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Research Centre for
Combustion and Pollution Control (CPC)
Objective
• The CPC Research Centre is established to create and develop a critical mass in the fundamental and applied
studies of combustion-related air pollution problems and their control.
Application of Alternative Fuels to
Diesel Engine
Feasibility in using hydrogen, biodiesel
and pentanol as fuel for diesel engines are
explored. The influences of these alternative
fuels on the combustion, performance,
gaseous and particulate mass-number
emissions, as well as the physicochemical
properties of the particulates
are investigated. The application of
these alternative fuels is able to reduce
significantly the particulate mass-number
emissions and renders the particulates
easier to be oxidized.
Combustion Chemical Kinetics of
Large Biodiesel Molecules
Development of detailed reaction mechanism for
the combustion of large biodiesel molecules is
crucial to the utilization of biodiesel, while it has
been hampered by the formidably time-consuming
quantum chemistry computation of the molecules.
Recently, the reactions of large biodiesel molecules
with hydrogen radical are accurately calculated
with a significantly efficient theoretical method. The
method is expected to make a strong impact on the
current theoretical study of biodiesel combustion.
Multiphase and Multi-component Complex
Systems with Micro- and Nano-scale
The development of novel model scheme for solving
the challenging problems on multiphase and multicomponent
complex systems with micro- and
nano-scale which have been identified in multidisciplinary
areas (i.e., thermal-fluid, materials,
chemical and environmental sciences) and many
potential engineering applications.
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ME 80th Anniversary • 1937-2017