Thomas H. FLETCHER
Professor
Director, Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from BYU in 1983. He worked for seven years at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. He has been on the faculty at BYU since 1991. Dr. Fletcher is the Director of the Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center (ACERC) at BYU and the University of Utah, which includes 13 faculty and performs over $7 million in research per year. His research interests include lean premixed combustion, laser diagnostics, coal pyrolysis and combustion, NOx formation from low-grade fuels, and soot formation from aromatic compounds. He has coauthored one book, one book chapter, and has 47 peer-reviewed publications.
Selected publications:
Hong,J., W. C. Hecker, and T. H. Fletcher, "Improving the Accuracy of Predicting Effectiveness Factors for m-th Order and Langmuir Rate Equations in Spherical Coordinates," Energy & Fuels, 14, 663-670 (2000).
Perry,S., T. H. Fletcher, R. J. Pugmire, M. S. Solum, “A Global Free-Radical Mechanism for Light Gas Nitrogen Release from Coal during Devolatilization,” Energy & Fuels, 14, 1094-1102 (2000).
Mallampalli, H., T. H. Fletcher, and J. Y. Chen, "Evaluation of CH4/NOx Reduced Mechanisms Used for Modeling Lean Premixed Turbulent Combustion of Natural Gas," Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 120, 703-712 (1998).
Smith, L. K., L. D. Smoot, T. H. Fletcher, and R. J. Pugmire, "Chapter 3. Coal Characteristics, Structure, and Reaction Rates," in Fundamentals of Coal Combustion for Clean and Efficient Use, edited by L. D. Smoot, Elsevier, New York(1993).
Smith,L. K., L. D. Smoot, T. H. Fletcher, and R. J. Pugmire, The Structure and Reaction Processes of Coal, Plenum Press, New York (1994)