Combustion Chemistry and the Carbon Neutral Future

Dr. Brezinsky received his B.S. degree from the City College of New York with Honors in Chemistry. After devoting a few years to teaching science at the secondary school level he returned to the City University of New York to pursue graduate studies where he received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. At the completion of his graduate work, Dr. Brezinsky joined the Chemistry Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Subsequently, he went to the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Princeton University to join the Fuels Research Laboratory of Professor I. Glassman as a Professional Research Staff member. Dr. Brezinsky was promoted to Research Scientist and then Senior Research Scientist. In 1996, Dr. Brezinsky was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and in 2003 assumed his current position as Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Brezinsky has published over two hundred publications and made more than one hundred seventy scientific presentations. He is the former Associate and Deputy Editor of the journal Combustion Science and Technology (1986-1996), and has been recognized for his contribution to combustion science by his designation as an Inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute.

1. Combustion emissions, internal combustion engines and greenhouse gases 2. Soot Research: Relevance and Priorities by Mid-Century 3. Natural Gas for Combustion Systems 4. Sustainable bio-oxygenate fuels 5. A comprehensive perspective on a promising fuel for thermal engines: syngas and its surrogates 6. Hydrogen, The Zero Carbon Fuel 7. Ammonia as an alternative 8. Small alcohols as low carbon fuels 9. Fischer-Tropsch and other synthesized hydrocarbon fuels 10. Low temperature combustion 11. Supercritical CO2 Fluid Combustion 12. Catalytic combustion for cleaner burning 13. Advances in Chemical Looping Combustion Technology 14. Chemistry diagnostics for monitoring 15. High-pressure spectroscopy and sensors for combustion 16. Bio-derived sustainable aviation fuels – On the verge of powering our future 17. Using Combustion Synthesis to Convert Emissions into Useful Materials