Advanced Combustion Technologies and Emission Control

Dear Colleagues,

Against the background of the various perspectives on carbon neutrality, the combustion of low-carbon and zero-carbon fuels has emerged as a potential technical route for the reduction of carbon emission. Ammonia, hydrogen, and other new types of fuels are now deemed as desirable energy carriers of renewable energy, including solar and wind energies, which turn intermittent energy into successive chemical energies that can be used as fuel.

The combustion of ammonia and hydrogen, together with other potential low-carbon or zero-carbon fuels, either solely or together with traditional fuels such as coal, gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, etc., is one of the possible technical routes for green energy utilization; however, the combustion emissions still need to be considered in this process. NO_x and carbon soot are important pollutants in fuel combustion and are also important indicators for measuring the low-pollution characteristics of fuels. The study of the generation mechanism of NO_x and carbon smoke is of great significance for the development of low-emission energy systems, and the interaction mechanism between low- and zero-carbon fuels and traditional fuels is necessary for retrofitting existing energy systems and combustors. Currently, the mechanisms of the pollutants represented by NO_x and carbon smoke are still not well understood, but new fuels such as ammonia, hydrogen, biomass, etc., can be used to control the generation of combustion pollutants.

Ammonia, hydrogen, biomass, and other new fuels not only bring new challenges to the research of combustion pollutant generation control but also new opportunities to achieve the carbon neutrality goal. This Special Issue is intended to contribute to the development of advanced combustion and emission control technologies for low-carbon and zero-carbon fuels, aiming to promote the study of combustion, pollutant generation, and mitigation mechanisms against the background of the carbon neutrality strategy. This Special Issue will focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• The Fundamental combustion physics and chemistry of low-carbon/zero-carbon fuels and their blends with traditional fuels;
• Studies of the mechanisms involved and kinetic modeling of low-carbon/zero-carbon fuel combustion and pollutant emissions;
• Advanced diagnostic technology for low-carbon/zero-carbon fuel combustion;
• Emission control technology for low-carbon/zero-carbon fuel combustion;
• Advanced Combustion technologies for low-carbon/zero-carbon fuels utilization;
• Catalytic combustion and emission mitigation for low-carbon/zero-carbon fuels;
• The use of AI for low-carbon/zero-carbon fuel combustion studies.       

Dr. Lingnan Wu
Guest Editor

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• zero-carbon/low-carbon fuels
• combustion reaction kinetics
• combustion physics
• NO_x
• soot
• advanced combustion technologies
• AI