Dr Iain Burns

Publications

Measurement of acetylene concentration in laminar flat flames by diode laser cavity ring-down spectroscopy

Otti P, Humphries GS, Hu Y, Lengden M, Burns IS

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics Vol 128 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07883-y

In-situ photoacoustic measurement of soot profiles in laminar flames using a high repetition-rate pulsed fibre laser

Humphries Gordon S, Roy Robert, Black John D, Lengden Michael, Burns Iain S

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics Vol 125 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-019-7169-0

Alternative soot detection strategies for application in aero-engine test-beds : assessment of the performance and uncertainties of time-integrated LII

Roy R, Blount C, Ramesh G, Ozanyan K, Wright P, Archilla V, Burns IS

9th European Combustion Meeting, pp. 1-5 (2019)

CIDAR : combustion species imaging diagnostics for aero-engine research

Archilla V, Aragón G, Wright P, Ozanyan K, Black J, Polydorides N, McCann H, Lengden M, Burns I, Johnstone W, Polo V, Beltran M, Mauchline I, Walsh D, Johnson M

Aerosol Technology (2018)

CIDAR project - development of a non-intrusive capability for aircraft engine measurements

Archilla V, Aragón G, Wright P, Ozanyan K, Black J, Lengden M, Burns I, Johnstone W, Polo V, Beltran M, Johnson M

Aerosol Technology (2018)

Some aspects of the mechanism of formation of smoke from the combustion of wood

Atiku Farooq, Lea-Langton Amanda, Bartle Keith, Jones Jenny, Williams Alan, Burns Iain, Humphries Gordon Samuel

Energy and Fuels Vol 31, pp. 1935-1944 (2017)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02639

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Teaching

I currently teach mass transfer, vapour-liquid separations and adsorption processes to Year 3 and process measurements to final year MEng students.

I supervise research and industrial projects for full-time and distance-learning MEng and MSc students, chemical engineering design projects and undergraduate summer research projects.

I have previously lectured on process design, engineering maths, thermodynamics and chemical reactor engineering so I have broad experience of teaching the core components of the Chemical Engineering undergraduate curriculum.

Research Interests

• Laser induced fluorescence
• Cavity ring-down spectroscopy
• Laser induced incandescence
• Light scattering
• Combustion
• Laminar flames
• Temperature measurement
• Trace gas detection
• Soot and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
• Direct flame fuel cells
• Crystallisation

Professional Activities

Strathclyde Adsorption Summer School 2022

Keynote/plenary speaker

15/6/2022

Strathclyde Adsorption Summer School 2019

Keynote/plenary speaker

18/6/2019

Strathclyde Adsorption Summer School 2018

Keynote/plenary speaker

12/6/2018

Strathclyde Adsorption Summer School 2017

Keynote/plenary speaker

19/6/2017

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Projects

A Spectroscopy Suite for Direct Low Waste Measurement for All States of Matter

Campbell, Andrew John (Principal Investigator) Burns, Iain (Co-investigator) Lengden, Michael (Co-investigator) Murray, Paul (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024

Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Seecharam, Anshul Nilesh

Burns, Iain (Principal Investigator) Brightman, Edward (Co-investigator) Seecharam, Anshul Nilesh (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2025

Laser Imaging of Turbine Engine Combusion Species (LITECS) (Programme Grant)

Lengden, Michael (Principal Investigator) Burns, Iain (Co-investigator) Johnstone, Walter (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2025

AFRC_CATP_1216_RTI Application of TDLAS for gas monitoring

Andreu, Aurik (Principal Investigator) Wilson, David (Academic) Burns, Iain (Principal Investigator)

31-Jan-2018 - 24-Jan-2019

CIDAR for CleanSky 2 (Combustion species Imaging Diagnostics for Aero-engine Research)

Lengden, Michael (Principal Investigator) Burns, Iain (Co-investigator) Johnstone, Walter (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2021

2016 EPSRC Doctoral Prize - Intra-Cavity Photo-acoustic Gas Sensing

Humphries, Gordon Samuel (Principal Investigator) Lengden, Michael (Academic) Burns, Iain (Academic)

The monitoring of trace gases at low concentration is of vital importance across a range of areas (pollutant emission measurement, process control, medical diagnostics). NOx pollution has attracted significant attention, due to the increase in diesel and nitrogen-based bio-fuels usage and the misrepresentation of pollutant levels in the automotive industry. This project will develop a highly sensitive optical sensor targeting nitric oxide (NO), which is an atmospheric pollutant and a pre-cursor to NO2, contributing to significant numbers of UK deaths per annum. Current measurement techniques cannot accurately measure NO and NO2 concentration in the atmosphere at the levels considered dangerous. As its harmful effects become increasingly apparent there is a pressing need for a step change in sensor technology, requiring two orders of magnitude improvement in sensitivity to levels lower than 500 parts per trillion (ppt) and providing improved data for analysis of pollutant species in environmental modelling.
To meet this need we will combine research from Strathclyde and Oxford University to develop a novel gas sensor, integrating the world-leading expertise from both institutions; Strathclyde- considerable expertise in cavity-based optical absorption and photoacoustic techniques for gas detection; Oxford – expertise in an advanced optical technique (optical-feedback-cavity- enhanced absorption spectroscopy - OF-CEAS). The integration of these two techniques has the potential to provide a sensitivity increase of two orders of magnitude, which translates to minimum detection sensitivities of NO and NO2 of 50ppt and 5ppt respectively, well within the range required for practical applications.

01-Jan-2017 - 28-Jan-2018

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