The COMBURA symposium is the major annual event for exchange of information on combustion research and its practical applications, in the Netherlands. It is an initiative of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vlamonderzoek NVV (Netherlands Association for Flame Research).

Participants from universities, research institutes, and industrial companies in the Netherlands and surrounding countries are invited. At the symposium, the latest developments and innovations in advanced combustion research will be presented, with the emphasis on the potential for application in industry. In addition, the symposium offers unique chances to expand and maintain your professional network.

COMBURA 2019 will take place on 9^th October and 10^th October 2019. The venue for this event will be the conference hotel Kontakt der Kontinenten in Soesterberg, which is located between the cities of Utrecht and Amersfoort.

COMBURA Schedule

The first day of the symposium will start in the late afternoon of Wednesday 9^th October with the NVV Members Meeting. On the following day, the symposium will start with three keynote lectures and a panel discussion which are interlinked by the subject of “sustainable fuels for energy and transportation”. The topics of the keynote lectures will be biomass for energy, methanol for IC-engines and combustion technology developments in the aerospace sector.

After the panel discussion, there will be a lunch with the opportunity to see the posters exhibition. In the afternoon the technical talks of 20 minutes each will be given in parallel sessions by experts in the field of combustion research from universities, research institutes and companies.

The three keynote lectures will be:

• ‘Biomass for energy: technological options and challenges in meeting the Paris agreement goals’ ir. Jaap Kiel
• ‘Methanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines’ ir. Sebastian Verhelst
• ‘Combustion technology development within the civil aerospace sector’ ir. Ruud Eggels

Following lunch 20 minutes talks will be given in parallel sessions by experts in the field of combustion research from universities, research institutes and companies.

Call for papers

This call is an invitation for those who want to present their work on combustion technology in these sessions. All topics related to combustion are welcome, for example:

• Modelling
• Experimental work
• Industrial and domestic applications
• Power to gas/power to fuel
• Fuel utilization
• Bio-fuels
• Flue gas cleaning
• Carbon capture
• Boilers
• Heaters
• Engines
• Gas turbines

You are invited to submit the title of your 20 minutes talk before 21^st August 2019 to the COMBURA Conference Office (combura@vlamvereniging.nl). Those who are selected for an oral presentation will be notified as soon as possible after this date. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 18^th September 2019.

After acceptance you will be asked to prepare an abstract of your presentation in Word or PDF (maximum 2 pages) for publication in the Book of Abstracts.

Call for Posters

Participants from industry, research institutes, universities and others are invited to submit posters with recent research results. If you intend to present a poster, please send the title of your poster to the COMBURA Conference Office (combura@vlamvereniging.nl). After acceptance you will be asked to prepare an abstract of the presented research in Word or PDF (maximum of 2 pages) for publication in the Book of Abstracts. Deadline for submitting posters is 18^th September 2019.

Registration

Registration can only be done via the following website: www.combura.nl. If you wish to stay overnight please register as soon as possible to make sure that your hotel room is available. Registration fee includes lunch, coffee/tea, drinks and the digital Book of Abstracts.

Costs are:

• € 50- Bachelor/Master/PhD students
• € 60- NVV members
• € 150- others
• € 40- conference dinner
• € 100- Overnight stay (single room)

For more information please visit the COMBURA 2019 website.