recently, many countries have paid substantial attention to power generation from biomass gasification, particularly through small-scale plants. a number of power plant models have been suggested and analyzed; however, certainly, desirable configurations have not been identified yet. moreover, their performances are ordinarily difficult to compare, especially owing to the fact that working hypo...

Combustion system development in power generation is discussed ranging from the pre-environmental era in which the objectives were complete combustion with a minimum of excess air and the capability of scale up to increased boiler unit performances, through the environmental era (1970–), in which reduction of combustion generated pollution was gaining increasing importance, to the present and n...

Title of dissertation: NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF LOW-PRESSURE EXPLOSIVE COMBUSTION IN COMPARTMENT FIRES Hu Zhixin Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor Arnaud Trouvé Department of Mechanical Engineering A filtered progress variable approach is adopted for large eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent deflagrations. The deflagration model is coupled with a nonpremixed combusti...

In the present work, the aqueous ammonia-based post-combustion CO2 capture (PCC) process is simulated using the rate-based model in Aspen Plus, by which the method of sizing column heights is revealed. The heights of the staged CO2 absorbers and the NH3 absorber are determined as 5 m, 6 m, and 6 m; in addition, the heights of the CO2 and NH3 strippers are 12 m and 6 m, respectively. It is well ...