Associate Professor Peter James Mullinger

Visiting Research Fellow

BSc. (Eng.) Leicester, PhD (Sheffield)

Location: Room A211 Engineering Annex
Email: pmulling@chemeng.adelaide.edu.au
Phone: + 61 8 8303 5085
FAX: + 61 8 8303 4373

Interests

• All aspects of industrial combustion systems, including process efficiency optimisation; combustion and heat transfer modelling; safety issues; atomisation; fuels handling (all fuels) and emission reduction. Specialist applications have included pressurised combustion systems; fuel cells; vortex combustion; alternative fuels and explosion investigations.

Recent Publications

• Ashman Peter J., Peter J. Mullinger, "Research Issues in combustion and gasification of lignite" in Fuel, 84 (2005) 1195-1205.
• Ballantyne Timothy R., Peter Ashman, Peter Mullinger, "A new method for determining the conversion of low-ash coals using synthetic ash as a tracer", Fuel, 84 (2005) 1980-1085
• Parham, J.J., Nathan, G.J., Hill, S.J., Mullinger, P.J., "A modified Thring-Newby scaling criterion for confined, rapidly spreading and unsteady jets", Combust. Sci. and Tech. 177 1421-1447, 2005
• Ashman, P.J., Kosminski, A., Button, S.J. and Mullinger, P.J. "Gasification of Victorian lignite in a laboratory scale fluidised bed gasifier", in Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion - ASPACC '05. (Adelaide, Australia). July, 2005. pp. 113-116.
• Ballantyne, T.R., Ashman, P.J. and Mullinger, P.J. "The effect of dewatering on the combustion behaviour of Loy Yang coal is a drop tube furnace", in Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion - ASPACC '05. (Adelaide, Australia). July, 2005. pp. 129-132.