Presentations
Combustion Experiments
Alternative fuels: Combustion Experiments
Alternative fuels: Surrogate Mixture Development (talks)
Alternative fuels: Surrogate Mixture Development (student posters)
Physical Properties of individual fuel components and multi-component mixtures: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Increasing Diesel Engine Maximum Power with Partially Premixed Combustion (PPC)
- Mike Walker, Len Hamilton, Dianne Luning Prak, Jim Cowart
- submitted to the Society of Automotive Engineers International Congress, April 2018.
- Partially Premixed Combustion Application for Diesel Power Improvement
- Mike Walker, Robby Kelson, Kevin Bowes, Len Hamilton, Dianne Luning Prak, Jim Cowart
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers IC Engines Conference, ICEF#2017-3544, Seattle WA, Oct. 2017.
- Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Operation with Jet Fuel and Water Injection in a Single Cylinder Diesel CFR Engine
- Jim Cowart, Kevin Bowes, Mike Walker, Len Hamilton, Dianne Luning Prak
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers IC Engines Conference, ICEF#2017-3653, Seattle WA, Oct. 2017.
- Reference and Pure Component Fuel Characterization in an Ignitional Quality Tester Derived Cetane Rating Unit
- Peter Luning Prak, Len Hamilton, Dianne Luning Prak, D.J., Jim Cowart
- Society of Automotive Engineers International Congress, Paper #2017-01-0715, Detroit, MI, April 2017.
- Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Operation with Navy Jet Fuel in a Waukesha Diesel CFR Engine
- Kevin Bowes, Mike Walker, Len Hamilton, Dianne Luning Prak, Jim Cowart
- 10th US National Combustion Meeting, #2F15, The Combustion Institute, April 2017.
- A Comparative Study of Alternative and Conventional Diesel Combustion Modes in a Single Cylinder Engine with a Single Injection Event
- Jim Cowart, Len Hamilton, Dianne Luning Prak
- ASME Internal Combustion Engine Conference, Greenville, SC, October 2016 (#ICEF2016-9372)
- The Effects of Fuel Injection Pressure and Fuel Type on the Combustion Characteristics of a Diesel Engine
- Jim Cowart, Dianne Luning Prak, Len Hamilton
- ASME 2014 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, Columbus, IN, October 2014
- An experimental study of normal-hexadecane and iso-dodecane binary fuel blends in a military diesel engine
- Len Hamilton, Jim Cowart, Dianne Luning Prak, Patrick Caton
- ASME 2012 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 2012
- High Cetane Fuel Combustion Performance in a Conventional Military Diesel Engine
- Jim Cowart, Michael Carr, Patrick Caton, Lars Stoulig, Dianne Luning Prak, Andrew Moore, Len Hamilton
- SAE 2011 World Congress and Exhibition, Detroit, MI, April 2011
- Binary Mixtures of Branched and Aromatic Pure Component Fuels as Surrogates for Future Diesel Fuels
- Andrew Mathes, Jacob Ries, Patrick Caton, Jim Cowart, Dianne Luning Prak, Len Hamilton
- SAE 2010 Powertrain Fuels & Lubricants Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2010
Alternative fuels: Combustion Experiments
- A Technical Evaluation of New Renewable Jet and Diesel Fuels Operated in Neat Form in Multiple Diesel Engines
- Andy McDaniel, Terrance Dickerson, Dianne Luning Prak, Len Hamilton Jim Cowart
- Society of Automotive Engineers International Congress, Detroit, MI SAE Paper # 2016-01-0829, 2016.
- Start-up and Steady-State Performance of a new renewable hydro-processed Depolymerized Cellulosic Diesel (HDCD) Fuel in Multiple Diesel Engines
- Eric Bermudez, Andy McDaniel, Terrence Dickerson, Dianne Luning Prak, Len Hamilton, Jim Cowart
- ASME 2015 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, Houston, TX, November 2015
- Hydrotreated Algae Renewable Fuel Performance in a Military Diesel Engine
- Patrick Caton, Sherri Williams, Rich Kamin, Dianne Luning Prak, Len Hamilton, Jim Cowart
- ASME 2012 Internal Combustion Engine Division Spring Technical Conference, Torino, Piemonte, Italy, May 2012
- Start-up and Steady-State Performance of a New Renewable Alcohol-To-Jet (ATJ) Fuel in Multiple Diesel Engines
- Terrence Dickerson, Andy McDaniel, Sherri Williams, Dianne Luning Prak, Len Hamilton, Eric Bermudez, Jim Cowart
- SAE 2015 World Congress and Exhibition, Detroit, MI, April 2015
Alternative fuels: Surrogate Mixture Development (talks)
- Catalytic hydrothermal conversion fuel: Characterization, development of a surrogate fuel mixture, and engine combustion alcohol-to-jet renewable jet fuel: Characterization,development of a surrogate fuel mixture, and engine combustion
- Dianne Luning Prak, Sonya Ye, Margaret McLaughlin, Paul Trulove, Jim Cowart
- 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Washington, DC, August 2017.
- Hydrodepolymerized Cellulosic Diesel Fuel (HDCD) characterization, development of a surrogate fuel mixture, and engine combustion alcohol-to-jet renewable jet fuel: Characterization,development of a surrogate fuel mixture, and engine combustion
- Dianne Luning Prak, Bridget Lee, Paul Trulove Jim Cowart
- 252dn American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA,August 2016
- Alcohol-to-jet renewable jet fuel: Characterization,development of a surrogate fuel mixture, and engine combustion
- Dianne Luning Prak, M. Hope Jones, Jim Cowart
- 249th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, March 2015
- Potential surrogate fuel mixtures for hydrotreated renewable diesel and jet fuel
- Dianne Luning Prak, Kate Brown, Paul Trulove, Jim Cowart, Len Hamilton
- 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, March 2014
- Algal-based hydrotreated renewable diesel: Characterization and development of a surrogate fuel mixture
- Dianne Luning Prak, David Hoang, Len Haminton, Jim Cowart
- 243th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, March 2013
Alternative fuels: Surrogate Mixture Development (student posters)
- Development of 3-Component Surrogate Mixtures for Catalytic Hydrothermal Conversion Diesel and Jet Fuels
- Sonya Ye, Margaret McLaughlin, Jim Cowart, Dianne Luning Prak
- 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Fransciso, CA, March 2017
- Using mixtures of trans-decahydronaphthalene and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene to model the properties of Hydrodepolymerized Cellulosic Diesel
- Bridget Lee, Dianne Luning Prak
- 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, March 2016
- Development of 2-component surrogate mixtures for alcohol-to-jet fuel
- M. Hope Jones, Dianne Luning Prak
- 249th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, March 2015
- Development of 2-component surrogate mixtures of hydrotreated renewable diesel and jet fuel
- Sarah Alexandre, Dianne Luning Prak, Paul Trulove
- 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, TX, March 2014
- Analyzing Properties of Alternative Fuels and Developing a Surrogate for Algal-Based Fuels
- David Hoang, Patrick Caton, Jim Cowart, Dianne Luning Prak
- 243th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, March 2012
Physical Properties of individual fuel components and multi-component mixtures: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Elucidating the Properties of Surrogate Fuels Mixtures using Molecular Dynamics (talk)
- Brian Morrow, Michah Gustafson, David Schall, Todd Knippenberg, Judith Harrison
- 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA, March 2016.
- MD Study of the Effect of Alkyl Aromatic Content on Thermophysical Properties of Surrogate Catalytic Hydrothermal Conversion Fuels (poster)
- Michah Gustafson, Brian Morrow, Sabina Maskey, Judith Harrison
- 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, CA, March 2017.
