Topic: Future Propulsion Systems

10:30               Arrivals and Coffee

11:00               Welcome to IAAPS and UnICE3G Business: 1) Matters Arising, 2) Officers’ Report, 3) Any Other Business

Technical Presentations - Session 1

11:15               “Combustion Characteristics of Hydrogen, Propane and Methane Gases in a Boosted Featureless Port-Injection SI Engine”, Adebayo Fakeye, Junfeng Yang, University of Leeds

11:45               “Recent experience on H2 engines research and development”

H Zhao, M Mohamed, X Wang, C. Jiang, Brunel University London; J Hall, A. Harrington, Mahle Powertrain

12:15               “CFD Methods for Supersonic Hydrogen Jets and Predictive Capabilities of Chemical Kinetic Models for Hydrogen Combustion Applications”, Kacper Kaczmarczyk, Aleksandar Ribnishki, Stefania Esposito, Hao Yuan, Sam Akehurst; University of Bath

12:45               “Comparison of gasoline versus hydrogen co-fuelling in an ammonia single cylinder spark ignition engine”, Ajith Ambalakatte, Al Cairns, Antonino La Rocca, University of Nottingham; Anthony Harrington, Jonathan Hall, Mahle Powertrain

13:15               Lunch

Technical Presentations - Session 2

14:00               “The Role of Diffusive Mixing in Current and Future Aviation Fuels at relevant operating conditions”, Alex Gander, Guillaume de Sercey and Cyril Crua, University of Brighton

14:30               “Aqueous ammonia as a future zero-carbon fuel for propulsion”, Yanlin Han, James Frost, Nicos Ladommatos, Paul Hellier, University College London; Alessandro Schönborn, World Maritime University

15:00               “Experimental study on combustion and emission characteristics of flexi alcohol blends/biodiesel in RCCI engine”, Vikas Sharma, University of Brighton; Justin Jacob Thomas, Kerala State Road Transport Corporation; Govind Nagarajan, Ganesh Duraisamy, Anna University

15:30               Tours of IAAPS

Pre-registration is essential for admission to the IAAPS facility – on the day attendees may not be admitted.

Safety boots will need to be worn when touring the cells/back of house facility, and so if you have your own, could you please bring them along.