Combustion research at Penn State`s Energy and Fuels Research Center

The history of coal and combustion research at Penn State is storied. The Combustion Laboratory was formed in 1949 and continues to serve the university and the combustion community as a unit of the Energy and Fuels Research Center (EFRC). A second EFRC unit added in 1992 is the National Center of Excellence for Coal Utilization (referred to as the Coal Utilization Center) which focuses on demonstration scale combustion activities. General characteristics of, and data for the Center are given in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. The purpose of this paper is to highlight selected accomplishments of the Center over the past decade. During this time almost $30 million of sponsored research has been conducted for dozens of sponsors by hundreds of researchers. The paper provides a flavor of the research conducted and the results obtained.