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Bassam Dally

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Physical Science and Engineering Division 
Center membership :
Clean Combustion

bassam.dally@kaust.edu.sa
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technology Group


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, 1998
  • B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 1988

Research Interests

​Prof Dally's research interests include combustion science, aerodynamics, heat transfer, applied optics, computational fluid dynamics, and renewable energy including wind, solar and tidal wave. His interest spans fundamental to translational research, including turbulence chemistry interaction, soot evolution in flames, structure and stability of MILD combustion, hydrogen and ammonia energy victors, energy storage, hybrid energy systems and fuel adaptation to industrial processes. His current research is focused on developing cost-effective and innovative technologies that deliver carbon mitigation under the circular carbon economy approach. In particular, he is working on technology solutions to decarbonize heavy industries through flexible integration of renewable sources such electrification, hydrogen and ammonia combustion and concentrated solar thermal.

Selected Publications

  • Evans, M.J, Proud, D.B., Medwell, P.R., Pitsch, H., Dally, B.B. Highly radiating hydrogen flames: Effect of toluene concentration and phase, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020
  • Sun, Z., Dally, B., Alwahabi, Z., & Nathan, G. (2020). The effect of oxygen concentration in the co-flow of laminar ethylene diffusion flames. Combustion and Flame, 211, 96-111.
  • Sun, Z., Alwahabi, Z., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2019). Simultaneously calibrated two-line atomic fluorescence for high-precision temperature imaging in sooting flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37(2), 1417-1425.
  • Chinnici, A., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). An experimental study of the stability and performance characteristics of a Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor operated in the MILD combustion regime. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37(4), 5687-5695.
  • Mahmoud, S., Lau, T., Nathan, G., Medwell, P., Alwahabi, Z., & Dally, B. (2019). A new correlation between soot sheet width and soot volume fraction in turbulent non-premixed jet flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37(1), 927-934.