Welcome to the official website of the 16th International Conference on Combustion Technologies for a Clean Environment.
The Conference will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, from May 25 to 29, 2025.
Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is built on 7 hills, surrounded by the Tagus river and a stunning coastline, and although it has more than 20 centuries of History, it is ageless. Beautiful and unexpected colourful views are found on every corner.
The conference will address topics such as combustion fundamentals, reaction kinetics, laminar and turbulent flames, computational and experimental methods, liquid and solid fuels combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, engines, gas turbines, boilers and furnaces, CO2 capture processes, pollutants emission, alternative fuels, new combustion concepts, and machine learning application to combustion processes.
The topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
• Combustion fundamentals
• Reaction kinetics
• Combustion diagnostics
• Computational methods
• Laminar flames
• Turbulent combustion
• Droplets and spray combustion
• Solid fuels combustion
• Pyrolysis and gasification
• Engines, gas turbines, boilers and furnaces
• CO2 capture and sequestration
• Pollutants formation and control
• Alternative and low-carbon fuels
• New combustion concepts
• Machine learning applications to combustion
• Detonations, fires and explosions
Venue
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Avenida Rovisco Pais
1049 - 001 Lisboa
The conference will be held in the Congress Centre located within the campus of IST, just 3 km from Lisbon International Airport. IST Congress Centre has a Main Auditorium with a capacity for 300 delegates, additional conference rooms and large halls for coffee breaks, poster sessions and exhibitions.
Committees
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Pedro Coelho
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisboa, Portugal
Roman Weber
Clausthal Technical University
Clausthal, Germany
Minghou Xu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, PR China
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Ana Filipa Ferreira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
• Miguel Mendes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
• Pedro Coelho, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Agustin Valera-Medina, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom
• Alessio Frassoldati, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
• Anders Brink, Process Chemistry Centre, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland
• Ashwani Gupta, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
• Assaad Masri, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Bénédicte Cuenot, Safran, France
• Changdong Sheng, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
• Christian Hasse, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
• Dirk Roekaerts, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
• Edgar Fernandes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
• Epaminondas Mastorakos, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Feyza Kazanç Özerinç, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A
• Jacobo Porteiro, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
• Jeroen van Oijen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Luc Vervisch, CNRS Coria, INSA de Rouen Normandie, France
• Luís Tarelho, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
• Mara de Joannon, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione IRC-CNR, Naples, Italy
• Maria Alzueta, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
• Milan Vujanović, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
• Mohy Mansour, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
• Neven Duić, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
• Nilanjan Chakraborty, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Norberto Fueyo, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
• Pascale Desgroux, CNRS, PC2A, University of Lille, France
• Peter Glarborg, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
• Philippe Dagaut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INSIS, Orléans, France
• Sudarshan Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
• Viktor Scherer, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany
• Xue-Song Bai, Lund University, Sweden
Key Dates
Extended abstract submission:
December 31st, 2024
Acceptance notification:
February 28th, 2025
Early bird registration and payment:
March 14th, 2025
Final deadline for registration and payment for authors:
March 31st, 2025
Submissions
The papers submissions will open soon.
Registration
Registration Fees
Early full registration* - 700 EUR (until March 14th, 2025)
Early student registration* - 400 EUR (until March 14th, 2025)
Full registration* - 800 EUR (after March 14th, 2025)
Student registration* - 500 EUR (after March 14th, 2025)
Accompanying persons** - to be announced
* Authors must register until 31st March to guarantee that the paper is included in the final programme.
Registration fee includes attendance to all technical sessions, the program and abstracts book, welcome reception, lunches, coffee breaks and conference banquet
One full/student registration covers a maximum of two extended abstracts/papers. Additional extended abstracts/papers must be covered by other full/student registration(s)
**Accompanying person registration fee includes welcome reception, lunches, and conference banquet
Registration
Registrations will open soon.
Cancelation
Cancellations must be made in writing to Rita Maia, email: ritamaia@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Before May 9th, 80% of the registration fee will be refunded. No refunds are possible thereafter.
All refunds will be managed after the Conference.
Programme
Conference Programme
Not available yet.
Keynote Lectures
Christian Hasse
Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Short-biography:
Prof. Hasse is head of the Institute for the Simulation of Reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems (www.stfs.tu-darmstadt.de) at Darmstadt University of Technology. From 2010-2017 he was full professor at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. From 2004-2010 he worked at BMW in engine development and exhaust aftertreatment. He received his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University in 2004 (supervisor: Norbert Peters).
Short-biography:
Prof. Hasse is head of the Institute for the Simulation of Reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems (www.stfs.tu-darmstadt.de) at Darmstadt University of Technology. From 2010-2017 he was full professor at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. From 2004-2010 he worked at BMW in engine development and exhaust aftertreatment. He received his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University in 2004 (supervisor: Norbert Peters).
He has successfully supervised 32 PhD students and currently 30 PhD students and post-docs are working in his group in Darmstadt. His main research interests are combustion theory, modeling and simulation with application to technical systems such as aero-engines, gas turbines, IC engines, furnaces, and reactors in process engineering. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is Fellow of the International Combustion Institute for his contributions to turbulent combustion, solid fuel combustion, multi-phase flows and soot formation. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Combustion Institute in 2024.
Since 2021, he is spokesperson of the collaborative research project “Clean Circles – Reactive Metals as Carbon-free Energy Carriers in a Circular Energy Economy” with more than 50 scientists. He received an ERC Advanced Grant for his proposal A-STEAM – Aluminum STEAM Combustion for Clean Energy in 2024.
Green iron and aluminum as recyclable energy carriers in circular economy - From global opportunities to solid fuel combustion physics
Green iron and aluminum as recyclable energy carriers in circular economy - From global opportunities to solid fuel combustion physics
Abstract:
The transformation to a net-zero carbon society is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Green metal fuels, produced from metal oxides using renewable energy, are emerging as a carbon-free, high energy density replacement for fossil fuels due to their availability and recyclability. Iron and aluminum in particular iron and aluminum are promising options for a carbon-free cycle since they are non-toxic, safe to transport, easy to store, abundant, and in principle can be recycled an unlimited number of times.
This plenary will deliver two key messages:
1. Iron and aluminum are promising carriers of renewable energy for a net-zero carbon society.
2. While previous work on solid carbonaceous fuels provides an excellent starting point for studying metals as energy carriers, the physics of iron and aluminum combustion is quite different, fascinating, and largely unexplored.
In the first part, iron and aluminum are introduced as a recyclable chemical energy carrier. During the reduction of metal oxides, energy from renewable sources such as wind, hydro, and solar is stored. This energy is released again through combustion in air or steam. This yields either high-temperature heat (air) or high-temperature heat and hydrogen (steam). The product of this zero-CO2 combustion process is solid metal oxide. One promising application of metals is the retrofit of existing infrastructure. This is demonstrated with a thermodynamic system analysis for a coal-fired power plant to be operated with iron powder in the future. This is followed by a techno-economic analysis, for which different partner countries for reduction and oxidation are considered. Hydrogen and iron are compared as energy carriers based on round-trip efficiency and levelized cost of electricity.
In the second part, selected experimental and numerical results on the combustion physics are presented. First, the oxidation of single iron particles is showcased, and the different phases of ignition and combustion are discussed with a special focus on the coupling of gas phase transport with the condensed phase kinetics. Similarly, the fascinating physics of aluminum-steam combustion are explored. Going towards multidimensional flames, discrete and continuous flame propagation modes are analyzed. Finally, results for turbulent iron-air flames are presented. The need for well-controlled and well-characterized experimental conditions to reduce uncertainties is demonstrated by comparison to simulation results.