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22nd International Symposium on Combustion Processes This special section of Energy & Fuels contains selected papers from the 22nd edition of the International Symposium on Combustion Processes (ISoCP 2015), held on September 22− 25, 2015, in Polish Jurassic Highland, Poland. The International Symposium on Combustion Processes has more than a 50 year tradition as the most important scientific event in Poland in the field of combustion science. It is organized every 2 years under the auspices of the Section of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Section of the Combustion Institute. The first symposium was organized in 1968. Originally, they were intended to provide a meeting place for scientists from the east and the west. Over the years, many distinguished scholars attended and presented papers and some of them came regularly for years. The Institute of Thermal Technology of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice had the honor of being the organizer of the 22nd edition of the symposium. The conference was held in Orle Gniazdo Hotel (The Eagle’s Nest) situated in the heart of the picturesque Polish Jurassic Highland (Jura Region). The Jura Region is a unique area in terms of both its history and its geography and lies in the south-central part of Poland, caught between Cracow in the south and Czestochowa in the north. Its main attractions include beautifully shaped karst landforms in Jurassic limestone, abundant caves, and medieval castles. The conference brought together 101 participants from 14 countries and 4 continents. The program of ISoCP 2015 included 70 oral presentations and over 30 posters covering a very broad range of topics, including gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels combustion chemistry and physics, combustion in engines, combustion-generated pollutants, high-temperature combustion, fires and explosions, detonations, combustion diagnostics, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, gasification, and alternative fuels. Seven plenary lectures were delivered: (1) Mario Ditaranto (Sintef, Norway), Gas turbine combustion in carbon capture technologies; (2) Bogdan Dlugogorski (Murdoch University, Australia), Formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/F) and related molecules in combustion processes; (3) Jouni Hamalainen (VTT, Finland), Role of fossil fuels power plants in energy systems; (4) Janusz Kozinski (York University, Canada), Oxidation and flames in supercritical water; (5) Simona Merola (Instituto Motori, Italy), Optical diagnostics of combustion anomalies in SI engine; (6) Andrzej Sobiesiak (University of Windsor, Canada), Advanced fuels and combustion strategies for reduced combustion emissions from automotive engines; and (7) Roman Weber (Technical University of Clausthal, Germany), Contemporary problems of pulverized fuel combustion. The keynote speakers, the members of the scientific committee, and all session chairs are thanked for their generous contributions. The Organizing Committee expresses its gratitude to the Energy & Fuels editorial board, who agreed © XXXX American Chemical Society
to devote a special section of the journal to publish the selected papers presented at ISoCP 2015.
Andrzej Szlek, Conference Chair
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Institute of Thermal Technology, Silesian Technical University, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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Special Issue: International Symposium on Combustion Processes Received: April 29, 2016
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b00956 Energy Fuels XXXX, XXX, XXX−XXX
