autothermal

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ thermal

Adjective

autothermal (not comparable)

1. That is heated by the combustion of its own products
   • 2016, Marm Dixit, Renika Baruah, Dhrupad Parikh, Sudhanshu Sharma, Atul Bhargav, “Autothermal Reforming of Methane on Rhodium Catalysts: Microkinetic Analysis for Model Reduction”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Methane autothermal reforming has been studied using comprehensive, detailed microkinetic mechanisms, and a hierarchically reduced rate expression has been derived without apriori assumptions.