Fuels and Fuel Technology

A Summarized Manual

Wilfrid Francis, Martin C. Peters

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780080252490
• eBook ISBN: 9781483147949
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Fuels and Fuel Technology: A Summarized Manual provides concise and accurate summary of existing knowledge and literature concerning fuel technology. The book discusses several kinds of fuels and topics relating to them, such as their properties, theories, composition, types, and classifications. The manual is organized into sections that cover a specific kind of fuel. Section A covers solid fuels, which includes wood, peat, and coal. Section B deals with liquid fuels, such as petroleum oils, diesel fuels, gasoline, and kerosene. Section C discusses gaseous fuels such as natural gas, and Section D tackles alternative energy, which includes wind power, water power, wave power, and solar power. Section E talks about energy planning, while section F covers fuel technology. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers alike who concern themselves with the aspects of different kinds of fuels.

Section F

Fuel Technology

Outline

Data Sheet No. 151: Choice of Fuels—Technical and Economic Considerations—Specifications

Data Sheet No. 152: Central and Space Heating—General

Data Sheet No. 153: Properties of Steam—Introduction

Data Sheet No. 154: Work Done by Steam—Introduction

Data Sheet No. 155: First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics—Thermal Cycles

Data Sheet No. 156: Pass-out and Back-pressure Turbines—The Throttling Calorimeter

Data Sheet No. 157: Industrial Boilers

Data Sheet No. 158: Boilers—Auxiliary Plant

Data Sheet No. 159: Boiler Waters—Feed Water Treatment

Data Sheet No. 160: Heat Balances—Boilers

Data Sheet No. 161: Properties of Metals—Testing—Resistance to Heat and Corrosion

Data Sheet No. 162: The External Corrosion of Boiler-plant Metals

Data Sheet No. 163: The Flow of Fluids

Data Sheet No. 164: Measurement of Fluid Flow

Data Sheet No. 165: The Transfer of Heat

Data Sheet No. 166: Supplementary Calculations

Data Sheet No. 167: Refractories

Data Sheet No. 168: Thermal Insulation—Lagging

Data Sheet No. 169: Furnaces

Data Sheet No. 170: Heat Balances—Furnaces

Data Sheet No. 171: Control of Atmosphere in Metallurgical Furnaces

Data Sheet No. 172: Atmospheric Pollution

Data Sheet No. 173: Prevention of Atmospheric Pollution by Industrial Gases

Data Sheet No. 174: The Gas Turbine

Data Sheet No. 175: Instruments—Measuring

Data Sheet No. 176: Instrumentation—Automatic Control

Data Sheet No. 177: Electro-technology Applied to Fuel Technology

Data Sheet No. 178: Waste Heat Boilers

Data Sheet No. 179: Mass Transfer in Distillation and Drying

Data Sheet No. 180: Single- and Multiple-effect Evaporators

Data Sheet No. 151

Choice of Fuels—Technical and Economic Considerations—Specifications

Publisher Summary

This chapter presents technical and economic considerations related to fuels. Ready availability and certainty of delivery of a fuel are of great importance to the consumer. The final choice of fuel may, therefore, depend upon the location of production and consuming points and the mode of delivery that is usual or possible. Coal occurs in Great Britain in far greater proportions than any other fuel. It is the parent of most of the fuel gases and of some liquid fuels. Coal mines also contribute small, but increasing, proportions of natural gas. Technical disadvantage of coal as a fuel is that its handling is a dusty operation. Conveying and transferring from one container to another causes much breakage, with the production of unwanted dust and slack. Coals deteriorate in storage, with reduction in size and calorific value. In extreme cases, spontaneous combustion occurs. The capital costs for fuels vary. Coal- and oil-fired units require provision for storage. This may be cheap for coal and dear for oil. Handling costs are in the reverse order, dear for coal and cheap for oil.

A General

Fuels available commercially in Great Britain comprise:

Solid	Liquid	Gaseous
Coals	Gasoline	Natural gas
Cokes—	Kerosine	Oil gas
Gas coke	Gas oil	Coal gas
Metallurgical coke	Light, medium and heavy fuel oils	Water gas
Low-and medium-temperature cokes (Smokeless fuels)	Coal tar fuels	Producer gas “Bottled” gases (liquefied propane and butane)
Briquettes

The manufacture, preparation for sale, and properties of these fuels have been discussed fully in Sections A, B and C. In this data shee...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Some Other Pergamon Titles of Interest
• Copyright
• Preface to the Second (SI) Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Section A: Solid Fuels
• Section B: Liquid Fuels
• Section C: Gaseous Fuels
• Section D: Alternative Energy
• Section E: Energy Planning
• Section F: Fuel Technology