The 2 5 th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute

School of ChemistrySchool of Mathematical Sciences

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact SciencesTel Aviv University

תש כה December 2nd , 2010א''עבכסלוCarlton Hotel, Tel Aviv

Program

9:00-10:00 Registration10:00-10.15 Opening

S.Cheskis, G.Sivashinsky

Session 1: Chair: Alexander Burkat, Technion10.15-10.55 Recent developments in understanding of NOx combustion chemistry

Alexander A. Konnov, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 10.55-11.35 Combustion reaction mechanisms from ignition delay times. The loop

conceptAssa Lifshitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

11.35-12.00 Coffee break

Session 2: Chair: Benveniste Natan, Technion.12:00-12:40 Torrefied biomass - a premium drop-in fuel in coal-fired utility boilers

Ezra Bar-Ziv, EBC Energy, Ltd. Israel

12:40-14:45 Lunch and Poster session

Session 3: Chair: Alon Gany, Technion14:45-15:25 An Overview on Combustion Research at the ICE Laboratory - BGU

Eran Sher, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel 15:25-15:40 Coffee break

Session 4: Chair: Gregory Sivashinsky, Tel Aviv University

15:40-16:20 Effect of droplet grouping on pulsating spray diffusion flamesDavid Katoshevski, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel

16:20-17:00 An effect of shock waves, boundary layer and turbulence on flame acceleration and DDT in highly reactive mixturesMike Kuznetsov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

17:00-17:20 Closing remarks

17.20 Lighting the Hanukia