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| Sep. 2017 | Mr. Tomoya Okuno, Ph.D. candidate, participated the Japan-Russia Student Forum held at Vladivostok and met Japanese Prime Minister Abe. Link
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| 7 Sep. 2017 | Masaji Matsuyama, Minister of State for Special Missions, visited Japan-Russia Collaborative Laboratory at FEFU in Vladivostok. Link （in Japanese） |
| July 2017 | The following paper has been published. Sergey N. Mokrin, Egor S. Odintsov, Georgii V. Uriupin, Takuya Tezuka, Sergey S. Minaev, Kaoru Maruta, "Flammability Limit of Moderate- and Low-stretched Premixed Flames Stabilized in Planar Channel", Combustion and Flame, Vol.185, 261-264 (2017).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2017.07.023, Link |
| June 2017 | The degree of doctor honoris causa of Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia was awarded to Prof. Maruta. Link to FEFU website (In Russian)
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| June 2017 | The following paper has been published. Hisashi Nakamura, Susumu Hasegawa, Takuya Tezuka, "Kinetic modeling of ammonia/air weak flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.185, 16-27 (2017).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2017.06.021, Link |
| Jan. 2017 | The following paper has been published. Takashige Shimizu, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "OH- and CH2O-LIF measurements for hydrogen flames and methane, n-butane and dimethyl ether weak flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Energy & Fuels, Vol.31, Issue 3:2298-2307(2017).doi:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02325, Link |
| Oct. 2016 | Mr.Tomoya Okuno was awarded the Excellent Poster Award under 11th Asian Microgravity Symposium - 2016. (Link to a PDF in Japanese.) Link |
| Sep. 2016 | Prof. Maruta attended Eastern Economic Forum with President of Tohoku University, Susumu Satomi. (Link to a PDF in Japanese.) Link |
| Sep. 2016 | The following paper has been published. Ajit Kumar Dubey, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Hisashi Nakamura, Kaoru Maruta, "Study on sooting behavior of premixed C1-C4 n-alkanes/air flames using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.174, 100-110 (2016).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2016.09.007, Link |
| June 2016 | The following paper has been published. Tomoya Okuno, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Koichi Takase, Masato Katsuta, Masao Kikuchi, Kaoru Maruta, "Study on the combustion limit, near-limit extinction boundary, and flames regimes of low-Lewis-number CH4/O2/CO2 counterflow flames under microgravity", Combustion and Flame, Vol.172, 13-19 (2016). doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2016.07.001, Link |
| June 2016 | The following papers have been published. Hisashi Nakamura, Susumu Hasegawa, "Combustion and ignition characteristics of ammonia/air mixtures in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.36, Issue 3:4217–4226 (2017).doi:10.1016/j.proci.2016.06.153, Link Tomoya Okuno, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Ultra-lean combustion characteristics of premixed methane flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled
temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 3:4227–4233 (2017). Roman Fursenko, Sergey Minaev, Sergey Mokrin, Kaoru Maruta, "Diffusive-thermal instability of stretched low-Lewis-number flames of slot-jet counterflow burners", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.36, Issue 1:1613–1620 (2017). |
| June 2016 | The following paper has been published. Hisashi Nakamura, Hiroki Takahashi, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, Kazuki Abe, "Effects of CO-to-H2 ratio and diluents on ignition properties of syngas examined by weak flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.172, 94-104 (2016).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2016.06.024, Link |
| April 2016 | Prof. Hisashi Nakamura was awarded the Young Scientists’ Prize under the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology．
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| March 2016 | Mr. Philipp Grajetzki was awarded the President Fellowship under Tohoku University．Link |
| Dec. 2015 | The following paper has been published. Taisia Miroshnichenko, Vladimir Gubernov, Kaoru Maruta, Sergei Minaev, "Diffusive-Thermal oscillations of rich premixed hydrogen-air flames in a microflow reactor", Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol. 20, Issue 2:313-327 (2016). doi:10.1080/13647830.2015.1130858, Link |
| Sep. 2015 | The following paper has been published. Shogo Kikui, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Study on combustion and ignition characteristics of ethylene, propylene, 1-butene and 1-pentene in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.163, Issue 1：209–219 (2016).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.09.029 , Link |
| April 2015 | Prof. Kaoru Maruta was awarded the Prize for Science and Technology in the Research Category under the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology．
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| April 2015 | Dr.Hisashi Nakamura has promoted to associate professor. |
| March 2015 | The following paper has been published. Xing Li, Li Jia, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Study on flame responses and ignition characteristics of CH4/O2/CO2 mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol.84：360–367 (2015).doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.03.022, Link |
| Nov. 2014 | Russian President Vladimir Putin visited ICE Lab. (International Combustion and Energy Lab.) in Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia and talked on lab research activity with Prof. Kaoru Maruta who is a head of the ICE Laboratory. ICE lab is an international collaboration laboratory lead by Prof. Sergey Minaev as a Russian-side leader, and founded in 2014 under the support of the Russian Megagrant Project. Link (In Japanese) |
| Nov. 2014 | The following paper has been published. Roman Fursenko, Sergey Minaev, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Tomoya Kobayashi, Koichi Takase, Masato Katsuta, Masao Kikuchi, Kaoru Maruta, "Near-lean limit combustion regimes of low-Lewis-number stretched premixed flames", Combustion and Flame, Vol.162, Issue 5：1712–1718 (2015).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.11.032, Link |
| Nov. 2014 | We have moved. Prof's office: Room 509, IFS Bld. #2 Students room: Room 504 and 505, IFS Bld. #2 |
| Aug. 2014 | The following paper has been published. Yuta Kizaki, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Effect of radical quenching on CH4/air flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.35, Issue 3:3389-3396 (2015).doi: 10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.030, Link |
| July 2014 | The following paper has been published. Shogo Kikui, Taiki Kamada, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Characteristics of n-butane weak flames at elevated pressures in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.35, Issue 3:3405 –3412 (2015).doi: 10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.029, Link |
| June 2014 | The following paper has been published. Hisashi Nakamura, Satoshi Suzuki, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Sooting limits and PAH formation of n-hexadecane and 2,2,4,4,6,8,8-heptamethylnonane in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.35, Issue 3:3397-3404 (2015).doi:10.1016/j.proci.2014.05.148, Link |
| Nov. 2013 | The following paper has been published. Xing Li, Li Jia, Takakazu Onishi, Philipp Grajetzki, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Study on stretch extinction limits of CH4/CO2 versus high temperature O2/CO2 counterflow non-premixed flames", Combustion and Flame, Vol.161, Issue 6：1526-1536 (2014).doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.12.004, Link |
| Oct. 2013 | The following paper has been published. Hisashi Nakamura, Ryu Tanimoto, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Soot formation characteristics and PAH formation process in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.161, Issue 2：582–591 (2014).doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.09.004, Link |
| Sep. 2013 | We have moved. Prof's office: Room 509, IFS Bld. #2Students room: Room 201 and 202, IFS Bld. Joint Laboratory |
| Aug. 2013 | The following paper has been published. Taiki Kamada, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Study on combustion and ignition characteristics of natural gas components in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.161, Issue 1：37–48 (2014).doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.08.013, Link |
| April 2013 | Profs. Maruta and Nakamura and Mr. Tezuka receive Ichimura Academic Award for the development of "Flame chromatography" by micro flow reactor with prescribed temperature profile. Link(In Japanese) |
| March 2013 | The following paper has been published. Koichi Takase, Xing Li, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Masato Katsuta, Masao Kikuchi, Kaoru Maruta, "Extinction characteristics of CH4/O2/Xe radiative counterflow planar premixed flames and their transition to ball-like flames", Combustion and Flame, Vol.160, Issue 7：1235–1241 (2013).doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.02.006, Link |
| June 2012 | The following paper have been published. Satoshi Suzuki, Mikito Hori, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa and Kaoru Maruta, " Study on cetane number dependence of diesel surrogates/air weak flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.34, Issue 2:3411–3417 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.162, Link Hisashi Nakamura, Akira Yamamoto, Mikito Hori, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, " Study on pressure dependences of ethanol oxidation by separated weak flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.34, Issue 2:3435–3443 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.101, Link Mikito Hori, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Characteristics of n-heptane and toluene weak flames in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.34, Issue 2:3419–3426 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.099, Link Roman Fursenko, Sergey Minaev, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Koichi Takase, Xing Li, Masato Katsuta, Masao Kikuchi, Kaoru Maruta, " Cellular and sporadic flame regimes of low-Lewis-number stretched remixed flames", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.34, Issue 1:981–988 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2012.08.014, Link |
| Nov. 2011 | The following paper have been published. Hisashi Nakamura, Aiwu Fan, Sergey Minaev, Evgeniy Sereshchenko, Roman Fursenko, Yosuke Tsuboi, Kaoru Maruta, "Bifurcations and negative propagation speeds of methane/air premixed flames with repetitive extinction and ignition in a heated microchannel", Combustion and Flame, Vol.159, Issue 4：1631–1643 (2012). doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2011.11.004, Link |
| Oct. 2011 | The following paper have been published. Dae Keun Lee and Kaoru Maruta, "Heat recirculation effects on flame propagation and flame structure in a mesoscale tube", Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol.16, Issue 3:507-536 (2012). doi:10.1080/13647830.2011.638400, Link |
| Sep. 2011 | The following paper have been published. Mikito Hori, Akira Yamamoto, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa and Kaoru Maruta, "Study on octane number dependence of PRF/air weak flames at 1-5 atm in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.159, Issue 3：959–967 (2012). doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2011.09.020, Link |
| April 2011 | The following paper have been published. Yiguang Ju, Kaoru Maruta, "Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research", Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Vol.37, Issue 6:669-715 (2011). doi:10.1016/j.pecs.2011.03.001, Link |
| Sep. 2010 | The following paper have been published. Kaoru Maruta, "Micro and mesoscale combustion", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.33, Issue 1:125-150 (2011). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.09.005, Link |
| July 2010 | The following paper have been published. Aiwu Fan, Kaoru Maruta, Hisashi Nakamura, Sudarshan Kumar and Wei Liu, "Experimental investigation on flame pattern formations of DME–air mixtures in a radial microchannel", Combustion and Flame, Vol.157, Issue 9：1637–1642 (2010).doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.05.014, Link |
| June 2010 | The following paper have been published. R. Fursenko, S. Minaev, K. Maruta, H. Nakamura, H. Yang, "Characteristic regimes of premixed gas combustion in high-porosity micro-fibrous porous media", Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol.14, Issue 4:571- 581 (2010). doi:10.1080/13647830.2010.502249, Link |
| May 2010 | The following paper have been published. Akira Yamamoto, Hiroshi Oshibe, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa, Kaoru Maruta, "Stabilized three-stage oxidation of gaseous n-heptane/air mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.33, Issue 2:3259-3266 (2011). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2010.05.004, Link |
| March 2010 | The following paper have been published. Hiroshi Oshibe, Hisashi Nakamura, Takuya Tezuka, Susumu Hasegawa and Kaoru Maruta, "Stabilized three-stage oxidation of DME/air mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile", Combustion and Flame, Vol.157, Issue 8：1572–1580 (2010). doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.03.004, Link |
| Jan. 2010 | Our laboratory was introduced in an internet TV program in English "COLUMBUS CHANNEL" by Sendai CAT-V. Link to the web is here. |
| Dec. 2, 2009 | Lab members attended 47th Japanese(domestic) combustion symposium in Sapporo. Photos are here. |
| Aug. 31 2009 | Our research on micro flowreactor was introduced in a TV program,
"A new century for Tohoku University" by Higashi Nippon Broadcasting (KHB). Details of the micro flowreactor is here.
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| May 2009 | The following papers have been published. Aiwu Fan, Sergey S. Minaev, Evgeniy V. Sereshchenko, Yosuke Tsuboi, Hiroshi Oshibe,Hisashi Nakamura and Kaoru Maruta,
"Dynamic behavior of splitting flames in a heated channel",
Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves, Vol. 45, No. 3：245–250 (2009). doi:10.1007/s10573-009-0032-6, Link |
| May 24, 2009 | Lab members attended 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC) in Taipei. Photos are here. |
| April 2009 | The following paper has been published. HaoLin Yang, Sergey Minaev, Evgeniy Geynce, Hisashi Nakamura, Kaoru Maruta,"Filtration Combustion of Methane in High-Porosity Micro-Fibrous Media", Combustion Science and Technology, Vol.181, Issue 4: 654- 669 (2009). doi:10.1080/00102200802646748, Link |
| March 2009 | The following paper has been published. Sergey S. Minaev, Evgeniy V. Sereshchenko, Roman V. Fursenko, Aiwu Fan, and Kaoru Maruta, " Splitting Flames in a Narrow Channel with a Temperature Gradient in the Walls", Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves, Vol. 45, No. 2：119–125 (2009). doi:10.1007/s10573-009-0016-6, Link |
| Jan. 1, 2009 | The following papers have been published. Yosuke Tsuboi, Takeshi Yokomori and Kaoru Maruta, "Lower limit of weak flame in a heated channel", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 32, Issue 2: 3075-3081 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.151, Link Aiwu Fan, Sergey Minaev, Evgeniy Sereshchenko, Roman Fursenko, Sudarshan Kumar, Wei Liu, Kaoru Maruta, "Experimental and numerical investigations of flame pattern formations in a radial microchannel", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 32, Issue 2: 3059-3066 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.092, Link Hisashi Nakamura, Aiwu Fan, Hideaki Minamizono, Kaoru Maruta, Hideaki Kobayashi, Takashi Niioka, "Bifurcations of stretched premixed flame stabilized by a hot wall", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 32, Issue 1: 1367-1374 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.proci.2008.05.045, Link |
| Oct., 2008 | The following paper has been published. Yosuke Tsuboi, Takeshi Yokomori, Kaoru Maruta, "Extinction characteristics of premixed flame in heated microchannel at reduced pressures", Combustion Science and Technology, Vol.180, Issue 10 & 11: 2029 - 2045 ( 2008 ). doi:10.1080/00102200802269723, Link |
| Aug. 3, 2008 | We made 3 oral presentations and 2 poster presentations in 32nd International Symposium on Combustion at Montreal, Canada. Click here to see pictures and here to see presentation materials. |
| May, 2008 | The following paper has been published. A.W. Fan, S. Minaev, S. Kumar, W. Liu and K. Maruta, "Regime diagrams and characteristics of flame patterns in radial microchannels with temperature gradients", Combustion and Flame, Vol. 153, Issue 3: 479-489 (2008). doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2007.10.015, Link |
| Apr. 9, 2008 | Our paper was selected for Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 2007 highlights. Clike here. |
| Feb., 2008 | The following paper has been published. Sudarshan Kumar, Kaoru Maruta, S. Minaev, and R. Fursenko, "Appearance of target pattern and spiral flames in radial microchannels with CH4-air mixtures", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 20: 024101 (2008). doi:10.1063/1.2836670, Link |