Editorial: Advanced combustion technologies for low carbon emissions

CO2 emissions from typical fossil fuel combustion process, such as heat supply, power generation, engine-driven vehicles, aircraft and rockets et al., lead to the global warming. Advanced combustion technologies for fossil fuels and carbon free fuels can reduce CO2 emission during the practical applications. Hence, the combustion behaviors and the reactivity, flame instability, amount of pollutant emissions from fossil fuels, carbon-free or carbon-neutral fuels such as H2, NH3, methanol, and biofuels, are drawing increasing attention in the current world. Many challenges should be solved with advanced combustion technologies. This subject set advanced combustion technologies including pyrolysis, mild combustion, catalytic combustion and carbon free fuels combustion, diagnostic technologies including flow velocity, species and temperature etc., which will helping to obtain fundamental understanding of the advanced combustion technologies.