This CSIRO/RMIT co-funded scholarship provides a stipend of $32,841 per annum (pro-rata) for two years and successful applicants will also be awarded a Tuition Fee Scholarship. For details, please visit RMIT-CSIRO Masters by Research Scholarships.
The recipient of this scholarship will be using a "shock tube" to measure combustion properties such as ignition delay time of alternative fuels containing hydrogen.
With the growing pressure to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide, green alternative fuels including biodiesel, ethanol, methanol and hydrogen carrier fuels like ammonia are gaining increasing attention to power engines and heating processes. There is, however, a lack of information available on combustion properties of many of these net-zero carbon emission fuels such as autoignition delay times and branched chemical reaction rates. These properties are crucial for understanding and predicting the advent of knock in spark ignition engines as well as diesel knock in compression ignition engines. Knock is an objectionable noise due to abnormal combustion, which, if severe enough, can damage an engine. Shock tubes provide an excellent means of measuring important fuel properties like the autoignition delay time. Lasers can also be shone through the test section of a shock tube to collect spectroscopic data that can be used to measure chemical reaction rates that occur during combustion. This information is highly prized for validating computer simulations of combustion occurring not only in many engine types, but also in boilers and furnaces. The Masters candidate for this project will assemble a shock tube to perform these measurements mainly for hydrogen carrier fuels at pressures and temperatures found in real engines.
This CSIRO/RMIT co-funded scholarship provides a stipend of $32,841 per annum (pro-rata) for two years and successful applicants will also be awarded a Tuition Fee Scholarship. For details, please visit RMIT-CSIRO Masters by Research Scholarships.
One (1).
To be eligible for this scholarship you must:
Interested candidates should contact the RMIT supervisor by email at petros.lappas@rmit.edu.au. Please provide the following documentation to the RMIT supervisor in your email:
You should also submit an application for 'Admission Only' via the Online application service.
1 November 2021.
Applications will close when a candidate is selected.
Dr. Petros Lappas
Director – Aerosol & Green Engines Laboratory, School of Engineering, RMIT University
Email: petros.lappas@rmit.edu.au
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