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Leonid Tartakovsky

Leonid Tartakovsky

Head of The Technion Internal Combustion Engines Lab

Education

  • 1986 – D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Central Automobile and Automotive Engines Research Institute (NAMI), Moscow, USSR
  • 1980 – M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude), Mechanical Engineering, Moscow Automotive Mechanical Institute, USSR

Research Interests

  • Thermofluids
  • Energy conversion in hybrid cycles involving combustion
  • Waste heat recovery in electric, hybrid and motor vehicles
  • Thermochemical recuperation
  • Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines
  • UAV propulsion
  • Sustainable fuels
  • Fuel-air mixing
  • Pollutants formation and emissions control

Guest Appointments

  • 2003 – Visiting Scientist, Environmental Studies & Testing Laboratory, TNO Automotive, Delft, the Netherlands

Public Professional Activities

Editor
  • 2021-present: Associate Editor, Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering – Energetics and Propulsion. Publisher – Frontiers
  • 2020-present: Handling Editor, Non-event SAE Technical Papers. Publisher – SAE International
  • 2020-2021: Guest Editor, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Internal Combustion Engines, Energies. Publisher – MDPI.
  • 2018: Guest Editor, Special Issue on UAV Propulsion, Drones. Publisher – MDPI.
  • 2017: Associate Editor, SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants. Publisher – SAE International
  • 2016-present: Associate Editor, SAE International Journal of Engines. Publisher – SAE International
Editorial Board
  • Editorial Board member of five professional journals.
Public professional committees (recent appointments)
  • 2024-2025: Member, Executive Committee, International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES)
  • 2022: External referee, Habilitation committee in the academic subject of “Applied Thermodynamics”, Graz University of Technology (Senate appointment)
  • 2022: Member, External Evaluation Committee for the evaluation process of higher education in Automotive Engineering, The Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education
  • 2022-present: Member, SAE Technical Committee, Small Powertrains and Energy Systems Technology, SAE International
  • 2022: Member, Evaluation Committee for the “Clean Technol. 2020 Best Paper Awards”
  • 2021: Foreign Member, Board of Examiners of the PhD thesis, University of Salento, Italy
  • 2018-present: Member, Thermal Management Activity Committee, SAE International
  • 2018-present: Member, SAE Engine Combustion Committee, SAE International
  • 2017: Foreign Member, Board of Examiners of the PhD thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
  • 2017-present: Member, Central Committee 6300 on Vehicles, the Standards Institution of Israel
  • 2017-2018: Member, Executive Committee, SAE Powertrain, Fuels & Lubricants Activity, SAE International
  • 2016-2018: Chairman, SAE Committee on New Engines, Components, Actuators and Sensors, SAE International

Membership in Professional Societies

  • SAE International
  • ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • IAHE – International Association of Hydrogen Energy
  • ISEES – International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

  • 2023: ISEES Fellow, for outstanding contribution to the science of hydrogen combustion in internal combustion engines
  • 2021: Best Poster Award (1st prize) at the 35th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute for the research “Multi-stage heat release of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether 1 (PODE1)”, Tel-Aviv, December 02, 2021 (together with D. Buntin)
  • 2021: GTEP Grant for Article Publication in the Best Professional Journals in Energy, Technion (for the article “Experimental comparison of performance and emissions of a direct-injection engine fed with alternative gaseous fuels” published in Energy Conversion and Management, 2022, 251, 114988)
  • 2019: Best Poster Award (1st prize) at the 33rd Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute for the research “Reforming-controlled compression ignition with OME1”, Tel-Aviv, December 26, 2019 (together with D. Buntin)
  • 2019: SAE Top Contributor (inaugural Top Contributors class, 48 people from around the world were selected, of whom only 4 were from outside the US)
  • 2018: SAE Forest R. McFarland Award for outstanding key contribution to SAE/JSAE Small Engine Technology Conference
  • 2018: Certificate for outstanding service to SAE as Chair, New Engines, Components, Actuators and Sensors Committee 2016-2018‎
  • 2017: Best Poster Award (3rd place) at the 21st International Conference on Combustion Generated Nanoparticles for the research “A comparative analysis of ultrafine particles air pollution inside diesel-propelled trains and intercity buses”, ETH, Zurich, June 19-22 (together with V. Abramesko, J. Czerwinski and A. Mayer)
  • 2016: Certificate for distinguished service to SAE as Chair, Small Engine Technology Conference Technical Committee 2014-2016‎
  • 2016: SAE Fellow, SAE International
  • 2015-2018: Outstanding Reviewer, Citation, Elsevier:
    Energy – 2015, 2017; Fuel – 2016; Environmental Pollution – 2017; Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science – 2018; Chemical Engineering Science – 2018; Applied Thermal Engineering – 2018; Energy Conversion and Management – 2018; International Journal of Hydrogen Energy – 2018
  • 2014: Uzi & Michal Halevy Grant for Innovative Applied Engineering Research, Technion
  • 2010: 2012, 2013, 2016: Excellence in Teaching, Citation, Technion
  • 1998: Science on Service of Environment – Leading Research Projects in the field. Israeli Ministry of Environment, Special Jubilee edition of selected studies (together with Y. Zvirin, M. Gutman, E. Golgotiu, Y. Aleinikov)

Selected Publications

  • D. Diskin, Y. Kuhr, I. Y. Ben-Hamo, S. Spatari, L. Tartakovsky (2023) Environmental Benefits of Combined Electro-Thermo-Chemical Technology over Battery-Electric Powertrains. Applied Energy, 351, 121833.
  • D. Tapiero, D. Diskin, N. Tzabar and L. Tartakovsky (2023) Performance of Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells Fed with Pure Hydrogen and Methanol Steam Reforming Products – experimental study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.07.180
  • A. Thawko, A. Eyal, L. Tartakovsky (2022) Experimental comparison of performance and emissions of a direct-injection engine fed with alternative gaseous fuels. Energy Conversion and Management, 251, 114988.
  • D. Buntin, L. Tartakovsky (2022) Heat Release Peculiarities of Polyoxymethylene Dimethyl Ether 1 – Part I: Effect of Initial Thermochemical Conditions. Fuel, 321, 124007.
  • D. Diskin, L. Tartakovsky (2022) Finite-Time Energy Conversion in a Hybrid Cycle Combining Electrochemical, Combustion and Thermochemical Recuperation Processes. Energy Conversion and Management, 262, 115673.
  •  A. Thawko, L. Tartakovsky (2022) The Mechanism of Particle Formation in Non-Premixed Hydrogen Combustion in a Direct-Injection Internal Combustion Engine. Fuel, 327, 125187.
  •  A. Eyal, A. Thawko, V. Baibikov, L. Tartakovsky (2021) Performance and Pollutant Emission of the Reforming-Controlled Compression Ignition Engine – experimental study. Energy Conversion and Management 237: 114126.
  • A. Thawko, H. Yadav, A. Eyal, M. Shapiro, L. Tartakovsky (2019) Particle emissions of direct injection internal combustion engine fed with a hydrogen-rich reformate. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44: 28342-28356.
  • L. Tartakovsky, M. Sheintuch (2018) Fuel reforming in internal combustion engines (review article). Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 67: 88-114. Featured as a highly cited article in Web of Science
  • A. Poran, A. Thawko, A. Eyal, L. Tartakovsky (2018) Direct Injection Internal combustion engine with high-pressure thermochemical recuperation – study of the first prototype. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 43: 11969-11980.
  • V. Abramesco, L. Tartakovsky (2017) Air pollution by ultrafine particles inside diesel-propelled passenger trains. Environmental Pollution 226: 288-296. Featured by all leading media in Israel
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

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