Friday, 19 June 2015

Best Poster Award to reseach on the spread of peat fires

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Congratulations to my PhD students from Imperial Hazelab Xinyan Huang and Francesco Restuccia for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2nd E...
Saturday, 30 May 2015

Research grant on travelling fires with Michigan

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Egle Rackauskaite, PhD student at the Imperial Hazelab. I am delighted to announce that we have won a research grant from SFPE that wil...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Hazelab group photo

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From left to right, in this group photo we have: Xinyan Huang (3rd year PhD student), Francesco Restuccia (1st year PhD student), Egle Rac...
Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Welcome Virginia to Imperial Hazelab

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Dr Virginia Alonso has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London as postdoc in my research group, Imperial...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

O-Revealer: Landmine clearance by the controlled use of fire

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For the past few years, I have been developing a new method to clear landmine. Let me tell you a bit of the story. More than 30 years afte...
Sunday, 1 March 2015

Can poisonous Carbon Monoxide diffuse through building walls?

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Fire Protection Research Foundation report:   "Carbon Monoxide Diffusion through Porous Walls: A Critical Review of Literature and Inci...
Monday, 16 February 2015

Xinyan Huang wins Qatar Petroleum Medal for research on Clean Fossil Fuels

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I am delighted t announce that my PhD student Xinyan Huang, working on peat fires, has been awarded the Qatar Petroleum Medal for PhD Resea...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Wildfires and the burnig of Pine needles

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In our recent paper published in Fire and Materials , we use laboratory experiments to investigate the differences in fire dynamics betwee...
Thursday, 22 January 2015

Doubt cast on global firestorm generated by dino-killing asteroid

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Pioneering new research published in the Journal of the Geological Society .has debunked the theory that the asteroid that is thought to ha...
Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Research Associate position on fire protection engineering in Imperial College London

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Research Associate in the Thermofluids Division at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. Maximum salar...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Peat fires - a legacy of carbon up in smoke

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Press Release: It reads like a movie script – ash falling from the sky, thick smoke shutting down airports and businesses, road closures t...
Friday, 26 December 2014

Peat fires and carbon loss

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Together with co-authors in Canada, US, UK and Netherlands, we have just published a progress article in Nature Geoscience   (vol 8, 2014) ...
Monday, 22 December 2014

Fin's and Candle's Creative Contests

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Engineering can be the most creative profession, but we engineers are in general not the best communicators nor the best at appreciating art...
Saturday, 27 September 2014

Forecasting the movement of a wildfire

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I have a dream too. That one day we could predict the movement of a fire and be able to inform the Fire Service ahead of time by using just ...
Sunday, 3 August 2014

Welcome Nils to Imperial Haze Lab

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July was the first month of Nils Roenner at Imperial College London as a new PhD student in m group. He joins the Imperial Haze Lab in the ...
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Monday, 16 June 2014

Nature’s sport and the Burning Mountain

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Figure 1. Newspaper excerpt from 1828 announcing an active volcano in Australia. Thanks to his knowledge in geology and an investigation...