MULTI AGENCY COORDINATION COMMITTEE

FOR COMBUSTION RESEARCH (MACCCR)

**FUELS RESEARCH REVIEW**

**Gaithersburg MD**

**8-10 September 2008**

**[MONDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER]{.underline}**

8:00 - 8:30 OPENING REMARKS

8:30 - 1:00 (MURI 2007) Generation of Comprehensive Surrogate Kinetic

> Models and Validation Data Bases for Simulating Large
>
> Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels
>
> Frederick Dryer, Princeton University
>
> Yiguang Ju, Princeton University
>
> Henry Curran, Princeton University
>
> Kenneth Brezinsky, University of Illinois, Chicago
>
> Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University
>
> Robert Santoro, Pennsylvania State University
>
> Chih-Jen Sung, Case Western Reserve University

1:00 - 1:45 LUNCH

1:45 - 6:00 Development of Detailed and Reduced Mechanisms for

Surrogates of Petroleum-Derived and Synthetic Jet Fuels

Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California

Hai Wang, University of Southern California

Chung King Law, Princeton University

Ronald Hanson, Stanford University

Heinz Pitsch, Stanford University

Craig Bowman, Stanford University

Nicholas Cernansky, Drexel University

David Miller, Drexel University

**[TUESDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER]{.underline}**

8:00 - 8:15 Announcements

8:15 - 8:45 Air Force Future Fuel Utilization

James Tim Edwards, AFRL/RZ

8:45 - 9:15 Biofuels Research at the USDA

Robert Fireovid, United States Department of

Agriculture

9:15 - 9:45 (MURI) Biosolar H**~2~** Generation

G. Charles Dismukes, Princeton University

9:45 - 10:15 Algal Oil for Jet Fuel Production

Richard Sayre, Ohio State University

10:15 -- 10:45 BREAK

10:45 -- 11:15 Algal Oil for Jet Fuel Production

Al Darzins, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

11:15 -- 11:45 New Paradigm in Modeling and Simulation of Complex

Oxidation Chemistry

Josette Bellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:45 - 12:15 Thermodynamic, Transport, and Chemical Properties

Of "Reference" JP-8

Thomas Bruno, National Institute of Standards and

Technology

12:15 -- 12:45 Fuels Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Marina Braun-Unkhoff

12:45 - 1:45 LUNCH

1:45 - 2:15 An Automated Process for Generation of New Fuel

Breakdown Mechanisms

Angela Violi, University of Michigan

2:15 - 2:45 The Decomposition of Surrogate Fuel Molecules During

Combustion

Wing Tsang, National Institute of Standards and Technology

2:45 - 3:15 Supercritical Fuel Pyrolysis

Mary J. Wornat, Louisiana State University

3:15 - 3:45 Preignition Chemistry of Xylenes and Their Effect on JP-8

Surrogates

Nicholas Cernansky, Drexel University

3:45 - 4:15 BREAK

4:15 - 4:45 Fundamental Combustion Properties of a Fischer-Tropsch Jet
Fuel

> Chih-Jen Sung, Case Western Reserve University

4:45 - 5:15 (YIP) Experimental Study of the Oxidation, Ignition, and
Soot

> Formation Characteristics of Jet Fuel
>
> Matthew Oehlschlaeger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

5:15 - 5:45 Computational and Experimental Studies of Jet Fuel
Combustion

Mitchell Smooke, Yale University

**WEDNESDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER**

8:15 - 8:30 Announcements

8:30 - 9:00 Detailed and Simplified Chemical Kinetics of Aviation Fuels
and

Surrogates

Peter Lindstedt, Imperial College of Science, Technology and

Medicine

9:00 - 9:30 Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Combustion

> Characteristics of F-T Fuels
>
> Ellen Meeks, Reaction Design

9:30 -- 10:00 Experimental Studies of Coal and Biomass Fuel Synthesis
and

> Flame Characterization for Aircraft Engines
>
> Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University

10:00 -- 10:30 Development of PrIMe Cyber Infrastructure for Combustion

Community

Michael Frenklach, University of California, Berkeley

10:30 -- 11:00 BREAK

11:00 -- 11:30 Experimental Studies of RP-2 Thermal Stability: Heat
Transfer,

Coking, and Corrosion

Matt Billingsley, AFRL/RZSA

11:30 - 12:00 Thermophysics of Neat and Stabilized RP-2: Studies in

> Thermophysical and Kinetic Properties to Facilitate Modeling
>
> Thomas Bruno, National Institute of Standards and Technology

12:00 - 12:30 Shock Tube Study of High Temperature decomposition of
Rocket

Kerosenes

Ronald Hanson, Stanford University

12:30 - 1:00 Technical and Sociological Aspects of Qualifying Future
Alternative

Fuels for Use in Aircraft

George Wilson, Southwest Research Institute

1:00 -- 1:45 LUNCH

1:45 - 3:00 Discussion

3:00 - 3:30 BREAK

3:30 - 5:00 Tour of NIST Laboratory Facilities

5:00 ADJOURN