGC, RON, MON, autoignition, gasoline surrogate

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Modeling Fuel Effects on Aero Engine Out Gas Phase and Soot Emissions

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 05 Mar 2026
Zuhayr Pasha Mohammed, Darío López-Pintor, James MacDonald, Subith Vasu, Elkin Ramirez-Correa, Jose M. Garcia-Oliver and Pénélope Leyland
University of Central Florida, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, University of Central Florida, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 24 (1,448,301)

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Synthetic Aviation Turbine Fuels, Jet A, Surface chemistry, Soot, emissions, Sulfuric Acid

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­A Chemical Kinetic Analysis of Knock Propensity of Methanol-to-Gasoline Fuel

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Jul 2024
James MacDonald, Darío López-Pintor, Naoyoshi Matsubara, Koji Kitano and Ryota Yamada
Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation
Downloads 24 (1,399,036)

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Methanol-to-gasoline, MTG, knock propensity, autoignition, chemical kinetics, gasoline surrogate

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A General Predictive Methodology for Fuel-Mixture Properties Up to Supercritical Conditions

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 May 2023
Evangelos Maximilian Geber, Carlos Rodriguez Fernandez, Ioannis Karathanassis, Darío López-Pintor, Julien Manin, Lyle M. Pickett and Manolis Gavaises
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 21 (1,448,301)
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PC-SAFT, Vapor-liquid equilibria, fuel surrogates, multicomponent, group contribution theory