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Principles, Design and Operation
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By
Peter Mullinger, Associate Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Barrie Jenkins, Consulting Engineer, High Wycombe, Bucks, UK
Description
Industrial and Process Furnaces provides a comprehensive reference to all aspects of furnace operation and design, with coverage of key
topics that plant and process engineers and operators need to understand, including the combustion process and its control, furnace fuels,
efficiency, burner design and selection, aerodynamics, heat release profiles, furnace atmosphere, safety and emissions.
* Helps to
understand complex heat and mass transfer and combustion problems
* Outlines the key elements of furnace theory for optimum design
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Shows how to achieve best possible furnace operation
* Practical, stepped approach breaks topics down to their constituent parts for
clarity and easier solution
* Practical examples further assist in the analysis of real-world problems
Developed by authors with experience
of a wide range of industrial applications, this book is written for chemical and process engineers, mechanical, design and combustion
engineers and students. It is ideal for both task-based problem solving and more detailed analysis work.
Audience
Professional engineers (chemical, mechanical, power, process, HVAC, environmental), designers, production staff who use heat and combustion
as part of a process
Advanced students of Chemical, Mechanical and Powever Engineering (as a reference) dealing with energy conversion/thermal
engineering.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
What is a furnace? Where are they used?
Brief descriptions of a few different furnaces
Brief
history of furnaces and furnace design
Chapter 2 The Combustion Process
Combustion efficiency, basic chemistry of combustion
and combustion calculations
The physics of combustion; The influence of combustion on efficiency; The significance of mixing and fuel
type; Definitions of excess air, primary, secondary, tertiary air, etc.
Chapter 3 Fuels for furnaces
Oil, Nat gas,
Syngas COG, BFG, Refinery gas,
The effect fuel properties on furnace performance, CV, flammability limits
Chapter 4 Furnace
Heat Transfer
Conduction, steady state and transient conduction; Convection; Radiation; Flame emissivity; Gas emissivity; Soot
emissivity;
Flux geometry; Electrical heating, induction, arc and molten salt
Chapter 5 Furnace burners
Burners - pre-mix,
turbulent jet, gas, oil, pulverised coal
Importance of fuel air mixing, furnace aerodynamics; Influence of burner design on flame heat
release profiles, furnace atmosphere
Combustion and furnace scale-up; Combustion noise
Chapter 6 Combustion and Heat Transfer
Modelling
Principles of modelling, physical modelling - air and water, mathematical modelling -combustion, heat transfer, aerodynamics,
application to burners and furnaces.
Chapter 7 Fuel handling systems
The essential requirements of fuel handing systems
for gas, oil, pulverised coal
Chapter 8 Furnace Control and Safety
Temperature measurement, air and fuel flow measurement,
excess air measurement, control of furnace performance, burner management, explosion prevention, explosion mitigation
Chapter
9 Furnace Efficiency
Mass and energy balances, concepts of furnace theoretical efficiency, furnace performance data, high and
low grade heat, pinch point, heat losses (in product in flue gas, from walls, through openings) heat recovery from flue gas and from
the product.
On site measurements, benchmarking, identifying opportunities for improvement.
Chapter 10 Emissions and Environmental
Impact
CO, NOx, SOx, H2S, particulate (from combustion, process), VOCs, dioxins & furans, heavy metal emissions.
Chapter
11 Furnace Construction and Materials
Differential thermal expansion, refractory choice, high temperature metals, etc
Chapter
12 The Design Process
Sizing, fuel choice, heat release rate, determining optimum heat transfer profiles, number of burners,
choice of heat recovery systems, determining product transport and residence time, choice of furnace atmosphere, selection of control
system, designing for safety, etc.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 544 pages, publication date: MAR-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8692-1
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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