Events 2023

CIBS/IoP Hydrogen Combustion Meeting, Cambridge, December 8th, 2023

Hydrogen is the trending green fuel for decarbonisation. Interest in hydrogen as a fuel for combustion applications has rapidly increased with the release of the government targets for net-zero by 2050. Low carbon hydrogen could be a versatile replacement for high-carbon fuels used today either with power generation gas turbines or civil aviation, helping to reduce pollutant emissions in vital UK industrial sectors and providing flexible energy for power, heat, and transport.

Following a successful and productive one-day meeting last year on Hydrogen research involving both academics and industry, Combustion Institute British Section (CIBS) and the Institute of Physics – Combustion Physics Group (IOP-CPG) are jointly holding their one-day meeting on ‘Hydrogen Combustion – Current and Future Research’ on the 8th December 2023. The event is organised under the auspices of CIBS and IOP. The event will be held at LT1, Inglis Building, Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ. The directions to the venue can be found here. 

The aim of this meeting is to bring together experts in the field of hydrogen combustion as a route to decarbonisation of energy production and sustainable transport. Researchers into the fundamental aspects of hydrogen combustion as well as those developing of solutions for industrial, energy storage, hydrogen safety and transport applications are invited to participate in this one-day meeting.

The programme will consist of talks from industry and academics. In addition, early career researchers (students and postdocs) who are interested in presenting their work as a contributed poster are invited to submit an abstract of 200 to 250 words before the 21st November 2023. Abstracts should be sent as a PDF through email to both James Massey (jcm97@cam.ac.uk) and Suresh Sadasivuni (suresh.sadasivuni@siemens-energy.com) and the authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 23rd November 2023.

You can register for this event here and registration closes on 30th November 2023. The registration fees are as follows, which include access to the talks, refreshments, and lunch.

If you would like to stay in Cambridge either the night before or after this meeting, here are some of the hotels near to the Engineering Department: Royal Cambridge Hotel, Hotel du Vin Cambridge, Lensfield Hotel, among many others. The Engineering Department is easily accessible by a 15-minute walk from Cambridge Station. If you plan to drive, it is recommended to use Cambridge Park and Ride at Madingley Road (take the Universal bus on Eddington Avenue) or Trumpington and the nearest bus stops are by the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Book of Abstracts

Programme

09:00 – 09:55: Registration and refreshments

09:55 – 10:00: Opening (Dr James Massey, local organiser)

Invited talks session 1

10:00 – 10-25: Dr Kenneth Young, Rolls–Royce, "Observations on Operability and Safety for a Hydrogen Fuelled Aviation Gas Turbine"

10:25 – 10:50: Dr Midhat Talibi, University College London, "Hydrogen Combustion Technologies for Future Power and Propulsion"

10:50 – 11:15: Prof. Aimee Morgans, Imperial College London, "Hydrogen and Thermoacoustic Instability: Flame Transfer Functions for Hydrogen-Rich Flames"

11:15 – 11:45: Coffee break & posters

Invited talks session 2

11:45 – 12:10: Dr Jonathan May, Siemens Energy Industrial Turbomachinery, "HYFLEXPOWER Project: Demonstration of an Industrial Power-to-H2-to-Power Advanced Plant Concept with up to 100% H2 in an SGT-400 Gas Turbine"

12:10 – 12:35: Dr Daniel Pugh, Cardiff University, "Hydrogen burner development and NOx control at Cardiff’s Gas Turbine Research Centre"

12:35 – 13:00: Prof. Adam Boies, University of Cambridge, "Can Hydrogen Production Aid in Decarbonizing Materials? An Analysis of Turquoise Hydrogen Production"

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch & posters

Invited talks session 3

14:00 – 14:25: Prof. Nilanjan Chakraborty, Newcastle University, "Effects of Hydrogen on Premixed Flame-Wall Interaction: Physical Insights and Modelling Implications"

14:25 – 14:50: Dr Antonio Attili, University of Edinburgh, "Thermodiffusive Instabilities in Laminar and Turbulent Hydrogen Flames"

14:50 – 15:15: Dr Konstantina Vogiatzaki, University of Oxford, "Hydrogen Injection Dynamics: Thermodynamic and Mixing Physical Challenges and How to be Addressed within CFD Frameworks"

15:15 – 15:40: Prof. Jennifer Wen, University of Surrey, "Development and Validation of CFD Models for Hydrogen Safety"

15:40 – 16:15: Coffee break & posters

16:15 – 17:00: Panel Discussion – Moderated by Dr Suresh Sadasivuni

17:00: Closing remarks (Prof Nedunchezhian Swaminathan, Combustion Institute British Section chair)