Terese Løvås
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
Links:
- Publications registered in Cristin since 2009 (Norwegian catalogue)
Ongoing projects:
- SMARTCATS (EU Cost initiative)
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Bio4Fuels (FME, NFR + industry partners)
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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
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2006- |
Lecturer in Energy Technologies (associate empl.), School of Engineering and Material Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
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2005-2008 |
College Lecturer in Engineering, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK
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2003-2006 |
Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
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2002-2003 |
Research Associate, Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University, Sweden
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Courses
- TEP4541 - Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics, Specialisation Project
- TEP4926 - Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics, Master's Thesis
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
- (2022) Chemical Model for Thermal Treatment of Sewage Sludge. ChemEngineering. vol. 6 (1).
- (2021) Varying Ignition Quality of a Fuel for a HCCI Engine Using a Photochemically-Controlled Additive: The Development of a ‘Smart’ Fuel. Energies. vol. 14 (5).
- (2021) Detailed examination of the combustion of diesel and glycerol emulsions in a compression ignition engine. Fuel. vol. 291.
- (2021) Determination of zero dimensional, apparent devolatilization kinetics for biomass particles at suspension firing conditions. Energies. vol. 14 (4).
- (2021) Numerical investigation of glycerol/diesel emulsion combustion in compression ignition conditions using Stochastic Reactor Model. Fuel. vol. 310 (B).
- (2021) Curvature effects on NO formation in wrinkled laminar ammonia/hydrogen/nitrogen-air premixed flames. Combustion and Flame. vol. 232.
- (2021) Surrogate Reaction Mechanism for Waste Incineration and Pollutant Formation. Energy & Fuels. vol. 35 (9).
- (2021) CFD modeling of biomass combustion and gasification in fluidized bed reactors using a distribution kernel method. Combustion and Flame. vol. 236.
- (2021) Computationally efficient coarse-graining XDEM/CFD modeling of fixed-bed combustion of biomass. Combustion and Flame. vol. 238.
- (2020) Combustion and Soot Characteristics of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil Compression-Ignited Spray Flames. Fuel. vol. 266.
- (2020) Morphology and volume fraction of biomass particles in a jet flow during devolatilization. Fuel. vol. 278.
- (2020) Dimensional Decomposition of Turbulent Reacting Flows. Flow Turbulence and Combustion. vol. 106.
- (2020) Computational fluid dynamic simulations of thermochemical conversion of pulverized biomass in a dilute flow using spheroidal approximation. Fuel. vol. 271.
- (2020) The influence of size and morphology on devolatilization of biomass particles. Fuel. vol. 264.
- (2020) Numerical investigation of optimal flow conditions in an optically accessed compression ignition engine. Transportation Engineering. vol. 2.
- (2020) Effects of scaling laws on the combustion and NOx characteristics of hydrogen burners. Combustion and Flame. vol. 214.
- (2020) Stochastic Reactor-Based Fuel Bed Model for Grate Furnaces. Energy & Fuels. vol. 34 (12).
- (2020) Grid-independent Eulerian-Lagrangian approaches for simulations of solid fuel particle combustion. Chemical Engineering Journal.
- (2019) Diffuse Back-Illuminated Extinction Imaging of Soot: Effects of Beam Steering and Flame Luminosity. SAE technical paper series. vol. 2019-January (January).
- (2019) Optical Measurements of In-Flame Soot in Compression-Ignited Methyl Ester Flames. Energy & Fuels. vol. 33.