Education

Combustion Research Group (CRG) will be established under the Centre for Energy and
Industrial Environment Studies (CEIES), Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering (FKMP). The objective of this group is to promote green technology of
combustion strategies for external combustion system in order to create a sustainable energy
and environment system and to fulfil the future emission regulations and fuel consumption.
CRG is going to be involved in supporting research and academic activities to the bio fuel, bio
gas, fuel properties technology, heat transfer problem and cooling system in combustion system
and micro gas turbine. The current research of this group involves the latest combustion
concept based on the application of modern technologies especially in controlling the mixture
formation and ignition process that responsible to the oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and Particulate
Matter (PM) reduction. This group synthesis the detail spray evaporation, spray interference
and mixture formation process clearly with schlieren optical visualization method and digital
video camera. Further, heat transfer behaviour, thermophoresis, burning process and flame
spread characteristics were investigated by direct photography method using high speed colour
digital video camera. Moreover, the mechanism and behaviour of flame pattern will be
analysed by newly developed image processing technique It is expected that this work will
provide the knowledge of the exploration on the new generation renewable energy that is able
to provide the cost competitiveness, discovery on the energy preservation and reducing
emission with the green technology concept. The investigation, observation and the argument
in this project represents the marketing strategies of the renewable energy for internal
combustion engine, burner system and biogas turbine. Thus, new green technology of
combustion strategies can achieve the high combustion efficiency in order to fulfil the future
emissions regulations. CRG will create effective collaboration between researchers and
stakeholder industry of frontier and green technology.

The group is committed to carry out intensive research in the following areas:

 Alternative and renewable fuel for external combustion including burner and gas
turbines.
 Fuel properties, combustion process, combustion characteristics and emission in
combustion, gas turbines and related with external combustion.
 Optical observation of mixture formation, ignition process and flame development.
 Image processing technique.
  Cooling technique in combustor system in gas turbine and thermophoresis process.

CRG is well equipped to conduct research and provide consultation in:

 Development of burner equipment and injector for waste oil fuel

 Bio additive, biofuel and bio lubrication
 Bio gas for macro gas turbine