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PLENARY LECTURES

• Combustion Technology Developments in Combined Cycles Power Generation in Response to Environmental Challenges
• Turbulent Premixed and Partially Premixed Combustion Diagnostics Based on Advanced Laser Techniques
• Atomization and Combustion in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Microengines
• Operation Optimization of Industrial Combustion Equipment Based on Model Based Control
• Recent Developments in Pollution Control in IC Engines
• NO-Char Kinetics: Implementation to NOx Emmissions
• Partical Comminution Phenomena in the FB Combustion of Non Fossil Fuels
• Applications of Combustion Theory
• Premixed Turbulent Combustion: Numerous Basic Questions but a Few Answers
• Transient Filtration Combustion
• Numerical Simulation of Reacting Shear Flows, Fundamentals and Applications
• Fractal Characteristics and Surface Density of Flame Fronts in Turbulent Premixed Combustion
• Sulphur Capture in FBC Boilers
• Laser-Based Spectroscopic Diagnostics for Combustion Studies
• Coal Char Combustion: Where and How is the Chemistry Important?
• Characteristics of Oxidic Nano-Particals Produced in Doped Low Pressure H₂/O₂/Ar Flames

SESSION 1: STATIONARY SPRAYS AND GAS COMBUSTION SYSTEMS

• Ignition of a Blended Fuel Droplet by a Propagating Laminar Flame
• Microgravity Ignition Experiment on a Droplet Array in High-Temperature Low-Speed Air Flow
• Soot Diffusive Transport Effects Affecting Soot Shell Formation in Droplet Combustion
• Study of Injection Typology on Turbulent Homogeneous Mixing in a Natural Gas Swirl Burner
• Heat and Mass Transfer Mechanism as the Source of Laminar Spray Flame Position Oscillation
• Shock Tube Combustion of Liquid Hydrocarbon Sprays of Toluene
• A Concentric Flow with Conical Nozzle Burner for Highly Stabilized Partially Premixed Flames
• Unsteady Effects in Droplet Vaporization Lifetimes at Subcritical and Supercritical Conditions
• Mild Combustion: Process Features and Technological Constraints
• Characterization of Stability Regimes of Electrohydrodynamically Enhanced Atomization
• On the Limits of Industrial Premixed Combustion Simulation Models
• Heat Transfer Augmentation in a Concentric Annular Swirling Turbulent Flow

SESSION 2: POLLUTANTS

• Investigations of NOx-Reduction in the Exhaust of Diesel Engines by Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) with Urea
• NO Formation Rates for Hydrogen-Air Combustion in Stirred Reactor
• Soot Formation During Pyrolysis of the Aromatic Hydrocarbon Mixtures and These Mixtures with Acetylene
• NOx Emission Prediction from 3-D Complete Modeling to Reactor Network Analysis
• Modeling of Soot Formation in Turbulent Methane/Air Diffusion Flames
• Stochastic Simulation of NO Formation in Lean Premixed Methane Flames
• Correlations of Spectroscopic Properties with the Chemical Composition of Flame-Formed Aromatic Mixtures
• On-Line Measurements of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) in Counter-Flow Ethylene Diffusion Flame
• Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Means of Suitable Predrying of Moisture Fuels
• Soot Catalytic Combustion in the Presence of NO
• Time Resolved Laser Induced Incandescence for Soot and Cenospheses Measurements in Oil Flames
• Study of Mercury Absorption and Desorption on Sulphur Inpregnated Carbon
• CO-Ferrierite Catalyst for NOx Reduction with Methane in the Presence of Oxygen

SESSION 3: OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER

• A Precise Calibration Technique for Measuring High Gas Temperatures
• Investigation of Radiative Heat Transfer in Free Board of a 0.3 MWt AFBC Test Rig
• A Radiation Model for the Numerical Simulation of Coal-Fired Furnaces Using Body-Fitted Grids
• Performance of Discrete Ordinates Method in a Gas Turbine Combustor Simulator
• Modeling of Optical Properties for Combustion Systems

SESSION 4: KINETICS

• Initiation of Premixed Flames in H₂-Air-H₂O Mixtures
• Flame Structure Studies of Several Premixed Ethylene-Oxygen-Argon Flames at Equivalence Ratios from 1.00 to 2.00
• Upper Limit Rate Constants for the Reactions of NH and NH₂ Radicals with N₂O Derived from the Kinetic Modeling of Hydrogen Oxidation by Nitrous Oxide
• Pyrolysis and Oxidation of Unsaturated C2 and C3 Species
• The Prediction of Char Combustion Kinetics at High Temperature

SESSION 5: COMBUSTION OF SOLID FUELS: HF, FBC AND WASTE

• Possible Causes of the Variability of FBC Ash Behavior
• Assessment of Catalyst Deactivation Model for Sulphur Retention in Fluidized Bed Combustors
• Computational Modeling of Combustion Instability in Bagasse Fired Furnaces
• Thermal Annealing of Chars from Diverse Organic Precursors Under Combustion-Like Conditions
• Utilization of Different Biomass Types Through Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion
• Evolution of Reactivity of Highly Porous Chars from Raman Microprobe Spectrometry
• Investigation of Combustion of Coal Briquettes in a Fluidized Bed Reactor
• Surface Area Evolution of Tarfaya Oil Shale Particles during Fluidization Combustion
• Sound-Assisted Fluidized Bed Combustion of Fine Particles
• On the Application of Different Turbulence Models for the Computation of Fluid Flow and Combustion Processes in Small Scale Wood Heaters
• The Combustion of Coal Blends in a Fluidized Bed Reactor

SESSION 6: FLAME DYNAMICS AND TURBULENCE

• Validation of Model Based Active Control of Combustion Instability
• Level-Set Flamelet Library Approach for Premixed Turbulent Combustion
• Turbulent Flames in Lean H₂-Air-CO₂ Mixtures
• Experimental Characterization of the a-Parameter in Turbulent Scalar Flux for Premixed Combustion
• The Influence of Body-Force Instability on the Temporal Motion of Cellular Flame Fronts at Low Lewis Numbers
• Effects of an Electric Field on Methane-Air Flames
• Burning Velocity at Strong Turbulence: Role of Flame Geometry and Transient Effects
• Laminar Burning Velocity of Hydrogen-Air Premixed flames at Elevated Pressure
• A Flamelet Model for Premixed Methane-Air Flames
• Statistics of Flame Displacement Speed from Experimental Study of Freely-Propagating Premixed Turbulent Flames at Various Lewis Numbers
• Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Multiple Rectangular Jets

SESSION 7: FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS

• Ignition by Laser-Irradiated Surfaces
• A Multiphase Modeling of Reverse Combustion in a Fuel Bed
• The Effect of Oxygen Concentration on the Ignition of Smolder of Polyurethane Foam
• Ignition Signatures of a Downward Smolder Reaction
• Extinction Limits of Opposed Jet Turbulent Premixed Methane-Air Flames with Sprays of Water and NaCl-Water Solution
• Effect of Pile Height on Spontaneous Heating of Coal Stockpiles
• Preliminary Experimental Investigation of the Pressure Evolution in Detonation Cells
• The Prediction of Turbulent Flame Acceleration in Obstacle Filled Tubes
• Numerical Study of Unsteady Behavior of a Buoyant Fire
• CFD Analysis of Gas Explosions in Tunnels
• Fire Initiation and Spread in Overloaded Communication System Cable Trays
• Combustion Behavior of Stratified Propane/Air Layers Simulation Flammable Liquid Spills
• Experimental and Numerical Study on Flammability Limits of Gaseous Mixtures in Porous Media

SESSION 8: INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES

• Prediction of In-Cylinder Turbulence for IC Engines
• Performance Variation of a Low-Heat Rejection Diesel Engine
• A Simplified Fuel Spray Model for Indirect Injection Diesel Engine
• Fuel Composition Effects on Particulate Formation in a Divided Chamber Diesel System

POSTER SESSIONS

• Determination of soot spherule diameter, aggregate size, and number density from two-angle scattering experiments
• Flame emmissivity of heavy liquid fuel
• Optimization of primary zone of jet engine annular combustor using optical diagnostics
• Fast Spectroscopic and Schileren Investigations of the Initiation of Combustion in Ethylene/Oxygen/Argon Mixtures in Shock Waves

• NOx and co emmisions of methane/air combustion waves in an inert packed bed
• The fate of nitrogen from gasification of biomass a plug flow modeling study of the homogeneous reactors
• Combustion of gaseous fuels in a bubbling fluidized bed
• Reduction of nox emissions from gas turbine using internal exhaust recirculation
• The investigation of paramagnetism of soot particles in propane-oxygen flames
• The effect of brown coal quality variations on combustion and environmental emissions

• Flame front localization in disk-type filtration burner under intense external heat losses conditions
• Vaporization of bi-component small single droplets
• Image velocimetry for investigation of oscillating heat release
• The multicomponent spray lagrangian dynamic equation - solution procedure for evaporation and coalescence

• Effect of compression ratio on reaction mechanisms related to knock in SI engines
• A turbulent combustion model for a stratified cherge, spark ignited, internal combustion engine
• Experimental large scale simulation of mixing of the gaseous fuel jet with air
• Modeling of in-cylinder oxidation of piston-crevice hydrocarbon in a si engine

• Testing of supersonic combustion of solid fuels
• Oscillatory combustion effect on wall heat transfer
• Shock initiation of detonation - one dimensional numerical simulation with detailed chemistry
• Evaluation of the flamelet combustion model by the experimental turbulent non-premixed propane/air flame data
• Measurement of a 3-D (gas and liquid) flow structures generated by a spreading flame over n-butanol
• Analysis of flow/heat transfer coupling to regulate the solid fuel burning rate in a ramjet combustor
• The Statistical Model for Conditional Dissipation Rate of Scalar Turbulent Fluctuation Intensity

• Ring expansion in methylenpyrrole radical. Quantum chemical, RRKM and model calculations
• A reduced mechanism using ILDM and neural network for DME combustion in a small CIDI engine
• Two-dimensional numerical simulation of catalytic oxidation of methane-air mixture
• Determination of reaction kinetics data from thermodynamic measurements of catalysed composite propellants
• Kinetic effects in soot shell formation during the combustion of hydrocarbon fuel droplets
• Metal vaporization during coal devolatilization
• Shock Tube Kinetics of Some Precursor Reactions for Ceramic Processing

• Influence process parameters on gas-phase chlorine in fbc postcombustion zones - a kinetic modeling study with regard to PCDD/F emissions
• Behaviour of aluminum particles during heating in oxidative and inert atmospheres
• The study of mechanism of action of MoO3 and Sb2O3 on fire properties of the unsaturated polyester resins
• Evaluation of the abrasion characteristics of piping materials for use within the bed of pressurized fluid bed boilers
• Analysis of ablation characteristics of elastomeric materials exposed to high pressure and high temperature combustion gases

• Diffusion flame spreading over solid fuels
• Numerical simulation of deflagration to detonation transition (DDT)
• Suppression of Dust Explosions by Means of Different Extinguishing Materials