Undergraduate Students

Former Students

Postdoctoral Scholars and Ph.D. Students:

Cloud Heng – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: (TBA)

Pascal Boudreau – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Aluminum as a circular energy carrier: techno-economic and reactivity considerations using high-temperature water oxidation

Sandeep Jella – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Large eddy simulation of autoignition and blow-off phenomena in lean-premixed gas turbine combustion

Marie Meulemans – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Quantitative NO-LIF measurements of thermal-NO in methane and hydrogen flames – the uncertain predictions of a seemingly well-established pathway

Tao Yu – Postdoctoral scholar
Research title: The development of optical diagnostics and their application to study aluminum combustion phenomen

Antoine Durocher – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: Towards robust nitrogen chemistry model development: Uncertainty quantification and prediction capability in atmospheric and elevated-pressure premixed flames

Julien Lambert – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Study of the hydrodynamic and thermal effects of nanosecond repetitive pulsed discharges in plasma-assisted combustion

Keena Trowell – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: High-temperature and supercritical water oxidation of metals for hydrogen and heat production

Mathew Evans – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Pulsed plasma generator development and low-temperature plasma-assisted combustion at atmospheric pressure

Carl Regis Bauwens – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: Combustion in heat-recirculating burners for efficient and clean power production

Ehsan Abbassi Atibeh – Ph.D. student
Thesis title: The effects of differential diffusion in counter-flow premixed flames with dilution and enrichment

Pablo Diaz Gomez Maqueo – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with S. Coulombe)
Thesis title: Non-thermal plasma discharges for methane reforming

Michael Soo – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with D. Frost)
Ph.D. Thesis title: Thermal structure of flames in metal particle suspensions
Master’s Thesis title: Aluminum dust concentration effect on combustion in hydrocarbon bunsen flames

Mohamed Laila – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with J. Whalen)
Thesis title: Spatial and temporal optimization of advanced biofuel supply chains in the United States: an integrated platform

Philippe Versailles – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: CH formation in premixed flames of C1–C4 alkanes: assessment of current chemical modelling capability against experiments

George Gauthier – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: Combustion in heat-recirculating burners for efficient and clean power production

Philippe Julien – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with D. Frost) and Postdoctoral scholar
Thesis title: On the study of flames in aluminum and iron suspensions

Farzam Fotovat – Ph.D. student (co-supervised with J. Chaouki)
Thesis title: Characterization of hydrodynamics and solids mixing in fluidized beds involving biomass

Sean Salusbury – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Scholar
Thesis title: Experiments in laminar and turbulent premixed counter-flow flames at variable Lewis number

Graeme Watson – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Scholar
Thesis title: The influence of interfacial heat transfer on stable flame propagation in small channels

Benjamin Akih-Kumgeh – Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Scholar
Thesis title: Shock tube studies and chemical kinetic modeling of oxygenated hydrocarbon ignition

M.Sc. and M.Eng. Students:

Oliver Fernie – M.Sc. student; co-founder of Hydral Energy
Thesis title: Design and testing of an Aluminium-Water Supercritical Continuous Flow Reactor

Ahmed Raslan – M.Sc. student
Thesis title: Towards cleaner combustion of Ammonia doped product gas

Ashley Bock – M.Sc. student
Thesis title: The separation and collection of supercritical metal-water reaction products to enable the use of aluminum as a circular energy carrier

Julien Otis-Laperrièr – M.Sc. student
Thesis title: On valuing chemical energy carriers used for long duration energy storage and energy trade in net-zero energy systems

Sebastian Hampl – M.Sc. student
Thesis title: Conceptual Design of ISRU Rocket Propulsion Systems for Space Exploration

Slater Covenden – M.Sc. student
Thesis title: Bayesian calibration of nitric oxide combustion chemistry for low emission hydrogen engines

Nicholas Pinkerton – M.Eng. student; now working at Altiro Energy
Thesis title: An assessment of the commercial feasibility of iron fuel for clean heat and power

Parinaz Farhadi – M.Eng. student; now working at FeX Energy
Thesis title: An energy storage system based on iron fuel

Benjamin Francolini – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Study of differential diffusion effects in lean, premixed, hydrogen-enriched low-swirl flames

Samson Bowen-Bronet – M.Eng. student; now working at Altiro Energy
Thesis title: Development of a turbulent iron burner for use as a clean energy carrier

Martin Aralov – M.Eng. student; now working at Altiro Energy
Thesis title: Particle collection system for iron fuel burner

Frederic Blais – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Effects of initial reactant temperature on flame speeds in aluminum dust suspensions

Santino Salvo – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Effect of acoustic forcing on flame front thermo-diffusive and parametric istabilities

Michelle McRae – M.Eng. student
Thesis title:

James Vickery – M.Eng. student (co-supervised with D. Frost)
Thesis title: Spherically-expanding flames in hybrid aluminum-methane-oxidizer mixtures

Antonio Lipardi – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Nitric Oxide formation and modelling uncertainty from exhaust-gas-diluted methane flames

Sam Whiteley – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Flame speeds and stretch effects in counterflow aluminum flames

Mathew Evans – M.Eng. student (co-supervised with S. Coulombe)
Thesis title: Pulsed plasma generator development and low-temperature plasma-assisted combustion at atmospheric pressure

Jeffrey Munzar – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Laminar flame speed of jet fuel surrogates and second generation biojet fuel blends

Bradley Denman – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Flame propagation of jet A-1 fuel and its surrogates

Gregory Chung – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Planar laser-induced fluorescence of nitric oxide in isomeric butanol and butane stagnation flames

Khalid Noorani – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Comparative chemical kinetic and experimental study of methanol, ethanol, n-propanol and n-butanol auto-ignition delay times

Robin Brakmann – M.Eng. student
Thesis title:

Bryan Fishbein – M.Eng. student
Thesis title: Combustion of surrogate jet fuel components in premixed stagnation flames