12th Mediterranean Combustion Symposium MCS-12
23.01.2023 - 26.01.2023 | Luxor- Egypt
Second Announcement

COMMITTEES
Program co-chairs
• Dr. Federico Beretta, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli – ITALY. Former Research Director at CNR. beretta@irc.cnr.it• Prof. Nevin Selçuk Department of Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara – TURKEY. selcuk@metu.edu.tr
• Prof. Mohy S. Mansour, Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Cairo University, Cairo – EGYPT. mansourm@aucegypt.edu
• Prof. Andrea D’Anna, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples – ITALY. andrea.danna@unina.it
Advisory board
• Prof. Ömer L. Gülder, University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto - Canada.• Prof. Dr. Görkem Külah, Middle East Technical University, Chemical Engineering, Ankara - Turkey.
• Prof. Assaad Masri, University of Sydney, School of Aerospace Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering, Sydney - Australia
• Prof. Epaminondas Mastorakos, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge - England.
• Prof. William Robert, Clean Combustion Research Center- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology –KAUST, Thuwal - Saudi Arabia.
• Dr. Franco Tamanini, Factory Mutual, Norwood - USA.
Twelfth Mediterranean Combustion Symposium Overview
The symposium is the twelfth in a series on combustion and related topics, held by the scientific communities from countries around the Mediterranean. The first Mediterranean Combustion Symposium was held in Antalya, Turkey, June 1999, the second took place in Sharm El- Sheikh, Egypt, January 2002, the third in Marrakech, Morocco, June 2003, the fourth in Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005, the fifth in Monastir, Tunisia, September 2007, the Sixth in Corsica, France, June 2009, the seventh in Chia Laguna, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, September 2011, the eighth in Cesme, Turkey, September 2013, the ninth in Rhodes, Greece, June 2015, the tenth in Napoli-Italy, September 2017, and the eleventh in Tenerife, Spain, June 2019.
The Symposium has grown in the years becoming an important conference in Combustion. The quality of many of the accepted papers is considered to be within the top published papers in most combustion journals. The objective of the conference is to give combustion scientists, particularly engineers and students from the Mediterranean area, the opportunity to get together for the dissemination of state-of-the-art advances in combustion research and to enhance future collaborative research activities between scientists from different geographic areas. All topics and all the scientific/technological approaches in the combustion field are pertinent to this Symposium.
The organizing committee and the colloquia co-chairs are composed of international experts in various disciplines of combustion.
The technical program will consist of invited lectures by eminent specialists from all over the world, oral presentation of the contributed papers and posters of the work-in-progress. A set of contributed papers will be selected for post-conference publication in well-known combustion journals as it was for the previous symposia.
The Symposium is structured so as to maximize contact and interactions and includes an interesting social program.
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Submission
Send the paper in both PDF and Word format to:
mcs12-papers@esre-egypt.comFor any problem please contact:
Prof. Mohy Mansour (Symposium Co-Chair)
Mechanical Power Engineering DepartmentCairo University
Tel: +201221630863
mansour@niles.edu.eg; mansourm@aucegypt.edu
Instructions
Prospective authors please follow the instructions carefully before submitting a paper.
The instructions are on the web site:www.mcsymposium.com
Note that full version of contributed papers will have to be submitted.
Deadlines
June 13th, 2022: Submission of full paperAugust 5th, 2022: Notification of acceptance
Selection procedure
Authors are encouraged to indicate their choice of Colloquium topic. Colloquium Co- Chairs and Program Co-Chairs will coordinate review of the manuscripts in their topic area. They will review the papers or solicit and evaluate written reviews of the papers. For manuscripts that cannot be placed in one of the Colloquium areas, reviews will be coordinated by the Program Co-Chairs.
Publication
The accepted papers will be available during the Symposium on flash memory. Papers, selected by a peer-review process, will be published in special issues of top journals as they were at the previous symposium.
For further information please visit:www.mcsymposium.com
WORK IN PROGRESS PRESENTATION/FLASH PRESENTATION
Work in Progress and/or Flash Presentation
Send the abstract in both PDF and Word format to:mcs12-wip@esre-egypt.com
Instructions
The Symposium organizes 3 minutes flash presentations for the WIP. In addition, Flash presentations are also offered without WIP posters. Both submissions are allowed. The title, the authors and their affiliations and the text must fit in a page typed single space with 12 pt Times New Roman font. The maximum size of the text must be 164x230 mm. Authors' names and affiliations must be centered under the title at the top of the page. On a separate page send corresponding author's complete address and the Colloquium in which the presentation is considered appropriate. The author should indicate the type of submission, either WIP or Flash presentation. The format above is applicable for both.
Deadlines
August 15th, 2022: Submission of abstract
August 29th, 2022: Notification of acceptancePublication
The WIP and Flash presentations will be available during the Symposium on flash memory.Selection procedure
The Program Committee Co-Chairs will select the appropriate works for poster and Flash presentations which will be carried out in parallel with oral Colloquia of Contributed Papers. Authors are encouraged to indicate their Colloquium choice on a separate page in order to schedule the poster sessions.PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
8th Workshop on Measurement and Computation of Turbulent Spray Combustion
(TCS8), 22nd January 2023
For more details check the following website:
http://wwwaggutheil.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/tcs/
SYMPOSIUM COLLOQUIA
• LAMINAR FLAMES
Including experiments and modelling.
• REACTION KINETICS AND REDUCED MECHANISMS
Including the chemistry of hydrocarbons, biofuels, oxygenated fuels, and reductionmethodologies.
• POLLUTANT FORMATION AND CONTROL
Including the physical and chemical processes affecting the formation, growth, anddestruction of NOx, SOx, soot, PAH, dioxins, and other large molecules.
• COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS
Including the development and application of diagnostics for the understanding andcontrol of combustion phenomena and radiative transfer.
• TURBULENT COMBUSTION
Including experiments, theory, and simulations applied to turbulent flames.• HETEROGENEOUS COMBUSTION AND PYROLYSIS
Including fundamental aspects of pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion of solid fuels (e.g., coal, char, and biomass) as well as combustion of propellants and catalytic combustion.• STATIONARY COMBUSTION SYSTEMS and ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Including combustion in fluidized beds, incineration, utility boilers, plants and industrial applications.• FIRE and EXPLOSIONS
Including fundamental aspects of fires as well as applications to building constructionand urban/wildland fires.
• ENGINE, GAS TURBINE AND SPRAY COMBUSTION
Including simulations and experiments and novel processes and fuels for these applications.• CO2 CAPTURE PROCESSES AND NEW COMBUSTION CONCEPTS
Including oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, gasification, and other novel processes.• ENERGY STORAGE AND ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE FUELS
Including the generation and combustion of renewable fuels, e.g. biogas, syngas, biodiesel, and ammonia. This colloquium also includes techniques of energy storage.INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
• KLAS ANDERSSON
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
o Presentation title: "Industrial High-Temperature Processes - Development of Alternative Firing Strategies”
• HENRY CURRAN
National University of Ireland, Galway, Irelando Presentation title: "Developing Detailed Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms for Fuel Combustion”
• BASSAM DALLY
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, SAo Presentation title: "Hydrogen Peroxide Fuel Oxidation: Fundamentals and Applications”
• ABDURRAHAMN KHALIDI
Chief Technology Officer of GE Power for Middle East, North Africa, South Asia
o Presentation title: "Role of Hydrogen Combustion in the Decarbonization of Power Sector”
• MOHY S. MANSOUR
Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypto Presentation title: "Combustion Stability”
• AGUSTIN VALERA-MEDINA
Cardiff School of Engineering, U.Ko Presentation title: "Ammonia for Net Zero Combustion”
• BRENT W. WEBB
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Utah, USAo Presentation title: "The Spectral Line Weighted-Sum-of-Gray-Gases (SLW) Model for Prediction of Radiative Transfer in High Temperature Gases”
Registration
Deadline for early bird registration 31st August 2022
Full $ 900
Students $540
Late registration after 31st August 2022
Full $ 1000
Students $640
On-site registration
Full $ 1150
Students $740
Registration for accompanying persons
Full $480($360 without gala dinner)
($250 without gala dinner and lunches)
Registration fees include:
• Participants: Admission to technical sessions, conference kit, attendance certificate, coffee breaks, welcome cocktail, farewell cocktail, lunches, excursion, and Gala dinner.
• Students: Admission to technical sessions, conference kit, attendance certificate, coffee breaks, welcome cocktail, farewell cocktail, lunches, and excursion
• Accompanying visitors: lunches at the hotel, excursion, Gala dinner, welcome cocktail, and farewell cocktail.
Additional costs:• $20 Transfer from Luxor airport to hotel and return.
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