The Ferris group conducts fundamental research to accelerate the design and analysis of next-generation, low-carbon fuels. One particular area of focus is sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). Ongoing research efforts combine laser absorption spectroscopy and machine learning to understand how molecular structure impacts chemical/physical fuel properties, and how functional groups influence reaction pathways that lead to pollutant formation.
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Boddapati, V., Ferris, A. M., & Hanson, R. K. (2024). Predicting the physical and chemical properties of sustainable aviation fuels using elastic-net-regularized linear models based on extended-wavelength FTIR spectra. Fuel, 356, 129557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2023.129557
Boddapati, V., Ferris, A. M., & Hanson, R. K. (2023). On the use of extended-wavelength FTIR spectra for the prediction of combustion properties of jet fuels and their constituent species. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 39(1), 1347–1355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2022.08.041
Heyne, J., Yang, Z., Boehm, R., Rauch, B., Le Clercq, P., Hanson, R., Ferris, A., Dooley, S., Ure, A., Blakey, S., Lewis, C., & Colket, M. (2021). Prescreening of sustainable aviation jet fuels. In Fuel Effects on Operability of Aircraft Gas Turbine Combustors (Vol. 262, pp. 487–523). American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. https://doi.org/10.2514/4.106040