Ammonia and Hydrogen for Green Energy Transition

本書的主題涉及零碳向量燃料（如氨或氫）在實際情境中的應用性。這本專著廣泛討論了氨燃料在內燃機和燃氣渦輪機應用中的適用性或挑戰。它提供了關於通過催化膜反應器進行氨裂解以生產氫氣的深入見解。本書還討論了氨燃燒的NOx減排技術，如MILD燃燒、兩段式燃燒、多孔輔助燃燒、等離子體燃燒和高壓燃燒。本書還提供了關於氨和氫燃燒的化學動力學的詳細信息。本書對於對綠色能源和相關領域感興趣的研究人員和專業人士來說是一本有價值的參考資料。

Prof. Sudarshan Kumar: Prof. Sudarshan Kumar joined IIT Bombay in 2006, and he is Institute Chair Professor since March 2021. He was Head of the Department, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay (2020-2023). He was a visiting professor at the Space Propulsion Research Center, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2015-2016. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. K. Maruta in the Energy Dynamics Laboratory, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, from 2004-2006. He received his Master's (2000) and PhD degrees (2004) from the Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, with Prof. P. J. Paul and Prof. H. S. Mukunda. His research interests include microcombustion, pattern formation of flames, laminar burning velocity measurement, flame dynamics in microchannels, numerical modeling of flame propagation, MILD/flameless combustion with gaseous, liquid fuels, and biofuels, spray combustion, lifted flames and their modeling, modeling of combustion systems, and emission reduction from combustion systems. He has successfully completed 3 international and 18 prestigious national projects along with his research team at IIT Bombay. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Defense Science Journal (2020).

Prof. Kumar has authored over 300 research articles in international journals and conferences. He was selected for Marquis Who's Who in the World, 27th Edition (2009). He is the first prize winner of the SAFRAN-French Embassy Awards (2007) for his PhD thesis in the aerospace engineering field. He has been awarded the 'IIT Bombay Research Publication Award' (2022), the 'INAE Young Associate' (2013), and the 'IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award for the Year 2011' (2012). He received the prestigious Dr. Bernard Lewis Fellowship (as a bright young combustion scientist) in 2002. He is a fellow of several professional societies, including the Combustion Institute USA (2022), the IndianNational Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2022), the associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (2022), fellow of International Society for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ISEES) (2020). He has been acting as Member, Board of Governors, IIT Jammu, Jammu (J&K) since 2018; Member, Finance Committee, IIT Jammu, Jammu (J&K) since 2020; Member, Management Council, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India; Member, Research Advisory Committee, G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering and Management, Pune, 2019; and Member, Executive Committee, Combustion Institute, Indian Section (2012-13 and since 2022).

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal: Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Engine Research Center, UW@Madison, USA (1999-2001). His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions and particulate control, 1-D and 3-D Simulations of engine processes, and large-bore engines. Prof. Agarwal has published 525+ peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 63 edited books, 129 chapters, 16200+ Scopus, and 24494+ Google Scholar citations. He is an editor of FUEL, associated editor of the SAE Journal of Engines, and the ASME Open Journal of Engineering. He has edited "Handbook of Combustion" (5 Volumes; 3168 pages), published by Wiley VCH, Germany.

Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE (2012), a Fellow of ASME (2013), a Fellow of ISEES (2015), a Fellow of INAE (2015), a Fellow of NASI (2018), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018), a Fellow of American Association of Advancement in Science (2020) and a Fellow of Combustion Institute (2022). For his outstanding contributions, Prof. Agarwal is conferred upon Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (2019) by SERB, SAE India Foundation GURU Award (2022), WSSET Innovation Award-2022, Clarivate Analytics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2016) in Engineering Sciences, Rajib Goyal Prize in Physical Sciences (2015); NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award (2012); INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award (2012); Dr C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award (2011); SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award (2008); INSA Young Scientist Award (2007); UICT Young Scientist Award (2007); INAE Young Engineer Award (2005); Devendra Shukla Research Fellowship (2009-12), Poonam and Prabhu Goyal Endowed Chair Professorship (2013-16), SBI Endowed Chair Professorship (2018-21, 2022-25) at IIT Kanpur; AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers (2004); DST Young Scientist Award (2002); and DST BOYSCAST Fellowship (2002), in addition to inaugural version of Distinguished Alumni Award-2021 by MNIT Jaipur and Distinguished Alumni Award-2022 by IIT Delhi. Prof. Agarwal was a highly cited researcher (2018) in thetop ten HCR from India among 4000 HCR researchers globally in 22 fields of inquiry. He is India's number one Energy researcher in the recently declared Stanford University listing of the top 2% of researchers globally. Also, he has been nominated for Member of the Council of Indian Institute of Technology by the President of India for three years (2022-2025). He is featured in the DST Golden Jubilee Coffee Table Book "75 under 50 Scientists Shaping Today's INDIA," released by Vigyan Prasar, Government of India, on National Science Day, February 28th, 2022.

Dr. Bhupendra Khandelwal: Dr. Bhupendra Khandelwal joined The University of Alabama as an associate professor for fuels and combustion. He is working on combustion, emissions, and performance of alternative fuel to be used in gas turbine engines and other combustion sources. Prior to this position, Khandelwal held a position of assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Sheffield in theLow Carbon Combustion Centre (LCCC). He was leading combustion and emissions research areas at LCCC.

Dr. Khandelwal has worked closely with a large range of industries, government organizations and universities, including U.S. DOE, FAA, Siemens, Rolls-Royce, UK MOD and Dstl. Dr. Khandelwal is an Associate editor in the Aeronautical Journal, published by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), the International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment, and the International Journal of Rotating Machinery. He is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow; Royal Aeronautical Society member; American Society of Mechanical Engineers Combustion, Fuels and Emissions committee member; and AIAA Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee Member. He is also recipient of a Royal Aeronautical Society Centennial Scholar, ASME IGTI Student Scholar for two consecutive years in 2011 and 2012, and the IMechE Grant. Khandelwal serves as the technical area organizer for AIAA conference and as a reviewer for different scientific journals and U.S. DOE and European Commission for alternative fuels and hydrogen related projects. He was point of contact for ASME Turbo Expo 2020 on behalf of the alternative fuels technical committee. His research on fuels, emissions, combustion, and combustors is widely published in journals and conferences. He has delivered several invited talks at prestigious conferences and meetings including UK fuels standards committee, Aviation Fuels Committee 2018, Aero India, and Coordinating Research Council. He has also delivered tutorials at international conferences.

Dr. Paramvir Singh currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Agartala. He completed a postdoctoral research in the Combustion Chemistry Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway in 2022, followed by another postdoc focusing on fuels and combustion at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. In 2019, he also conducted a visiting postdoc in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. Singh earned his Master's degree and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India, in 2013 and 2019, respectively. His research interests span a wide range of topics, including renewable energy, fuel, combustion systems, emission control, gasification, and waste-to-energy technologies.

He has a prolific publication record, with more than 50 research articles in international journals and conferences, as well as eight book chapters/monographs. Dr. Singh has received numerous accolades for his contributions to the field, including the 'Young Scientist Award' by the International Society for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability in 2022, the 'Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) Award: Post-Doctoral Category' by Indo-Canadian Shastri Institute (SICI) in 2020, the 'Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) Award' by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2020, and the 'Bioenergy Award for Cutting Edge Research' by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum in 2018. As a part of this award, he worked at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland in the United States. He was also selected as one of 50 young scientists worldwide to participate in Research Opportunities Week (ROW) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2019. Additionally, he has received two best research paper awards and one best poster presentation award at international/national conferences/workshops hosted by various prestigious institutions. Dr. Singh has been serving as the Associate Editor of the SAE International Journal of Engines (ESCI, Scopus Indexed) since 2022 and as the Academic Editor of the International Journal of Rotating Machinery, published by Hindawi Publishing (ESCI, Scopus Indexed) since 2020. He successfully completed one funded project of INR 7.91 million. He presently has two ongoing research projects of more than INR 10 million from the Royal Academy of Engineering UK and the Department of Science and Technology India.

Prof. Sudarshan Kumar: Prof. Sudarshan Kumar於2006年加入孟買印度理工學院（IIT Bombay），並自2021年3月起擔任該學院的院長教授。他曾擔任孟買印度理工學院航空航天工程系系主任（2020-2023）。他於2015-2016年間擔任韓國首爾國立大學工學院太空推進研究中心的訪問教授。他曾在2004-2006年間與東北大學能源動力學實驗室的K. Maruta教授合作擔任博士後研究員。他在印度班加羅爾的印度科學研究所航空航天工程系獲得碩士學位（2000年）和博士學位（2004年），指導教授為P. J. Paul教授和H. S. Mukunda教授。他的研究興趣包括微燃燒、火焰的形態形成、層流燃燒速度測量、微通道中的火焰動力學、火焰傳播的數值模擬、氣體、液體燃料和生物燃料的MILD/無焰燃燒、噴霧燃燒、提升火焰及其模擬、燃燒系統的模擬以及燃燒系統的排放減少。他與他在孟買印度理工學院的研究團隊成功完成了3個國際項目和18個重要的國內項目。他是《國防科學期刊》（2020年）的編輯委員會成員。

Prof. Kumar在國際期刊和會議上發表了300多篇研究論文。他被選為《世界名人錄》第27版（2009年）的成員。他是SAFRAN-French Embassy Awards（2007年）的一等獎得主，該獎項是他在航空航天工程領域的博士論文。他獲得了“孟買印度理工學院研究出版獎”（2022年）、“INAE青年成員”（2013年）和“2011年孟買印度理工學院年度青年研究者獎”（2012年）。他於2002年獲得了著名的Dr. Bernard Lewis Fellowship（作為一位優秀的年輕燃燒科學家）。他是多個專業學會的會士，包括美國燃燒學會（2022年）、印度國家工程學院（INAE）（2022年）、美國航空航天學會（AIAA）的副會士（2022年）和國際能源、環境和可持續發展學會（ISEES）的會士（2020年）。自2018年以來，他一直擔任印度理工學院賈姆穆（J&K）理工學院理事會成員，自2020年起擔任賈姆穆（J&K）理工學院財務委員會成員，並擔任印度浦那薩維特里拜·普萊大學管理委員會成員，2019年擔任G. H. Raisoni工程與管理學院研究諮詢委員會成員，以及燃燒學會印度分會執行委員會成員（2012-13年和2022年至今）。

Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal: Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal於2001年加入印度坎普爾理工學院（IIT Kanpur）。他曾在1999-2001年間在美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校的引擎研究中心擔任博士後研究員。他的研究興趣包括內燃機、燃燒、替代和傳統燃料、潤滑油摩擦學、光學診斷、激光點火、HCCI、排放和顆粒控制、引擎過程的1-D和3-D模擬以及大口徑引擎。Avinash Kumar Agarwal教授在國際期刊和會議上發表了525多篇同行評審的論文，編輯了63本專著，撰寫了129篇章節，Scopus引用次數超過16200次，Google Scholar引用次數超過24494次。他是《燃料》的編輯，也是SAE Journal of Engines和ASME Open Journal of Engineering的副編輯。他編輯了由Wiley VCH出版的《燃燒手冊》（5卷；3168頁）。

Avinash Kumar Agarwal教授是SAE（2012年）、ASME（2013年）、ISEES（2015年）、INAE（2015年）、NASI（2018年）、皇家化學學會（2018年）、美國科學促進協會（2020年）和燃燒學會（2022年）的會士。為了他的傑出貢獻，Avinash Kumar Agarwal教授獲得了SERB頒發的Sir J C Bose國家獎學金（2019年）、SAE India Foundation GURU獎（2022年）和WSSET創新獎-2022。他是印度理工學院賈姆穆（J&K）理工學院理事會成員（自2018年起），賈姆穆（J&K）理工學院財務委員會成員（自2020年起），浦那薩維特里拜·普萊大學管理委員會成員，2019年G. H. Raisoni工程與管理學院研究諮詢委員會成員，以及燃燒學會印度分會執行委員會成員（2012-13年和2022年至今）。