7th FCWS — 2024
Milan, Italy · 20–21 July 2024
The 7th FCWS was held in Milan as a satellite event of the 40th International Symposium on Combustion. Following the workshop, a perspective paper summarizing key challenges and strategic actions in flame chemistry was published in Combustion and Flame (2026).
Flame Chemistry Workshop: a perspective on challenges and strategic actions in combustion experiments and chemical kinetics modeling
Combustion and Flame, Vol. 286, April 2026, Article 114863
doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2026.114863 →Scope
Increasing concerns of energy security, climate change, and the challenges of the carbon-neutral energy transition drive the design of alternative fuels and their implementation in advanced combustion devices. The understanding of fundamental aspects of high and low temperature combustion such as ignition, flame chemistry, and emissions of new fuels (H₂, NH₃, sustainable aviation fuels, etc.) or under new and advanced combustion conditions (high pressure, plasma assisted, flameless, supercritical combustion, etc.) supports the design of new technologies while expanding technical and scientific knowledge in a key energy sector. The International Flame Chemistry Workshop gathers scientists and researchers from chemistry, physics, physical and theoretical chemistry, mechanical, aerospace, and chemical engineering to discuss and foster collaboration over many fundamental challenges.
Theme
- Sustainable fuels combustion (LFS, IDT, pollutants): H₂, NH₃, SAFs
- Advanced diagnostics for combustion measurements
- Plasma combustion: experiments and modelling
- AI-TST-ME: automation, benchmarking and knowledge transfer
- Chemical Kinetics Mechanisms: Progress in Accuracy and Details
Organizing Committee
- Matteo Pelucchi — Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Workshop Chair)
- Bin Yang — Tsinghua University, China (Workshop Chair)
- Brandon Rotavera — University of Georgia, USA
- Feng Zhang — University of Science and Technology of China, China
- Andrea Comandini — CNRS Orléans, France
- Liming Cai — Tongji University, China
- Carlo Cavallotti — Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Federica Bozza — MZ Events, Italy
Advisory Committee
- Stephen Klippenstein — Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Nils Hansen — Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Data & Materials
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