报告介绍 | Abstract: With the vision of carbon neutrality and defossilization, the combustion community faces new opportunities. In spite of increasing introduction ofrenewable power, around 80% of global primary energy still originates from fossil sources. Alternative fuels and fuel blends as well as novel combustion and aftertreatment strategies aim to reduce the carbon footprint and local emissions. From a chemical viewpoint, such measures introduce exciting research questions regarding in-depth information on the combustion process, including detailed, fundamentally founded reaction mechanisms and physico-chemical combustion models of predictive character.Progress relies increasingly on valuable combinations of experiments, theory, simulation, and data strategies. Combustion expertise can also be advantageously applied to non-conventional conditions or processes beyond direct combustion applications. The talk will discusssome recent examples of combustion chemistry investigations, often relying on powerful in-situ diagnostic methods to probe mainly gas-phase reactive systems in laboratory configurations. Results from prototypical fuels and fuel combinations will be shown also in an attempt to provide some guidance for further theoretical studies and model development. Such selected examples can serve as food for thought about chances and challenges in the transition towards carbon-reduced processes.
About the speaker: Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus is a professor of Physical Chemistry at Bielefeld University, Germany, since 1994 and was appointed as a Senior Professor in 2017. Her research targets combustion chemistry and diagnostics with a multidisciplinary. She has been honored with prestigious awards, professorships and lectureships for her scientific contributions, including the German Cross of the Order of Merit, the Giulio Natta Medal in Chemical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and the three highest awards for international scientific cooperation issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the People's Republic of China. CAS has also awarded her a Distinguished Scientist Presidential International Fellowship in 2020. Furthermore, she is a Fellow of the Combustion Institute and was awarded its Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal in 2018. She has received the Walther Nernst Medal of the Bunsen Society of Physical Chemistry in 2020 and was honored by the City of Viña del Mar, Chile, in 2022. Kohse-Höinghaus is a member of six academies, including the German National Academies of Sciences and of Engineering as well as the European and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has served in numerous functions in professional societies and academic organizations, including the German Council of Sciences and the Humanities that advises the government as well as the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was president of the Bunsen Society of Physical Chemistry and member of the senates of the German Research Foundation and of the Helmholtz Association of National Laboratories. In the combustion field, she has served as editor-in-chief of Combustion and Flame, is a member of several editorial boards and has been the president of the international professional society The Combustion Institute 2012-2016. Kohse-Höinghaus serves in the scientific advisory boards of several national and international research centers and foundations. She is also a dedicated teacher and mentor to early-career researchers, with more than 100 theses supervised, and founded the first hands-on school lab at a German university in 1999 as a nucleus of out-of-school teaching activities in the STEM disciplines.
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