Professor
Phone: (+86)27-87542417
Email: clou@hust.edu.cn
Academic areas: Thermal Engineering, Power Engineering
Research interests: high-temperature field measurement, combustion diagnosis, combustion thermodynamics, low-carbon combustion
Academic Degrees
PhD, 2007, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;
Master, 2002, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;
Bachelor, 1999, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Professional Experience
Professor (2016-present); School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology;
Selected Publications
[1] Chun Lou*, Yang Pu, Yonggang Zhao, Yang Bai, Bin Yao, Dunxi Yu. An in-situ method for time-resolved sodium release behaviour during coal combustion and its application in industrial coal-fired boilers, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 38 (2021) 4199–4206.
[2] Chun Lou*, Zhicong Li, Yindi Zhang, Benjamin M. Kumfer. Soot formation characteristics in laminar coflow flames with application to oxy-combustion, Combustion and flame, 227 (2021) 371-383.
[3] Zhongnong Zhang, Chun Lou*, Yan Long, Benjamin M. Kumfer. Thermodynamics second-law analysis of hydrocarbon diffusion flames: Effects of soot and temperature, Combustion and Flame, 234 (2021) 111618.
[4] Zhicong Li, Ludong Zhang, Chun Lou*. In-Situ Measurement of Soot Volume Fraction and Temperature in Axisymmetric Soot-Laden Flames Using TR-GSVD Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 70 (2021) 5001212.
[5] X. He, C. Lou*, Y. Qiao, M. Lim. In-situ measurement of temperature and alkali metal concentration in municipal solid waste incinerators using flame emission spectroscopy. Waste Management, 2020, 102: 486–491.
[6] Z. He, C. Lou*, J. Fu, M. Lim. Experimental investigation on temporal release of potassium from biomass pellet combustion by flame emission spectroscopy. Fuel, 2019, 253: 1378–1384.
[7] C. Lou*, Z. Zhang. Experimental and numerical analysis of radiative entropy generation in industrial and boiler furnaces. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 2019, 232: 27–34.
[8] C. Lou, X. Chen, W. Yan, Y. Tian, B. M. Kumfer. Effect of stoichiometric mixture fraction on soot fraction and emission spectra with application to oxy-combustion. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019, 37: 4571–4578.
Awards:
2007 Science and Technology Innovation in Hubei Province (First Prize): Novel Technology of real-time monitoring three-dimensional temperature distribution in furnaces and optimal controlling load of power generation units
Courses Taught
Basic combustion
Fundamental of thermal engineering
Visualization and processing of thermal engineering signals
Projects
1. Science and Technology Partnership Program, Ministry of Science and Technology of China: KY201401003, Joint Research Center for Three-dimensional Monitoring and Control of Biomass Combustion, 2014/11-2017/10
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China：51676078, Research of sooting limit in hydrocarbon inverse diffusion flames based on carbon-to-oxygen atom ratio, 2017/01—2020/12
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China：51176059, Investigation of soot formation in laminar hydrocarbon diffusion flames at O2/CO2 atmosphere, 2012/01—2015/12
4. National Natural Science Foundation of China：50806026, Simultaneous inversion of distributions of temperature and soot volume fraction in hydrocarbon diffusion flames, 2009/01—2011/12
