Gas Turbine Technology

Call for Papers

As the world's population increases, there will be a greater demand for energy. Furthermore, as traditional fossil fuels come under increasing pressure both in terms of supply and emissions, there is a need to find alternative sources and move away from large energy nodes to more responsive decentralised systems in particular for the power sector. Gas turbine technology has allowed the rapid development of smaller systems. Thus, fuel efficiency, emission reduction, the use of novel fuels, and improved reliability are of great importance when operating this technology. The driver is now reduced carbon dioxide and low-carbon power generation using hydrogen-rich synthetic fuels. As the working envelope is extended, operational problems related to acoustic instabilities and poor performance have been reported.

We invite investigators to contribute to original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand, improve, and develop gas turbine technology for the twenty first century. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Efficiency improvements
• Novel fuels
• Combustion characteristics
• Emissions and particulates
• Thermal acoustic instabilities
• Carbon capture and storage
• Novel cycles
• Modelling
• Economics
• Emerging issues

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ame/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Tony Griffiths, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

Guest Editors

• Alexander Konnov, Division of Combustion Physics, Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden
• Marco Mehl, Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551-0808, USA
• Peter Jansohn, Combustion Research Laboratory, Department of General Energy, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland