Gengyu Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering (M2: at the time), Professor Yuji Suzuki and Lecturer Minhyeok Lee received Best Paper Award, Combustion Society of Japan

On 16th November, Gengyu Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering (M2: at the time, currently D1: Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Engineering), Professor Yuji Suzuki and Lecturer Minhyeok Lee received Best Paper Award, Combustion Society of Japan.

Best Paper Award, Combustion Society of Japan

This award is presented to the authors of the paper for outstanding academic achievement in combustion research.

About awarded research

“Investigation of Premixed Cool Flame Ignition Characteristics under Mildly-Elevated Pressures by Using TDLAS,”

Journal of the Combustion Society of Japan, Vol. 65, No. 213, pp.178-184 (2023).

Your impression & future plan

It is a great honor to receive the Best Paper Award from the Combustion Society of Japan. In this paper, the ignition characteristics of DME cool flames under elevated pressures were investigated by measuring HCHO molecule concentration with Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS), and the inhibition effect of cool flame reactivity with increasing pressure has been clarified. We believe that our experimental approach based on advanced laser diagnostics to cool flame phenomena, of which the importance of elucidation has increased recently, has been highly evaluated. By further developing the technology and knowledge obtained from this study, we would like to contribute to the realization of decarbonization in the field of combustion.