Multi-Agency Coordination Committee
for Combustion Research (MACCCR)

Fuels Research Review
Gaithersburg, Maryland
8-10 September 2008

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Monday, 8 September
Session Chair:  Jeffrey A. Manion, NIST
8:00 - 8:30 Opening Remarks
Dr. James M. Turner, NIST Deputy Director
8:30 - 9:15 Generation of Comprehensive Surrogate Kinetic Models and Validation Databases for Simulating Large Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels (PDF)
Frederick L. Dryer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
9:15 - 9:45 A Study on TSI as a Property Target for Sooting of Jet Fuel Surrogates (PDF)
Robert J. Santoro and Thomas A. Litzinger
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and The Propulsion Engineering Research Center
Pennsylvania State University
9:45 - 10:15 Oxidation of Potential Surrogate Fuel Components of JP-8 (PDF)
Kenneth Brezinsky
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois, Chicago
10:15 - 10:45Break
10:45 - 11:15 Fundamental Combustion Data for Surrogate Components, Blends, and Jet Fuels (PDF)
Chih-Jen Sung
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
11:15 - 11:45 Effects of Aromatic Fuel Blending on Extinction Limits and Soot Formation of n-Decane Diffusion Flames (PDF)
Yiguang Ju
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
11:45 - 12:15Discussion
12:15 - 1:15Lunch
Session Chair:  Philip Westmoreland, NSF
1:15 - 1:30Energy IPT Overview, Development of Detailed and Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for Surrogates of Petroleum-Derived and Synthetic Jet Fuels (PDF)
Fokion Egolfopoulos
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
1:30 - 2:00 Drexel Flow Reactor Studies at Low and Intermediate Temperatures (PDF)
Nicholas P. Cernansky and David L. Miller
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Drexel University
2:00 - 2:25Flow Reactor Studies of Surrogate Jet Fuel Reaction Kinetics (PDF)
Craig T. Bowman
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
2:25 - 2:50Shock Tube/Laser Diagnostics for Fuel and Surrogate Kinetics (PDF)
Ronald Hanson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
2:50 - 3:15Flame Studies of Jet Fuels and Surrogate-Related Neat Components (PDF)
Fokion Egolfopoulos
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
3:15 - 3:40Break
3:40 - 4:10Reaction Mechanisms of Surrogate Fuels (PDF)
Chung K. Law
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
4:10 - 4:40Surrogate Fuel Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification (PDF)
Heinz Pitsch
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
4:40 - 5:20Experiments and Reaction Models of Fundamental Combustion Properties (2) (PDF)
Hai Wang
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
5:20 - 6:00Discussion
Tuesday, 9 September
Session Chair:  Walt Kozumbo, AFOSR
8:30 - 8:45Announcements
8:45 - 9:15Air Force Future Fuel Utilization (PDF)
James Tim Edwards
Air Force Research Laboratory/RZ
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
9:15 - 9:45USDA REE Strategic Energy Science Plan (PDF)
Robert L. Fireovid
United States Department of Agriculture
9:45 - 10:15(MURI) Biosolar H2 Generation
G. Charles Dismukes
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University
Presentation will not be made available
10:15 - 10:45Algal Oil for Jet Fuel Production
Richard Sayre
Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ohio State University
Withdrawn
10:45 - 11:15Break
Session Chair:  Wade Sisk, DOE
11:15 - 11:45Algal Oil for Jet Fuel Production
Al Darzins
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Withdrawn
11:45 - 12:15New Paradigm in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Oxidation Chemistry (PDF)
Josette Bellan
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
12:15 - 12:45Thermodynamic, Transport, and Chemical Properties of "Reference" JP-8 (F1ATA06004G004) (PDF)
Thomas Bruno
Physical and Chemical Properties Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
12:45 - 1:45Lunch
Session Chair:  Dan Bulzan, NASA
1:45 - 2:15An Automated Process for Generation of New Fuel Breakdown Mechanisms
Angela Violi
College of Engineering
University of Michigan
2:15 - 2:45The Decomposition of Surrogate Fuel Molecules During Combustion (PDF)
Wing Tsang
Physical and Chemical Properties Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
2:45 - 3:15Supercritical Fuel Pyrolysis
Mary J. Wornat
Department of Chemical Engineering
Louisiana State University
Presentation will not be made available
3:15 - 3:45Preignition Chemistry of Xylenes and Their Effect on JP-8 Surrogates (PDF)
Nicholas P. Cernansky
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Drexel University
3:45 - 4:15Break
Session Chair:  Wing Tsang, NIST
4:15 - 4:45Fundamental Combustion Properties of a Fischer-Tropsch Jet Fuel (PDF)
Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
4:45 - 5:15Experimental Study of the Oxidation, Ignition, and Soot Formation Characteristics of Jet Fuels (PDF)
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
5:15 - 5:45Computational and Experimental Studies of Jet Fuel Combustion (PDF)
Mitchell D. Smooke and Alessandro Gomez
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
Wednesday, 10 September
Session Chair:  Don Ferguson, DOE
8:15 - 8:30Announcements
8:30 - 9:00Detailed and Simplified Chemical Kinetics of Aviation Fuels and Surrogates (PDF)
Peter Lindstedt
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
9:00 - 9:30Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Combustion Characteristics of F-T Fuels (PDF)
Ellen Meeks
Reaction Design
9:30 - 10:00Experimental Studies of Coal and Biomass Fuel Synthesis and Flame Characterization for Aircraft Engines
Rakesh Agrawal
School of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
Presentation will not be made available
10:00 - 10:30A New Platform for Predictive Modeling:  PrIMe (PDF)
Michael Frenklach
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
10:30 - 11:00Break
Session Chair:  Ralph Anthenien, ARO
11:00 - 11:30AFRL Efforts in RP Thermal Stability Characterization and Improvement (PDF)
Matthew Billingsley
Air Force Research Laboratory/RZSA
Edwards Air Force Base
11:30 - 12:00The Properties of RP-1 and RP-2 MIPR F1SBAA8022G001 (PDF)
Thomas Bruno
Physical and Chemical Properties Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
12:00 - 12:30Shock Tube Study of High Temperature Decomposition of Rocket Kerosenes
Ronald Hanson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Presentation will not be made available
12:30 - 1:00Technical and Sociological Aspects of Qualifying Future Alternative Fuels in Aircraft (PDF)
George Wilson
Southwest Research Institute
1:00 - 1:45Lunch
1:45 - 3:00Discussion
3:00 - 3:30Break
3:30 - 5:00Tour of NIST Laboratory Facilities
5:00Adjourn