Terese Løvås
Professor, Head of Department
Department of Energy and Process Engineering Faculty of EngineeringBackground and activities
Head of Department
Professor in Thermodynamics and Combustion
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Area of Work:
- Theoretical and experimental research within the field of combustion/gasification and alternative fuels (bio, hydrogen).
- Modeling of gasification processes of solid biofuels (reactive multiphase flows) for biofuel production.
- Head of Engine Laboratory Department of Energy and Process Engineering
- Teaching: Thermodynamics, Heat and Combustion
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Ongoing projects:
- SMARTCATS (EU Cost initiative)
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Bio4Fuels (FME, NFR + industry partners)
- GASPRO (NFR)
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HYCAP (NFR)
- BioCarb+ (NFR + industry partners)
- GrateCFD (NFR + industry partners)
- GAFT (NFR + industry partners)
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C3BO (DSF + industry partners)
Other:
Terese Løvås is a member of:
- Churchill College, Cambridge University, Alumni Fellow in Engineering
- The Combustion Institute Scandinavian-Nordic Section
- Consortium On Computational Combustion For Engineering Applications
- Institute of Physics
Short CV:
| 2008-2014 | Professor II i Process and Gas technologi Department of Engeneering Science and Safety, University of Tromsø, Norway |
| 2006- | Lecturer in Energy Technologies (associate empl.), School of Engineering and Material Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK |
| 2005-2008 | College Lecturer in Engineering, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2003-2006 | Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2002-2003 | Research Associate, Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University, Sweden |
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) Three-dimensional Linear Eddy Modeling of a Turbulent Lifted Hydrogen Jet Flame in a Vitiated Co-flow. Flow Turbulence and Combustion.
- (2018) High temperature gasification of high heating-rate chars using a flat-flame reactor. Applied Energy. vol. 227.
- (2018) Cold flow characteristics of a novel bluff body hydrogen burner. International journal of hydrogen energy. vol. 43 (14).
- (2018) An evaluation of effects of operational parameters on NOx emissions through detailed chemical kinetics simulations. Energy Procedia.
- (2018) An Alternative Approach for the Estimation of Biochar Yields. Energy & Fuels. vol. 32 (9).
- (2017) The effect of turbulence on mass transfer rates of small inertial particles with surface reactions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. vol. 836.
- (2017) Methane thermal decomposition in regenerative heat exchanger reactor: Experimental and modeling study. Energy. vol. 135.
- (2017) Correlation effects between turbulence and the conversion rate of pulverized char particles. Combustion and Flame. vol. 185.
- (2017) The effect of turbulent clustering on particle reactivity. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. vol. 36 (2).
- (2017) CFD Simulation of Devolatilization of Biomass with Shrinkage Effect. Energy Procedia. vol. 105.
- (2017) Gasification of High Heating-rate Biomass-derived Chars at Elevated Temperatures. Energy Procedia. vol. 105.
- (2017) The techno-economics of biocarbon production processes under Norwegian conditions. Energy & Fuels. vol. 31 (12).
- (2017) CO2 gasification of chars prepared by fast and slow pyrolysis from wood and forest residue. A kinetic study. Energy & Fuels. vol. 32 (1).
- (2017) Study of CO2 gasification reactivity of biocarbon produced at different conditions. Energy Procedia. vol. 142.
- (2017) Stochastic reactor modeling of biomass pyrolysis and gasification. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. vol. 124.
- (2016) NOx emissions and turbulent flow field in a partially premixed bluff body burner with CH4 and H2 fuels. International journal of hydrogen energy. vol. 41 (28).
- (2016) Stochastic reactor model aiding experimental HCCI engine operating on surrogate bio-producer gas. SAE technical paper series. vol. 2016-Octobeer.
- (2016) Detailed operational mapping of a grate fired Biomass combustion plant for improved combustion process control. Chemical Engineering Transactions. vol. 50.
- (2016) Operational mapping of a grate fired biomass combustion plant for improved process control. European biomass conference and exhibition proceedings. vol. 2016 (24).
- (2016) CFD simulation of industrial-sized biomass furnace. European biomass conference and exhibition proceedings. vol. 2016.