Novel Combustion Concepts for Sustainable Energy Development

Part I: General.- Introduction.- Technical challenges and scientific approach for a sustainable energy efficient future.- Part II: Biofuels: Production, properties and applications.- Biofuels from biomass.- Biomass fuel quality enhancement and the respiratory quotient (RQ) for ranking fossil and biomass fuels based on CO2 emissions.- Effect of biodiesel utilization on tribological properties of lubricating oil in a compression ignition engine.- Hydrogen enriched syngas from biomass steam gasification for use in land based gas turbine engines.- Part III: Combustion of fuels and engine performance.- Future trends in commercial aviation engines' combustion.- Spectroscopic methods and visualization applied to combustion diagnoses.- Lean blow-out detection techniques for partially premixed flames in a dump combustor.- Fluidized bed combustion of coal, renewable fuels and waste: Current Status and Developments.- Using petroleum and biomass derived fuels in duel-fuel diesel engines.- Mixture preparation effects on distributed combustion for gas turbine application.- Flame characteristics of vaporized renewable fuels and their blends with petroleum fuels.- Process and reactor level simulations of coal-direct chemical looping combustion.- Acoustic reynolds stress: the source of coherent structures during combustion instability.- Developing surrogates for liquid transportation fuels: the role of spherically symmetric droplet combustion.- Part IV: Emissions.- Urban traffic emissions and associated environmental impacts in India.- Comparison of primary and secondary emissions from an internal combustion engine.- Emissions and soot in partially premixed combustion.-Low-emission, fuel-flexible combustion of liquid fuels.- PART V: Sustainable energy systems and efficiency improvements.- In-depth performance evaluation of RDF from landfill reclamation for green electricity generation in a downdraftgasifier.- ceramics for sustainable energy

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal is currently Poonam and Prabhu Goyal Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Prof. Agarwal was at ERC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999 - 2001). His areas of interest are engine combustion, alternative fuels, biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen, conventional fuels, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emission and particulate control, and large bore engines. Prof. Agarwal has published more than 120 peer reviewed international journal papers and 70 peer reviewed international conference papers. Prof. Agarwal is an associate editor of ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, and International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing. He is editorial board member of 'IMechE Journal of Automobile Engineering, and 'International Journal of Oil, Gas, and Coal technologies' and has edited "Handbook of Combustion" . Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of ASME in class of 2013, and Fellow of SAE International, USA in class of 2012. He is recipient of several prestigious awards such as NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012, INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005.

A.K. Gupta is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD from Sheffield University, UK and higher doctorate DSc from the University of Sheffield and also from the University of Southampton, UK. He was awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee USA and also from King Mungkut University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand that was bestowed by HRH the Queen of Thailand. He served as international consultant to the Japanese government METI for NEDO project on novel high-temperature air-combustion technology (called HiTAC). He served asDirector of Propulsion