Dr Alfonso Chinnici
Senior Researcher and Project Manager
School of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2018 Research Manager & Head Secretariat Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide, 2017 - 2017 Visiting Researcher ETH Zurich 2016 Senior Researcher Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide 2014 - 2016 Research Associate Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide 2011 - 2014 Research Fellow Combustion Institute Research, IRC CNR -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2014 University Federico II of Naples Italy PhD Chemical Engineering 2010 University Federico II of Naples Italy Ms Chemical Engineering 2007 University Federico II of Naples Italy BE Chemical Engineering -
Certifications
Date Title Institution name Country — Chartered Industrial Engineer Order of the Engineer (Italy) —
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Journals
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Books
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2019 Shaw, I., Kildare, J., Evans, M., Chinnici, A., Sparks, C., Rubaiyat, S., . . . Medwell, P. (2019). A Theoretical Review of Rotating Detonation Engines. In S. Rao (Ed.), An Introduction to Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Flows [Working Title]. London, UK: IntechOpen.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2019 Evans, M. J., Chinnici, A., Medwell, P. R., & Dally, B. (2019). Autoignition of Hydrogen/Ammonia Blends at Elevated Pressures and Temperatures. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Hydrogen Safety. Adelaide, Australia. 2019 Chinnici, A., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). Performance characteristics of a hybrid solar receiver combustor utilising hydrogen or syngas. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2126 (pp. 1-8). online: AIP.
2019 Chinnici, A., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). Stability and performance characteristics of a laboratory-scale MILD combustor fed with syngas. Effect of H2/CO ratio. In Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC 2019). Fukuoka, Japan: The Combustion Institute. 2019 Rowhani, A., Sun, Z., Chinnici, A., Medwell, P., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). Effect of bluff-body diameter on the flow field and residence time of turbulent ethylene/nitrogen flames. In 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2019.
Scopus12018 Alipourtarzanagh, E., Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2018). Experimental Investigation of the Interaction of the Flow Inside and Outside a Cavity Receiver. In Proceeding of APSRC 2018 (pp. 1-19). online: Australian PV Institute. 2018 Alipourtarzanagh, E., Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2018). Experimental Investigation of the Flow Characteristics Near the Aperture of a
Model Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-4). online: AFMS.2018 Rowhani, A., Chinnici, A., Evans, M., Medwell, P., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2018). Variation of residence time in non-premixed turbulent bluff-body ethylene flames as a function of burner diameter. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Lee, K., Chinnici, A., Jafarian, M., Arjomandi, M., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2018). Experimental investigation of the effects of wind speed, aperture ratio and tilt angle on the convective heat losses from a solar cavity receiver. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Chinnici, A., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2018). Performance characteristics of a Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor fed with Hydrogen and operating in the MILD combustion regime. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-3). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Chinnici, A., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2018). Performance of a hybrid solar receiver combustor. In Proceedings of the 23rd SolarPACES International Conference Vol. 2033 (pp. 180004-1-180004-8). Santiago, Chile: AIP.
2018 Long, S., Lau, T., Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2018). The effect of aspect ratio on the flow characteristics of a Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Alipourtarzanagh, E., Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2018). Experimental investigation of the flow characteristics near the aperture of a model hybrid solar receiver combustor. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2018. 2018 Long, S., Lau, T., Chinnici, A., Tian, Z. F., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2018). Effect of jet azimuthal angle on the flow field within a Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor. In Proceedings of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference (APSRC) (pp. 1-11). Melbourne, Australia: Australian PV Institute. 2017 Davis, D., Chinnici, A., Saw, W., Lau, T., & Nathan, G. (2017). Particle Residence Time Distributions in a Solar Vortex Receiver. In Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference (pp. 1-13). Online: Australian PV Institute. 2017 Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2017). An experimental investigation of the heat transfer performance in a hybrid solar receiver combustor operating with the solar-only and combustion-only modes. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2017 Vol. 2017-December (pp. 1-4). online: The Combustion Institute. 2017 Lim, J., Chinnici, A., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2017). Assessing the techno-economics of modular hybrid solar thermal systems. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (SolarPACES 2016), as published in AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1850 (pp. 110007-1-110007-8). Online: AIP Publishing.
Scopus2 WoS12017 Coventry, J., Arjomandi, M., Asselineau, C., Chinnici, A., Corsi, C., Davis, D., . . . Saw, W. (2017). Development of ASTRI high-temperature solar receivers. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1850 (pp. 030011-1-030011-9). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: AMER INST PHYSICS.
Scopus2 WoS12017 Lu, Z., Jafarian, M., Chinnici, A., Arjomandi, M., & Nathan, G. (2017). Flow behavior inside a novel rotating fluidized bed for solar gasification of biomass. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1850 (pp. 110009-1-110009-8). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: AMER INST PHYSICS.
2016 Lim, J., Nathan, G., Dally, B., & Chinnici, A. (2016). Techno-economic assessment of a hybrid solar receiver and combustor. In V. Rajpaul, & C. Richter (Eds.), AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1734 (pp. 8 pages). Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA: AIP.
Scopus14 WoS82016 Long, S., Tian, Z., Chinnici, A., Lau, T., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2016). Effect of jet inclination angle on the flow field within a Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-4). online: AFM. 2016 Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Lim, J., Long, S., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2016). Effect of combustion mode on heat transfer inside a hybrid solar receiver combustor. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2016. 2016 Chinnici, A., Tian, Z., Lim, J., Long, S., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2016). Effect of combustion mode on heat transfer inside a hybrid solar receiver combustor. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-4). Australia: AFMS. 2015 Long, S., tian, Z., nathan, G., chinnici., & dally, B. (2015). CFD Modelling of Isothermal Multiple Jets in a Combustor. In Eleventh International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries (pp. 1-6). Online: CSIRO. 2015 Chinnici, A., Xue, Y., Lau, T., Arjomandi, M., & Nathan, G. (2015). Experimental characterisation of the vortex structure within a Solar Expanding-Vortex Particle Receiver-Reactor. In D. Honnery, & D. Edgington-Mitchell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion (pp. 41-44). Clayton, Victoria: Monash University. 2015 Saha, M., Dally, B., Medwell, P., & Chinnici, A. (2015). Effect of Turbulence on the MILD Combustion Characteristics of Victorian Brown Coal. In Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 92-95). Online: The Combustion Institute. 2015 Saha, M., Chinnici, A., Medwell, P., & Dally, B. (2015). Numerical investigation of pulverised coal combustion in a self-recuperative MILD combustion furnace. In ASPACC 2015 - 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (pp. 1-6). online: The Combustion Institute.
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2019 Chinnici, A., & Evans, M. J. (2019). Influence of steam dilution on flame structure and soot formation of hot, diluted ethylene flames. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 2019 Australian Combustion Symposium. Adelaide, Australia. 2019 Kildare, J. A., Evans, M., Chinnici, A., & Medwell, P. (2019). Classification of MILD and autoignitive ethylene flames diluted with N₂, O₂ and CO₂. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 2019 Australian Combustion Symposium. online: The Combustion Institute.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2018 Co-Supervisor Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Gas-Particle Flows in Solar Receivers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yining Tang 2017 Co-Supervisor Design and Development of a Fluidic Seal of HSRC Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Elham Alipour -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2017 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Characterising the Performance of Vortex-Based Solar Thermal Particle Receiver-Reactors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dominic Michael Walldorf Davis 2016 - 2019 Co-Supervisor The Influence of Wind on the Heat Losses from Solar Cavity Receivers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Leok Lee 2015 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Techno-Economic Analysis of Hybrid Concentrating Solar Power Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Jin Han Lim
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