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Sebastian Verhelst

Sebastian Verhelst

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
48
Citations
11577
World Ranking
4482
National Ranking
54

Overview

Sebastian Verhelst is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research focus primarily within engineering and chemical engineering fields. Their work spans multiple subfields including fluid flow and transfer processes, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, automotive engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Their research topics concentrate on advanced combustion engine technologies, combustion and flame dynamics, biodiesel production and applications, vehicle emissions and performance, catalytic processes in materials science, combustion and detonation processes, and heat transfer involving supercritical fluids.

Verhelst has contributed to various publication venues where their work frequently appears. These include:

  • SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • Fuel
  • Energies
  • Fuel Communications
  • SAE International Journal of Advances and Current Practices in Mobility

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Verhelst cover topics related to dual-fuel engine operation, fuel additives, and combustion modeling. Selected examples include:

  • Retrofitting a high-speed marine engine to dual-fuel methanol-diesel operation: A comparison of multiple and single point methanol port injection, 2021, Fuel Communications
  • A concise review of glycerol derivatives for use as fuel additives, 2023, Heliyon
  • Performance and emissions of a high-speed marine dual-fuel engine operating with methanol-water blends as a fuel, 2022, Fuel
  • Low Load Ignitability of Methanol in a Heavy-Duty Compression Ignition Engine, 2022, SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • A novel technique for detailed and time-efficient combustion modeling of fumigated dual-fuel internal combustion engines, 2020, Applied Thermal Engineering

Frequent collaborators in Verhelst's publications include Martin Tunér, Tara Larsson, Jeroen Dierickx, Tom Robeyn, and Yi-Hao Pu.

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines

    Sebastian Verhelst;Thomas Wallner

  • Combustion and emissions characteristics of a dual fuel engine operated on alternative gaseous fuels

    Nirendra N. Mustafi;Robert R. Raine;Sebastian Verhelst

  • Methanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines

    Sebastian Verhelst;James W. G. Turner;Louis Sileghem;Jeroen Vancoillie

  • Recent progress in the use of hydrogen as a fuel for internal combustion engines

    Sebastian Verhelst

  • Laminar burning velocities of lean hydrogen-air mixtures at pressures up to 1.0 MPa

    D Bradley;M Lawes;K Liu;Sebastian Verhelst

  • Laminar burning velocity of gasoline and the gasoline surrogate components iso-octane, n-heptane and toluene

    L. Sileghem;Vladimir Alekseev;J. Vancoillie;K. M. Van Geem

  • The potential of methanol as a fuel for flex-fuel and dedicated spark-ignition engines

    J. Vancoillie;J. Demuynck;L. Sileghem;M. Van De Ginste

  • The Chemical Route to a Carbon Dioxide Neutral World.

    Johan A. Martens;Annemie Bogaerts;Norbert De Kimpe;Pierre A. Jacobs

  • Laminar and unstable burning velocities and Markstein lengths of hydrogen–air mixtures at engine-like conditions

    Sebastian Verhelst;R Woolley;M Lawes;Roger Sierens

  • Multi-zone thermodynamic modelling of spark-ignition engine combustion -An overview

    Sebastian Verhelst;Chris Sheppard

  • A Critical Review of Experimental Research on Hydrogen Fueled SI Engines

    Sebastian Verhelst;Roger Sierens;Stefaan Verstraeten

  • Prediction of the cetane number of biodiesel using artificial neural networks and multiple linear regression

    Ramón Piloto-Rodríguez;Yisel Sánchez-Borroto;Magin Lapuerta;Leonardo Goyos-Pérez

  • Increasing the power output of hydrogen internal combustion engines by means of supercharging and exhaust gas recirculation

    Sebastian Verhelst;Pieter Maesschalck;Nathalie Rombaut;Roger Sierens

  • Laminar burning velocities of primary reference fuels and simple alcohols

    L. Sileghem;Vladimir Alekseev;J. Vancoillie;Elna Heimdal Nilsson

  • Hydrogen engine-specific properties

    Sebastian Verhelst;Roger Sierens

  • Assessment of diesel engine performance when fueled with biodiesel from algae and microalgae: An overview

    Ramón Piloto-Rodríguez;Yisel Sánchez-Borroto;Eliezer Ahmed Melo-Espinosa;Sebastian Verhelst

  • Comparison of the renewable transportation fuels, hydrogen and methanol formed from hydrogen, with gasoline – Engine efficiency study

    Jeroen Vancoillie;Joachim Demuynck;Louis Sileghem;M Van de Ginste

  • Experimental study of NOx reduction on a medium speed heavy duty diesel engine by the application of EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) and Miller timing

    Roel Verschaeren;Wouter Schaepdryver;Thomas Serruys;Marc Bastiaen

  • A quasi-dimensional model for the power cycle of a hydrogen-fuelled ICE

    Sebastian Verhelst;Roger Sierens

  • Aspects concerning the optimisation of a hydrogen fueled engine.

    Sebastian Verhelst;Roger Sierens

  • Hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines

    Sebastian Verhelst;Thomas Wallner;Roger Sierens

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel De Paepe
Michel De Paepe Ghent University
Francesco Contino
Francesco Contino Université Catholique de Louvain
Alexander A. Konnov
Alexander A. Konnov Lund University
Gianluca D'Errico
Gianluca D'Errico Polytechnic University of Milan
Martin Tuner
Martin Tuner Lund University
Jan Vierendeels
Jan Vierendeels Ghent University
Jérôme Bellettre
Jérôme Bellettre University of Nantes
George Kosmadakis
George Kosmadakis National Technical University of Athens
Peter P. Edwards
Peter P. Edwards University of Oxford
Bruno De Meulenaer
Bruno De Meulenaer Ghent University

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