Sep 2023
Abstract
As the world moves to a Circular Carbon Economy mode, fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia have been suggested as alternatives to fossil-based fuels. Intense research efforts are underway to adopt those fuels to the many industrial systems that are currently operated on hydrocarbon fuels. The heavy industry is responsible for a third of CO2 emission and most of the emission comes from generating thermal energy rather than power. Also, most of this thermal energy is at high temperature or involve reduction processes and is deemed hard to abate. This seminar will provide an overview of the emission from heavy industry and examines ways where either hydrogen or ammonia can be utilized as a replacement of current hydrocarbon fuels. Examples of current research efforts and findings will also be presented and discussed, and a roadmap of research, development and deployment needs will also be presented.
Bio
Bassam Dally is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC), at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. Over the last 32 years, Prof Dally has contributed seminal work on a variety of research topics under the broad field of Thermo-Fluids. His major contributions are in turbulent reacting flows, MILD combustion, soot in flames, plasma propulsion, mineral processing, hybrid of concentrated solar thermal and combustion, alternative fuels and applied laser diagnostics. Lately, his work has focused on utilization of hydrogen and ammonia fuels to decarbonize industrial processes, plastic recycling, energy systems and fuel pyrolysis. He has published more than 230 papers in leading scientific journals, his work attracted ~7000 citations, and he is named on three patents. He held many positions, including head of mechanical engineering, deputy director of the centre for energy technology (University of Adelaide) and stream co-lead in the KAUST circular carbon initiative. Prof Dally is the president of Saudi Arabian Section of the Combustion Institute and is the Program Co-Chair for the 40th International Symposium on Combustion in Milan, Italy, 2024. He won many awards over the years, including ‘Energy Professional of the Year in South Australia’, and recently was awarded a Fellowship of the Combustion Institute.