Invited Speakers -1st ERCOFTAC Conference - Simulation of Multiphase Flows in Gasification and Combustion

Invited Speakers

Prof. Henning Bockhorn
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Engler-Bunte-Institut - Verbrennungstechnik
Germany

Simulation of Soot in Combustion Systems: Black Magic or Knowledge-based Modeling

Dr. Henning Bockhorn is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Combustion Technology. He is director of the Section of Combustion Technology at the Engler-Bunte-Institute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He is also chairman of the collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 606: Instationary combustion - Transportation Phenomena, Chemical Reaction, Technical Systems.

His main areas of expertise are: Reactive, laminar and turbulent flows and combustion, High temperature reactions in homogeneous or two-phase systems and Mathematical modeling: complex chemical reaction systems and turbulence-chemistry-mixing interactions in reacting flows

After a post-doctorate at the University Heidelberg he spent a year as Visiting Scientist at the University of Cambridge, England. On his return he became Professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and left in 1991 to become full Professor for Chemical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 1995 he was director of the Institute of Chemical Technology in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). Since October 1998 he simultaneously occupied the position of the director of the Division of Combustion Technology at the Engler-Bunte-Institute in the faculty of Chemical Engineering.

Prof. Julien Reveillon
University of Rouen

France

Towards fully coupled modeling of liquid atomization and dispersed spray combustion

Julien Reveillon is Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Rouen and he conducts research at CORIA laboratory, a CNRS facility dedicated to energy research and related topics.
Julien's main areas of study are two-phase flows and combustion phenomena. He carries out direct numerical simulation (DNS) analysis of liquid atomization, dispersion and evaporation that leads to mixture ignition and flame propagation. Julien uses various numerical tools and focuses on the links between Eulerian and Lagrangian modeling of the liquid phase and on the junction of dense and dispersed flows from a modeling point of view.
Creation processes and how they act in various domains also interest Julien: research, art, etc. He teaches in the science department but also in humanities and he also engages in popularizing science and research through various lectures and conferences.
Julien graduated in 1993 before completing, in 1996 a Phd, from the University of Rouen, dedicated to large eddy simulation of reactive flows. After a post-doctoral year at University of Cambridge, UK, where he began his work on two-phase flows, he joined CORIA in 1998.

Prof. Ashwani K. Gupta
University of Maryland
Department of Mechanical Engineering
USA

Benchmark experiments for gasification modeling

Professor Ashwani K. Gupta has been a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1983, following six years at MIT as a member of the research staff in the Energy Laboratory and Department of Chemical Engineering, and three years at Sheffield University as an independent research worker and research fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Fuel Technology. He has over 35 years of experience in Combustion engineering since his graduation from Southampton University in 1970, and is the author of over 450 technical papers, three books, and 10 edited books.

His research interests are: Swirl flows; combustion; sprays; alternative fuels; pollution; gas turbine combustion; flowfield modeling; nonintrusive diagnostics; highly preheated air combustion; thermal destruction of solid and liquid wastes; gasification; sensors; internal combustion engines; fouling and deposition; pulse detonation; and combustion in microengines.

Dr. Perrine Pepiot
National Bioenergy Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
USA

Biomass gasification for biofuel synthesis: a modeling approach to the tar problem

Dr. Pepiot is currently an research scientist in the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, USA. She received a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from ENSAE (Supaero) in Toulouse, France, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004.
She graduated from Stanford University in June 2008 with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Her doctoral research on automatic strategies for the reduction of very large chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms was performed under the guidance of Dr. Pitsch.

Dr. Pepiot's research interests focus on large-scale simulations of reactive gas-solid flows, with direct application to biomass thermochemical conversion to biofuels. Current projects include developing detailed kinetic mechanisms able to accurately model biomass conversion to synthesis gas, and performing CFD simulations of NREL's experimental 4-inch fluidized bed reactor to better characterize the interactions between bed dynamics and chemical processes during biomass gasification.

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