Combustion Engineering Laboratory
Understanding combustion dynamics to reduce damage from explosions and to improve combustion methods
Many flammable substances can be used effectively as sources of energy if they are treated appropriately as fuel, while mishandling them can cause explosions or fires—in both cases the substance is burning. Our laboratory is trying to understand combustion mechanisms more deeply to create better combustion methods and technologies that will reduce the damage caused by flammable gas explosions.
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College of Engineering
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Engineering Science and Mechanics
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Faculty Name
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Hiroyasu Saito |
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Academic Society
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Combustion Society of Japan The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers ILASS-Japan Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. The Heat Transfer Society of Japan |
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Keyword
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Combustion, Explosion safety, Atomization, Laser-induced plasmas, Treatment of exhaust
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Study Fields
Combustion engineering, Thermal engineering, Fluid mechanics, Energy engineering
For Society
We are trying to develop a system to reduce damage caused by flammable gas explosions and to create combustion technologies that generate cleaner engine exhaust.
Research Themes
- Research on flammable gas explosions, including systems to reduce damage from explosions at nuclear power plants and numerical simulations of fire suppression phenomena
- Electric field added combustion
- Treating exhaust from combustion using laser-induced plasmas
- Basic research on liquid atomization