Chemical-Looping Combustion (CLC) is an emerging technology for CO2 capture because separation of this gas from the other flue gas components is inherently to the process and thus no energy is expended for the separation. For its use with coal as fuel in power plants, a process integrated by coal gasification and CLC would have important advantages for CO2 capture. This paper presents the combu...

Ilmenite (FeTiO3) is an important mineral, formed in igneous and metamorphic rocks, and is the main feedstock for the titanium industry. Ilmenite is also an attractive and inexpensive oxygen carrier for chemical-looping combustion (CLC), one of the most promising technologies to accomplish CO2 capture in power plants [1]. The technique uses solid metal oxides as an oxygen carrier, which transfe...

nanocrystalline zro2 with particle size of about 38 nm was directly synthesized by sol-gel auto-combustion method. the overall process involved three steps: formation of homogeneous sol at 50-55°c; formation of dried gel at 110°c, and combustion of the dried gel at 400°c. experiments revealed that zro2 dried gel derived from glycine (fuel) and nitrate sol exhibited self propagating combustion a...

Recent advances in automation of systematically reduced mechanisms are reported here with the aim to accelerate the development process. A computer algorithm has been developed enabling fast generation and testing of reduced chemistry. This algorithm has been used to develop various reduced mechanisms of methane-air combustion for modelling of turbulent combustion. A 10-step reduced chemistry h...

Description in terms of physicochemistry and heat and mass transfer of the combustion front propagation in a reactive porous medium remains a challenge to science. The literature about this subject distinguishes two types of problems. The first considers only combustion of the gas phase inside an inert solid porous medium. In the second type, the solid phase reacts with the gas phase; Chemical ...

Since oxy-combustion is a relatively new technology, many problems associated with the behavior of coal in this novel combustion process still need to be solved. In particular, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the behavior of toxic trace elements, and there is a need to determine whether trace element distribution among the by-products and emissions to the environment, is comparable with ...

in this paper the changes in the heat capacity of cooling towers has been investigated as a result of injecting combustion products of boilers. in the tower, the air is re-heated through mixing with hot flue gas after passing through the heat exchangers. as a result of this process, the draft of the cooling tower is increased. the additional produced draft depends on the ambient temperature and...

Combustion models often appear in forms that are customized for specific applications. This process of customization produces modeling approaches that tend to be very different from one another in terms of cost, accuracy, and applicability. For example, many combustion models have been developed to describe either the asymptotic premixed or the asymptotic non-premixed combustion limit. These id...

gas motion within the cylinder is one of the major factors that control the combustion process in spark ignition engine. it also has significant impact on heat transfer. both the bulk gas motion and the turbulence characteristics of the flow are important and governing the overall behavior of the flow. an arrangement for obtaining a stratified charge, using port injection, is proposed for a cur...

This paper presents a computational algorithm to predict highly-transient ame behavior in counter ow situations. The rst objective of the paper is to extend the transient counter ow problem to incorporate some gasdynamic compressibility e ects, yet retain the desirable similarity structure. By relaxing assumptions in earlier formulations, the computational algorithms can deliver high accuracy e...