The Combustion Institute is an international, non-profit, educational and scientific society. Founded in 1954, CI promotes and disseminates research activities in all areas of combustion science and technology for the advancement of many diverse communities around the world. The International Symposium on Combustion is its world congress and major biennial meeting.
The Combustion Institute directs the publication of two scientific journals, Combustion and Flame, published monthly and the Proceedings of The Combustion Institute, published biennially.
Final call for extended abstracts by Dec. 15, 2024!
The 16th International Conference on Combustion and Energy Utilization will be held on Feb 09-13, 2025 in Hong Kong.
We are honored to invite Profs. Assaad Masri (University of Sydney), Fei Qi (Shanghai Jiaotong Univer...
The 14th U.S. National Combustion Meeting (USNCM) will be held at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, with the ESSCI serving as hosts. The technical program will begin on Monday morning, March 17 and will end mid-day on Wednesday, March 19. More details about the meeting are avail...
The 5th International Workshop on Oxy-Fuel Combustion will focus on the combustion of solid fuels in air and CO2/O2 atmosphere. It addresses researchers in industry, universities, and research centers who are concerned with solid fuel combustion and heat transfer processes. The workshop topics are: ...
The 41st International Symposium on Combustion will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 26-31 July 2026.
Our 36 sections are based in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, with a total membership that exceeds 6,000 combustion scientists and engineers. The CI directs the publication of two scientific journals (Combustion and Flame and Proceedings of the Combustion Institute) and oversees the organization of technical meetings around the world, including the biennial International Symposium on Combustion... The field of combustion is interdisciplinary in nature. It attracts brilliant scientists and engineers from a wide spectrum of training and expertise to address real-world problems. Through research and training, young scientists and engineers develop diverse skills which they can apply broadly to energy and propulsion problems, leading to rewarding careers in academia, industry and beyond.
Hai Wang
President, The Combustion Institute