Preliminary studies of used fuel generated in the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative have indicated that current used fuel transport casks may be insufficient for the transportation of said fuel. This work considers transport of three 5-year-cooled oxide Advanced Burner Reactor used fuel assemblies with a burn-up of 160 MWD/kg. A transport cask designed to carry these asse...

For industrial applications, we propose a concept of clean and efficient combustion through burning syngas on an impinging burner. We performed experimental measurements of particle image velocimetry, OH radical (OH*) chemiluminescence, flame temperature, and CO emission to examine the fuel mixing and reaction of premixed impinging flames of CH4/syngas/air with H2/CO in varied proportions. The ...

In planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF), naphthalenes are commonly used as tracers for diesel-like fuels and fuel surrogates. Previously, such a technique was used to visualize the air–fuel mixing in a mesoscale ( 10 cm device volume) burner prototype running on dodecane as a single-component JP-8 surrogate. For quantification of this technique, the influence of temperature, oxygen quenchin...

This study suggests the equimolar mixture of Natural Gas (100% CH4) and Synthesis Gas (40% H2 + 40% CO + 20% CO2) as an alternative to reduce hydrocarbons consumption and reduce pollutant emissions. As a key parameter to characterize this combustible mixture, the laminar burning velocity was studied based on numerical simulations and experimental measurements in fl ames generated using a contou...

This work describes a laboratory method to synthesize aerosols with properties similar to those emitted by ocean going ships. In this method, an oxy-hydrogen flame burner nebulizes and combusts heavy fuel oil (HFO). The oil was fed to the burner via a syringe pump at a maximum rate of 15 ml/h. Adjusting the feed temperature of the oil and the use of a quenching ring in the burner, it is possibl...

Sorbent materials that allow for high-temperature, regenerative desulfurization of fuel gas streams for the anode of a solid oxide fuel cell have been developed. Reversible adsorption of H2S on cerium and lanthanum oxide surfaces is demonstrated over many cycles at temperatures as high as 800 degrees C, on both fresh or presulfided sorbents, and at very high space velocities. The adsorption and...

This paper discusses the design and development of moderate and intense low oxygen dilution (MILD) combustion burners, including details of the computational fluid dynamics process, step-by-step from designing the model until post-processing. A 40 mm diameter bluff-body burner was used as the flame stabilizer. The fuel nozzle was placed in the center with a diameter of 1mm and an annular air no...

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