UCLA Parents' Weekend 2015

Oct 30, 2015 - Nov 01, 2015 | All Day

UCLA Parents' Weekend is our annual, 3-day family event jam-packed with exciting campus activities, important information about campus resources and quality time with your student. http://parentsweekend.ucla.edu

Nov 06, 2015 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Nov 06, 2015 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Nov 12, 2015 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Abstract: The Worlds energy consumption is growing rapidly. Hydrocarbons will remain the major primary energy source for many decades, prompting concerns over CO2 and its climate impact. Near-term strategies, including higher conversion and utilization efficiency, CO2 capture and expanding renewables should be pursued vigorously. Combustion research must contribute aggressively towards these goals, including work on gas-phase oxy-combustion, membrane-supported thermochemistry and chemical looping combustion. The latter options reduce the energy penalty in oxygen production, but need special catalytic surfaces, device design and system integration. I will review some of our recent work addressing these challenges. Premixed oxy-fuel combustion offers significant advantages, including retrofit, but experiences similar dynamics and instabilities to air combustion. I will cover our recent experimental and numerical work on the subject, some of the fundamental similarities and difference between the two processes and how progress in turbulent combustion and kinetics will enable better implementation of this promising technology. Biosketch: Ahmed F. Ghoniem is the Ronald C Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the director of the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Cairo University, and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nov 13, 2015 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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MAE | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering