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Elizabeth Fisher-York

Associate Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • combustion and pollution
  • energy, environment, and sustainable development

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • Combustion chemistry as it affects a variety of practical problems such as fire suppression, hazardous waste incineration, and fuel combustion suited to carbon sequestration
  • Combustion chemistry of organophosphorus and organosulfur compounds, focusing on flame inhibition and mechanisms of destruction and byproducts formation
  • Flow reactors, premixed flat flames, and opposed-jet diffusion flames, with a variety of measurements techniques including extractive FTIR (Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry), GC/MS (gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry, visible emission spectroscopy, in-situ FTIR, and radiation-compensated thermocouple thermometry
  • Detailed chemical kinetic calculations

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1990
  • M.S., California at Berkeley, 1987
  • B.S., Yale University, 1982

Research Grants

  • DESTRUCTION CHEMISTRY OF MUSTARD SIMULANTS

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings

Jayaweera, T.M., Fisher, E.M., Fleming J.W.,   
"Flame suppression by aqueous solutions containing phosphorus", 141 n.3 308-321, 2005.


Nogueira, M. F. M., Fisher. E. M.   
"Effects of dimethyl methylphosphonate on premixed methane flames."Combustion and Flame, 132(3) 352-363, 2003.


Curran, H.J., Fisher, E.M., Glaude, P.-A, Marinov, N.M., Pitz, W.J., Westbrook, C.K., Layton, D.W., Flynn, P.F.,  Durrett, R.P., zur Loye, A.O., Akinyami, O.C., Dryer F.L.     
"Detailed chemical kinetic modeling of diesel combustion with oxygenated fuels." SAE paper 2001-01-0653.

Fisher. E. M., Pitz, W.J., Curran, H.J., and Westbrook, C.K   
"Detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms for combustion of oxygenated fuel" Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 28: 1579-1586 2000.


Zegers, E.J.P., Williams, B.A., Fisher, E.M., Fleming, J.W., Sheinson, R.S.    
"Suppression of nonpremixed flames by fluorinated ethanes and propanes." Combustion and Flame, 121 171-187, 2000.


MacDonald, M.A., Jayaweera, T.M., Fisher, E.M., Gouldin, F.C.   
"Inhibition of non-premixed flames by phosphorus-containing compounds." Combustion and Flame, 116 166-176, 1999.