Conferences

The 46th Annual Meeting of the Italian Section of the Combustion Institute (ASICI) will take place in Bari, Italy, from June 2 to 5, 2024. On June 3 and 4, the meeting will take place at the Centro Polifunzionale Studenti of the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, located near the historic center of Bari. The events on June 5 will take place at Politecnico di Bari.

This conference will provide leading scientists and technologists working in the field of combustion, including fundamental and applied aspects, as well as in neighbouring fields such as pyrolysis, gasification, fuel treatment and upgrading, with a platform to share their latest research and engage in interesting discussions. There will be a specific emphasis on low-emission and sustainable technologies.

The meeting will consist of parallel sessions for oral presentations, along with a work-in-progress and industrial poster session. Each morning session will start with a plenary lecture.

Main Topics:

• Low-Emission Combustion Technologies: including low-carbon and hydrogen-based fuels, MILD combustion, oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping, NOx and SOx reduction, and CO2 capture strategies.
• Reaction Kinetics: including the kinetics of hydrocarbons, oxygenated fuels, and alternative energy carriers, formation of pollutants, elementary reactions, and mechanism generation and reduction.
• Laminar and Turbulent Flames: including experiments, theory, and modeling applied to ignition, propagation, extinction, stabilization, dynamics, and instabilities.
• Spray, Droplet, and Supercritical Combustion: including atomization, combustion of droplets, sprays, and supercritical fluids.
• Detonation, Explosion, and Supersonic Combustion: including fundamental aspects of ignition and flame acceleration, fire safety aspects, rotating- and pulse-detonation engines, constant volume combustion engines, and scramjet engines.
• Solid Fuel Combustion: including fundamental aspects related to pyrolysis, oxidation, gasification, and ash formation from coal, biomass, and wastes, as well as combustion of propellants and metals.
• Propulsion and Engines: including device-specific aspects of fuels, emissions, injection, stability, combustion dynamics, internal combustion engines, gas turbines, and rocket engines.
• Soot, Nanomaterials, and Large Molecules: including the formation, growth, and destruction of soot, PAHs, carbon nanostructures, and other nanoscale materials. 
• Multi-Physics Phenomena: including assisted combustion (plasmas, electric and magnetic fields), catalysis, coupled heat transfer, micro-channel reactors, fuel cells, fuel synthesis and transformation, and electrolysis.

Conference Chairs
Dr. Mario Commodo (CNR-STEMS)
Prof. Davide Laera (Politecnico di Bari)
Prof. Sergio Camporeale (Politecnico di Bari)
Dr. Giancarlo Sorrentino (CNR-STEMS)
Dr. Gianluigi De Falco (CNR-STEMS)
Mr. Francesco Gabriele Schiavone (Politecnico di Bari)
Dr. Antonio Tregrossi (CNR-STEMS)

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