Joint NSF-NSFC Workshop on Combustion Related to Sustainable Energy

A workshop on Combustion Related to Sustainable Energy was held in Hangzhou, China on March 10-12, 2014. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). This workshop was a forum where lead researchers from the U.S. and China gathered to address critical needs in the general areas of combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, and related thermal processes. They believed that even with increased utilization of other renewable resources, such as wind and solar, and continued or increased reliance upon hydroelectric and nuclear power for a portion of our energy portfolio, combustion, of either fossil or renewable fuels will continue to play a key role in the global energy picture for many decades to come. Promising areas where U.S.-China collaborative research would be particularly beneficial include global climate change considerations, sustainable/renewable fuel supply, improved efficiency of combustion systems, environmental impacts, and enabling technologies and novel combustion concepts.