There are three main groups of people involved in LITECS: The Academic Partners who also make up the Core Management Group (CMG); the industry partners who make up the Industry Advisory Group (IAG) and The International Steering Board (ISB). The members of each plus a few other individuals who will participate are listed below with some biographical information.
Introductions
Academic Partners / Core Management Group (CMG)
Professor Walter Johnstone is the overall Programme leader. He is Professor of Photonic Systems in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) at Strathclyde University, leading the laser spectroscopy research for gas measurement in extreme environments.
Prof. Walter Johnstone is the Research Professor of Photonic Systems in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering with responsibility only for research leadership and delivery in the field of laser spectroscopy for gas measurements in extreme environments. Prior to his current position, he held senior management posts as Deputy Head then Head of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (2006-11) followed by appointment to the post of Vice Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering (2011-16). He is also a founding director of the Spin-out Company, OptoSci Ltd (operating since 1994).
Recent research in laser spectroscopy applications focusses on accurate measurement of gas concentration, pressure and temperature in extreme environments, such as in the combustion zones and exhaust plumes of aero (gas turbine) engines at high temperature. As well as carrying out basic research, his group, working in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, Siemens and MSquared Lasers etc. is involved in the engineering of such systems for in situ industrial deployment.
Dr Michael Lengden (Strathclyde, EEE) will lead the technical programme in tuneable diode laser spectroscopy (TDLS) for gas measurement at Strathclyde.
Dr Ian Burns (Strathclyde, Chemical and Process Engineering department) will lead the technical programme on the calibration of laser-induced incandescence (LII) soot measurements at Strathclyde.
Professor Hugh McCann is Professor of Tomographic Imaging in the School of Engineering (SoE), at Edinburgh University. He will lead the development of the species imaging system for the exhaust zone and contribute to the system development for the combustion zone.
Dr Nick Polydorides is Head of the Agile Tomography research group in SoE at Edinburgh. He holds a prestigious Alan Turing Fellowship and will lead the development of the mathematical algorithms for Image Reconstruction from multi-beam path TDLS measurements.
Dr Chang Liu (Edinburgh, SoE) will lead the day to day research and development of species imaging systems.
Professor Krikor Ozanyan is Professor of Photonic Sensor Systems in EEE at Manchester University. He will lead the development of mathematical algorithms for recovering LII soot images and species imaging in the combustion zones of turbine engines.
Dr Paul Wright (Manchester, EEE) will lead the development of the hardware systems for soot LII and the opto-mechanical systems for species imaging in the in the combustion zone with contributions to the systems for the exhaust zone.
Professor Johan Nilsson is Head of the High Power Optical Fibre Lasers Group at Southampton University. He will lead the development of the fibre-optic amplifiers required to realise the multi-beam imaging systems.
Professor Dan Hewak leads the Novel Glass and Optical Fibres research at Southampton and will lead the development of the fibre for the amplifiers and the MIR fibre for light delivery in the multi-beam systems.
Professor Jayanta Sahu is head to the Optical Fibres Fabrication Facility at Southampton and will be responsible for specialist fibre development and delivery as required by LITECS.
Professor Jon Carrotte is the Rolls-Royce Professor of Aero-thermal processes and combustion at Loughborough University and is the Director of the Rolls-Royce UTC and the NCATT. He will facilitate the integration of the new instrumentation systems with turbine engine combustors and lead the measurement programmes to obtain data sets that will inform understanding of combustion processes.
Dr Andrew Garmory (Loughborough) will contribute to definition of the measurement programmes required to inform understanding of combustion processes and will lead on the analysis of the resulting data sets.
Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian heads Energy Research at the University of Sheffield and has recently taken over leadership of the Translational Energy Research Centre (T.E.R.C). He will facilitate the integration of the new instrumentation systems with turbine engines and combustors and lead the measurement programmes to obtain data sets that will inform understanding of combustion processes and the evaluation of new fuels.
Professor Yang Zhang is Professor of Combustion Engineering at Sheffield and will contribute generally guidance and advice on instrumentation for combustion studies.
Dr Simon Blakey (Birmingham University) is a consultant to Sheffield University LCCC on alternative gas turbine fuels. He will advise on and lead aspects of the LITECS programme on alternative fuels and their evaluation.
Industry Partners (IAG Members)
Dr Mark Johnson is the Technical Expert at Rolls-Royce Plc for Emissions Measurement.
Dr Steve Harding is the technical expert at Rolls Royce Plc for Combustion and Turbines.
Dr Eoghan Buchanan key expert in Combustion at Siemens Industrial Turbo-machinery Ltd.
Dr Iain Mauchline Engineering Director at OptoSci Ltd; technical specialisms: Photonics and Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy.
Dr Douglas Walsh Managing Director at OptoSci Ltd.
Dr James Bain is Innovation Programme Manager at M Squared Lasers
Dr Victoria Whittle is the Principal Chemist at Tracerco Ltd.
International Steering Board (ISB)
Simon Weeks, Chief Technology Officer at Aerospace Technology Institute; Chair of the LITECS International Steering Board
Dr Mark Johnson is the Technical Expert at Rolls-Royce Plc for Emissions Measurement.
Dr Steve Harding is the technical expert at Rolls-Royce Plc for Combustion and Turbines.
Dr Eoghan Buchanan key expert in Combustion at Siemens Industrial Turbo-machinery Ltd.
Dr Joanna Bauldreay (Former Shell aviation fuels specialist) is a technical consultant on aviation fuels.
Dr Klaus Peter Geigle, Institute of Combustion Technology (DLR Germany); laser based combustion measurements expert with specific interests in soot measurement.
Dr Jari Hyvonen (Wartsilla, Finland) Technical Manager, Marine Engines.
Professor Alex Taylor (Imperial College) has expertise in the study of gas turbine engine combustion.
Professor Jim McGuirk (Loughborough) Emeritus Professor, gas turbine engine research.
Professor Nondas Mastorakos (Cambridge) has expertise in modelling combustion processes in gas turbine engines.
EPSRC Representative
Zoe Brown, Portfolio manager for Combustion Engineering
Other Participants
Dr John Black (former Rolls-Royce technical Expert in Photonics for gas turbine measurements) is now a visiting researcher at Strathclyde University and advises on combustion measurement systems.
Philip Ronson is the LITECS Programme Administrator.
EPSRC Programme: Laser Imaging of Turbine Engine Combustion Species
Contact: Professor Walter Johnstone
LITECS is funded by
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