Colloquia & Co-Chairs

  • REACTION KINETICS OF COMBUSTION
    including the kinetics of hydrocarbon and oxygenated fuels.

            Maria U. Alzueta, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
            Frédérique Battin-Leclerc, CNRS-Lab. Reactions et Genie des Procedes, Nancy, France
            Fokion N. Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
            Alessio Frassoldati, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • POLLUTANT FORMATION AND CONTROL
    including the physical and chemical processes affecting the formation, growth,
    and destruction of NOX, SOX, soot, PAH, dioxins, and other large molecules.

            Anna Ciajolo, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, CNR, Italy
            Mario Costa, Instituto Superior Tecnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
            Omer L. Gulder, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
            Nadia Sebbar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS
    including the development and application of diagnostics for the understanding and
    control of combustion phenomena and radiative transfer.

            Christophe Allouis, Istituto Ricerche Combustione, CNR, Naples, Italy
            Fengshan Liu, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
            Patrizio Massoli, Istituto Motori, CNR, Naples, Italy
            Frederik Ossler, Department of Physics, Lund University, Sweden

  • TURBULENT COMBUSTION
    including experiments, theory, and simulations applied to turbulent flames.

            Assaad R. Masri, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
            Epaminondas Mastorakos, University of Cambridge, UK
            Bart Merci, Ghent University, Belgium

  • HETEROGENEOUS COMBUSTION AND PYROLYSIS
    including fundamental aspects of pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion of solid fuels
    (e.g., coal, char, and biomass) as well as combustion of propellants and catalytic combustion.

            Ibrahim Gulyurtlu, LNEG, Lisboa, Portugal
            Lufei Jia, CETC-Ottawa, Canada
            Joachim Werther, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
            Franz Winter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria 

  • STATIONARY COMBUSTION SYSTEMS and ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
    including combustion in fluidized beds, incineration, utility boilers, plants and industrial applications.

            Riccardo Chirone, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, CNR,  Naples, Italy
            Emmanuel C. Kakaras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
            Wojciech Nowak, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland
            Leonardo Tognotti, Università di Pisa, Italy

  • FIRE RESEARCH
    including fundamental aspects of fires as well as applications to building construction and urban/wildland fires.

            Carlos Fernandez-Pello, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
            Eulalia Planas, Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
            Franco Tamanini, Factory Mutual, Norwood, MA, USA

  • ENGINE, GAS TURBINE AND SPRAY COMBUSTION
    including simulations and experiments and novel processes and fuels for these applications.

            Aldo Coghe, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
            Iskender Gökalp, ICARE-CNRS, Orléans, France
            Eran Sher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
            Bianca Maria Vaglieco, Istituto Motori, CNR, Italy

  • CO2 CAPTURE PROCESSES
    including oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, gasification and other novel processes.

            Edward J. Anthony, Cranfield University, UK
            Umberto Arena, Second University of Naples, Italy
            Antonio Cavaliere, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
            Bernd Epple, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
            Piero Salatino, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy