Clean Combustion Technologies

Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Part B

Maria da Graca Carvalho, F. C. Lockwood, Woodrow A Fiveland, Christos Papadopoulos

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040282809
• Subtopic: Environmental Management
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The seventy-five referenced papers in this volume represent the second in a series of biannual benchmarks for technologies that maximize energy conversion while minimizing undesirable emissions. Covering the entire range of industrial and transport combustion as well as strategies for energy R&D, these state-of-the-art contributions will be indispensable to mechanical and chemical engineers in academia and industry, and technical personnel in military, energy, and environmental agencies of government.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction to the Series
• Preface
• Advisory Committee
• Sponsoring Organizations
• Abatement of NOx Emission from a Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor
• Simulation of a Circulating Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Including Flow, Combustion, Pollutant Formation and Retention
• Factors Influencing the Combustion Efficiency of Coal in a Circulating Fluidized Bed
• Analysis of CAFBC Behaviour Using a Numerical Model
• Clean Combustion of Energetic Materials in a Fluidised Bed
• Control of Emissions of Mercuric Chloride by Adsorption on Sorbalit™
• Evaluation of Long-Term Full-Scale Incineration Tests with Differenct Types of Refuse Derived Fuel
• Low Pollution Technology in Incineration and Slagging of Municipal Solid Waste
• Treatment of Scrubber Effluent from a Multiple Hearth Incinerator
• Gas Pollutants from Detonation and Combustion of Industrial Explosives
• Natural Gas Vehicles for a Clean Environment An Overview and the Trends for the Future
• Effects of a Ring Crevice on Hydrocarbon Emission from Spark Ignition Engines
• Partial Disconnection of Some Cylinders of Work as a Way of Diminishing Diesel Engine Exhaust Gases Toxicity
• Efficiency of Spark-Ignition Engine Fuelled with Methanol-Gasoline Blends
• Measurement of the Exhaust Emissions from Otto-Engines Equipped with a Three-Way Catalyst Regarding the Secondary Emission of Nitrous Oxide
• Experimental Study of NOx Reduction by Impinging-Jet-Flame in a Closed Vessel with Opposed Dual Prechambers
• CO2 Mitigation through Mixed Steam and CO2 Gas Turbine Cycles
• The Design of a Coal-Fired, High-Temperature Furnace for an Advanced Combined-Cycle System
• Coal Gasification Power Cycles Using Mixtures of CO2, Steam and Argon
• Concept of Boiler Efficiency Assessment Expert System
• Gas Reburning. Influence of Different Variables on the NOx Reduction
• Development of an Emissions Control System for a Coal-fired Power Plant
• Dilute Oxygen Combustion: A New Approach for Low NOx Combustion
• Influence of a Hydrocarbon, C3H6 or C3H8, on the Reduction of NO by CO in the Absence and in the Presence of O2, with a Pd/Al2O3 Catalyst
• Granulation of Filter Dusts from Combustion Plants
• Model-Based Study for Oxy-Fuel Furnaces for Low-NOx Melting Process
• A Numerical and Experimental Study of the Turbulent Combustion of Natural Gas with Air and Oxygen in an Industrial Furnace
• Development of Burners and Combustion Facilities in Kakogawa Works
• Ultra Low NOx Burners for Industrial Process Heaters
• The Prediction of the Performance Effects of Powdered Coal Injection into the Tuyere of a Blast Furnace
• A Detailed Kinetic Study of Ammonia Oxidation
• A Route to NOx Reduction via Flame Stretch
• Soot Morphology and Optical Properties in Nonpremixed Turbulent Flame Environments
• Application of Soot Mass Growth Rates Determined in a Plug Flow Reactor on Soot Prediction in Turbulent Diffusion Flames
• Acoustic Pyrometry: A Correlation Between Temperature Distributions and the Operating Conditions in a Brown Coal Fired Boiler
• Evaluation of an Amplitude Sizing Anemometer and Application to a Pulverised Coal Burner
• Flame Visualization in Power Stations