COURSE DESCRIPTION
COMBUSTION IS A MODE OF CHEMICAL CONVERSION OF ENERGY. SEVERAL FUELS, GASEOUS LIQUID OR SOLID, MAY UNDERGO COMBUSTION CHEMICAL REACTIONS PROVIDED THAT ENOUGH OXIDANT AND IGNITION HEAT SOURCE ARE PROVIDED. SEVERAL COMBUSTION REGIMES CAN BE ENGINEERED SUCH AS LAMINAR OR TURBULENT / PREMIXED OR NON PREMIXED / SUBSONIC OR SUPERSONIC / SUBCRITICAL OR SUPERCRITICAL UNDER VARIOUS PRESSURE / INITIAL TEMPERATURE / MIXTURE COMPOSITION / GRAVITATIONAL CONDITIONS. UNWANTED COMBUSTION PHENOMENA MAY ALSO OCCUR SUCH AS FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS. COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HAS TODAY ATTAINED A VERY SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENT LEVEL DEVELOPING EXPERIMENTAL, THEORETICAL, COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES USING SEVERAL ADVANCED RESEARCH TOOLS SUCH AS LASER DIAGONSTICS, CHEMICAL KINETICS AND TURBULENCE MODELLING AND VARIOUS NUMERICAL APPROACHES, INCLUDING DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION. AN IMPORTANT FEATURE OF COMBUSTION STUDIES IS THEIR STRONG INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE MOBILISING KNOWLEDGE AREAS RANGING FROM CHEMICAL KINETICS TO TURBULENCE, HEAT TRANSFER, PHYSICS, THERMODYNAMICS, OPTICS, ANALYTICAL TECHNICS, SPECTROSCOPY AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS. COMBUSTION IS TODAY AT THE HEART OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES. BURNING CARBON CONTAINING FUELS EMITS CO2, SOURCE OF GLOBAL WARMING AND ALSO MANY OTHER POLLUTANTS SUCH AS PARTICULATE MATTERS AND NOX THAT ARE HAZARDEOUS FOR HUMAN HEALTH. THE TASK FOR COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TODAY IS TO CONCEIVE AND OPTIMIZE NEW FUELS AND NON-POLLUTING / LOW / ZERO CARBON EMISSION CHEMICAL CONVERSION SYSTEMS. THE MAIN TOPICS ARE: COMBUSTION OF HYDROGEN AND HYDROGENATED FUELS / OXY- COMBUSTION AND CARBON CAPTURE / ENERGY VALORIZATION OF ORGANIC WASTE MATERIALS BY VARIOUS GASIFICATION AND PYROLYSYS PROCESSES / HYDROGEN GENERATION BY COAL GASIFICATION, METAL HYDROLYSIS, NATURAL GAS PYROLYSIS / BURNİNG OF SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUELS. THE COURSE WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING TOOLS FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE STATE OF THE ART STUDIES IN MODERN COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AREAS
At the end of this course, students will