Accurate prediction of pollutant emissions from turbulent combustion around complex geometries is of great practical interest. Here, an industrial furnace with rich-burn/quick-quench/lean-burn combustion for NOx reduction is simulated. Large eddy simulation (LES) is employed as the simulation tool since it outperforms Reynolds-Averaged-Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations in capturing large-scale u...

The effects of climate on wildland fire confronts society across a range of different ecosystems. Water and temperature affect the combustion dynamics, irrespective of whether those are associated with carbon fueled motors or ecosystems, but through different chemical, physical, and biological processes. We use an ecosystem combustion equation developed with the physical chemistry of atmospheri...

This project was commissioned by the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME) and the American Plastics Council (APC) to evaluate the operational and environmental impacts associated with the co-combustion of automotive shredder residue (ASR) with municipal solid waste (MSW) in a modem, commercial waste-to-energy plant. This paper describes the shredding and combustion facilities ...

Combustion hazards associated with liquid fuels are often categorized in terms of the fuel’s flashpoint. However, in hazard scenarios where high-flashpoint fuel is released under pressure, jet breakup and aerosol formation will result. In these cases, this simplistic method of combustion hazard classification may be not sufficient and then alternative approaches are required. As for gases and d...

The types of coal are multiplex in domestic small and medium sized boilers, and with unstable ingredients, the method of maintaining the amount of wind and coal supply in a fixed proportion of the wind adjustment does not always ensure the best economical boiler combustion process, the key of optimizing combustion is to modify reasonable proportion of wind and coal online. In this paper, a kind...

A novel method for real-time moisture level monitoring of the solid biomass fuel in grate combustion is presented. The measurement principle is based on temperature sensor information from both flame and a fuel bed. Based on the combustion theory and data analysis, selected features have been extracted from the fused sensor information and estimate of the fuel quality is then made continuously ...

In this paper we numerically study the properties and stability of the travelling combustion waves in Zeldovich-Liñán model in the adiabatic limit in one-dimension. The structure and the properties of the combustion waves are found to be different for the fast and slow recombination regimes. The dependence of flame speed on the parameters of the model are studied in detail. The results are comp...

Instabilities of motions in a combustion chamber are consequences of the coupled dynamics of combustion processes and of the flow in the chamber. The extreme complexities of the problem always require approximations of various sorts to make progress in understanding the mechanisms and behavior of combustion instabilities. This paper covers recent progress in the subject, mainly summarizing effo...

This paper presents calculations of a pulverized coal flame and a coal-fired utility boiler with advanced combustion technologies. A combustion model based on an extended Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) combined with finite rate chemistry is described and some applications are shown. This model can be regarded as an extension of the previously used Eddy Breakup model (EBU) where infinite fast ch...

In this paper, a combustion analysis of a compression ignition (CI) engine operating with biodiesel blends has been experimentally investigated to examine the effects of biodiesel on the combustion process and the characteristics of the engine noise produced by the combustion process. The experiment with different loads and speeds was conducted on a four-cylinder, four-stroke, direct injection ...