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  • 2019 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for excellent contributions to the understanding of pyrolysis, combustion, and gasification reactions of coal, biomass, oil shale, and live shrubs

Overview

Thomas H. Fletcher is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Global and Planetary Change, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.

Their research work spans multiple main topics such as Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Combustion and flame dynamics, Fire dynamics and safety research, Fire effects on ecosystems, Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Coal Properties and Utilization, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Fletcher has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Chemical and Thermal Sintering of Supported Metals with Emphasis on Cobalt Catalysts During Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • A review of coal heating value correlations with application to coal char, tar, and other fuels, 2020, Fuel
  • Comparison of pyrolysis of live wildland fuels heated by radiation vs. convection, 2020, Fuel
  • Evaluation of NOx-Reduction Measures for Iron-Ore Rotary Kilns, 2020, Energy & Fuels
  • Application of compositional data analysis to determine the effects of heating mode, moisture status and plant species on pyrolysates, 2021, International Journal of Wildland Fire

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fletcher include:

  • David R. Weise
  • Mohammad-Saeed Safdari
  • Mahsa Alizadeh
  • Andrew P. Richards
  • Denver Haycock

Publication venues where Fletcher has frequently published consist of:

  • Fuel
  • Fire
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Energy & Fuels
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among book publications, Fletcher has authored a title published by Springer Nature:

  • Clean Coal and Sustainable Energy, 2021

Professional recognition includes receiving the Fellowship of the Combustion Institute in 2019 for contributions to the understanding of pyrolysis, combustion, and gasification reactions of coal, biomass, oil shale, and live shrubs.

Best Publications

  • Chemical model of coal devolatilization using percolation lattice statistics

    David M. Grant;Ronald J. Pugmire;Thomas H. Fletcher;Alan R. Kerstein

  • Chemical percolation model for devolatilization. 3. Direct use of carbon-13 NMR data to predict effects of coal type

    Thomas H. Fletcher;Alan R. Kerstein;Ronald J. Pugmire;Mark S. Solum

  • Progress in coal pyrolysis

    P.R. Solomon;T.H. Fletcher;R.J. Pugmire

  • Chemical percolation model for devolatilization. 2. Temperature and heating rate effects on product yields

    Thomas H. Fletcher;Alan R. Kerstein;Ronald J. Pugmire;David M. Grant

  • Soot in coal combustion systems

    Thomas H. Fletcher;Jinliang Ma;James R. Rigby;Alexander L. Brown

  • Development and Application of a Correlation of 13C NMR Chemical Structural Analyses of Coal Based on Elemental Composition and Volatile Matter Content

    Dominic Genetti;Thomas H. Fletcher;Ronald J. Pugmire

  • 13C NMR Analysis of Soot Produced from Model Compounds and a Coal

    Mark S. Solum;Adel F. Sarofim;Ronald J. Pugmire;Thomas H. Fletcher

  • Solid-state 13C NMR characterization of matched tars and chars from rapid coal devolatilization

    S.T. Perry;E.M. Hambly;T.H. Fletcher;M.S. Solum

  • The Surface Characteristics and Reactivity of Residual Carbon in Coal Gasification Slag

    Xianglong Zhao;Cai Zeng;Yanyan Mao;Wenhua Li

  • Heating rate and temperature effects on pyrolysis products from live wildland fuels

    Mohammad-Saeed Safdari;Elham Amini;David R. Weise;Thomas H. Fletcher

  • Chemical and Thermal Sintering of Supported Metals with Emphasis on Cobalt Catalysts During Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis

    Mahmood Rahmati;Mohammad-Saeed Safdari;Thomas H. Fletcher;Morris D. Argyle

  • Simulated Land-Based Turbine Deposits Generated in an Accelerated Deposition Facility

    Jared W. Jensen;Sean W. Squire;Jeffrey P. Bons;Thomas H. Fletcher

  • Nitrogen release during coal combustion

    Larry L. Baxter;Reginald E. Mitchell;Thomas H. Fletcher;Robert H. Hurt

  • Development of bioreactors for comparative study of natural attenuation, biostimulation, and bioaugmentation of petroleum-hydrocarbon contaminated soil.

    Mohammad-Saeed Safdari;Hamid-Reza Kariminia;Mahmood Rahmati;Farhad Fazlollahi

  • Nitrogen Transformations in Coal during Pyrolysis

    S. R. Kelemen;M. L. Gorbaty;P. J. Kwiatek;T. H. Fletcher

  • (Just) a walk with the dog? Animal geographies and negotiating walking spaces

    Thomas Fletcher;Louise Platt

  • Time-resolved particle temperature and mass loss measurements of a bituminous coal during devolatilization

    Thomas H. Fletcher

  • Effects of Moisture on Ignition Behavior of Moist California Chaparral and Utah Leaves

    Thomas H. Fletcher;Brent M. Pickett;Steven G. Smith;Gregory S. Spittle

  • Decreases in the Swelling and Porosity of Bituminous Coals during Devolatilization at High Heating Rates

    Thomas K. Gale;Calvin H. Bartholomew;Thomas H. Fletcher

  • ‘Does he look like a Paki?’ an exploration of ‘whiteness’, positionality and reflexivity in inter-racial sports research

    Thomas Fletcher

  • Time-Resolved Temperature Measurements of Individual Coal Particles During Devolatilization

    Thomas H. Fletcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald J. Pugmire
Ronald J. Pugmire University of Utah
Jeffrey P. Bons
Jeffrey P. Bons The Ohio State University
Larry L. Baxter
Larry L. Baxter Brigham Young University
Brent W. Webb
Brent W. Webb Brigham Young University
Calvin H. Bartholomew
Calvin H. Bartholomew Brigham Young University
Alan R. Kerstein
Alan R. Kerstein Sandia National Laboratories
Adel F. Sarofim
Adel F. Sarofim University of Utah
Randall E. Winans
Randall E. Winans Argonne National Laboratory
Haoquan Hu
Haoquan Hu Dalian University of Technology
Robert H. Hurt
Robert H. Hurt Brown University

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