Professor Chris Wilson (1962-2013)

It is with great sadness that the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Sheffield regrets to announce the death of Prof. Chris Wilson, aged 51 , which occurred on 9 November 2013. He was Professor of Combustion and Thermofluids in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Call for nominations to the 2013 Hinshelwood Prize

The 31^st of December is the deadline for nominations for the 2013 Hinshelwood Prize. It recognizes good work done by younger members of the section in any aspect of Combustion. The rules for the award are detailed here. 

Nominations and required documentation should be sent to the Secretary (y.hardalupas@imperial.ac.uk) by the deadline.

2013 Elections for the Committee concluded

Dear members,

Elections for the CIBS committee in 2013 have been concluded. There were 86 electronic votes cast, with the election of Phil Bowen and Yajue Wu in the first round (see attachment for total result counts). We would like to thank Ben Anthony and Jethro Ackroyd for standing for this election as well. 

The current composition of the committee is shown below. 

Name	Affiliation	Term
Prof. P. Bowen	Cardiff University	(2013-2016)
Prof. R. S. Cant	University of Cambridge	(2012-2015)
Prof. Y. Hardalupas	Imperial College	(2009 – 2012),(2012 – 2015) Hon. Secretary
Prof. A N. Hayhurst	University of Cambridge	Honorary life member
Dr. K. J. Hughes	Leeds University	Membership secretary, co-opted (2013)
Prof. W. P. Jones	Imperial College	Chair, (2011-2016)
Prof. R. P. Lindstedt		Director, Combustion Institute (co-opted)
Prof. E. Mastorakos	University of Cambridge	Associate Editor of C&F (co-opted)
Mr. J. Moran	Rolls-Royce plc	(2012-2015)
Dr. N. Morgan	Shell Global Solutions	(2011-2014)
Dr G. Rein	Imperial College	Web Master (2008-2011), (2011-2014)
Dr Y. Wu	University of Sheffield	(2013-1016)

Committee Nominations 2013

The nominations received for the 2013 elections to the Committee of the British Section of the Combustion Institute are: 

Nomination

Nominator

Seconder

Jethro Ackroyd	Simone Hochgreb	Neal Morgan Markus Kraft
Ben Anthony	Paul Fennel	Allan Hayhurst Yannis Hardalupas
Phil Bowen	Bill Jones	Simone Hochgreb Allan Hayhurst
Yajue Wu	Allan Hayhurst	David Smith Simone Hochgreb

Jethro Ackroyd, University of Cambridge/cmcl Innovations
Jethro is a chartered chemical engineer. He started his graduate career in the pharmaceutical industry developing processes and commissioning plants to manufacture cancer and bird flu treatments. He held Senior Process Engineer positions at both AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline before returning to university to study numerical methods for modelling turbulent reacting flows. He currently holds positions as a Principal Engineer at cmcl innovations, a multi-award winning SME, as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Churchill College. Jethro is motivated and passionate about combustion and research, and is excited about the opportunity to play a more active role in the British Section of the Combustion Institute.

Ben Anthony, Cranfield University
Dr. Anthony is a reader in Energy at Cranfield University, and previously he was a senior research scientist with Natural Resources Canada, where he headed the Gasification and Fluidized Bed Combustion Group, which was responsible for a 1 tonne/d high pressure gasifier and 1 MWt oxy-fired Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) among other major facilities used to support industry. His interests include thermal energy processes that can offer pure CO2 streams for sequestration, and gasification technology, both in its high-pressure and atmospheric forms, and coal and waste combustion in FBC.  Dr. Anthony is the author of 190+ journal papers on various aspects of combustion and gasification, along with a similar number of conference papers, 13 book chapters, and he is the co-editor of the first book on Pressurized Fluidized Beds.  Dr. Anthony’s current R&D pursuits are strongly focused on calcium looping cycles, oxy-fired CFBC technology and pressurized, entrained-flow gasification.  Dr. Anthony is currently an adjunct Professor with the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Ottawa, a guest Professor with Southeast University in Nanjing, China and a visiting Professor at Imperial College. Dr. Anthony also serves on the editorial board of the journal Fuel and on the advisory board of Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology.

Phil Bowen, Cardiff University
Phil Bowen graduated with First Class Honours in Pure/Applied Maths and was awarded his PhD in developing perturbation and numerical methods for Newtontian and non-Newtonian swirling flow in 1990 under Prof. Ken Walters. He was then employed by Shell Research Ltd. (Thornton, 1990-94) as part of the Combustion Hazards group. In 1994 he joined Nick Syred’s thermofluids/combustion group at Cardiff, developing his research expertise in combustion and combustion-related stationary power-gen applications (e.g. coal and biomass applications) and automotive. He was appointed 'Chair in Energy Systems' at Cardiff in 2004. He was co-founder of the first national pan-Wales energy research centre (WERC), which has since developed into the Low Carbon Research Institute. He led Cardiff's successful 2005 bid for the donation of QinetiQ's high-pressure/temperature/flow gas turbine combustion facilities, which he recommissioned at an offsite centre (GTRC, Port Talbot) as part of a  £7.8M programme. He led Cardiff's successful £3.8M bid in 2007 for RCUK centre in Renewable Energy under the  Science and Innovation investment programme - Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply (CIREGS, led by Prof. Nick Jenkins). He set up Cardiff's MSc in Sustainable Energy and Environment (2006). He has published approaching 200 papers, including 50 journal in the area of thermofluids, heat transfer and combustion. He is a former Chair of the IOP Combustion Physics Group (2009-12), and is member of the EU Biofuels Technology Platform (2007-) Steering Committee , IEC International Standards Management Committee for Explosive Area Classification (2007-), UKELG and the Institute of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Board. He presented the 2011 EU Combustion Meeting (ECM) keynote address, and various others. He has advised government on Energy policy, innovation and manufacturing, and has undertaken consultancy for a wide range of multi-nationals. He is currently Director of the Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University.

Yajue Wu, University of Sheffield
Yajue’s first degrees (B,Sc. and M.Sc.) are from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her Ph.D. is from Sheffield University, where she is a University Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. In addition, she has worked at Edinburgh University. Her current research interests include: energy systems based on hydrogen; the rapid spread of fire through buildings, tunnels, etc; the dynamics of fires and explosions; combustion and heat transfer in industrial furnaces; hazard analysis. In the past, she has served the British Section as its Secretary and would be happy to help again as a member of the Committee.

Biomass Fuelled Power Generation with CO2 Capture

The 2013 Spring meeting of the British Section of the Combustion Institute was held on May 24 in Cambridge to celebrate Prof. Allan Hayhurst's birthday.

The presentations, list of attendees and photos of the event can be accessed at the website:

Biomass Fuelled Power Generation with CO2 Capture Conference

 

Current Research in Combustion: A Forum for Research Students and Early Career Researchers

Organised by IOP Combustion Physics Group at Loughborough University on 24th September 2013.

Co-sponsored by British Section of the Combustion Institute

The aim of the meeting is provide a forum for contributions on current research in topics relevant to combustion physics and an opportunity to meet other researchers and industrialists. The meeting is sponsored by the IOP and industry and will provide industrialists with a broad view of current combustion research and a chance to meet potential recruits in the field.

The meeting includes oral and poster presentations from leading research groups in the field of Combustion Physics and will cover many varied aspects of combustion. The meeting is open to members and non-members of the Institute of Physics and promises to be an interesting and constructive day of presentations and discussions about current research topics in Combustion Physics.

Early career researchers wishing to submit a poster or present their current combustion-related research should submit an abstract at the event website, https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/445/home, for consideration as soon as possible. The submission deadline is 20th August 2013. Please indicate your preference for a poster or oral presentation. The presentations should be 20 minutes in length leaving 5 minutes for questions. Presenters should either be research students focussed on combustion or combustion engineers in the early stages of their career in industry (having obtained their research degree in the last 5 years).

Companies wishing to display a stand for recruitment purposes should contact Dr Catherine Gardner (Catherine.gardner (at) rolls-royce.com) for further information.