Fuel Property Estimation and Combustion Process Characterization

Fuel Property Estimation and Combustion Process Characterization is a thorough tool book, which provides readers with the most up-to-date, valuable methodologies to efficiently and cost-effectively attain useful properties of all types of fuels and achieve combustion process characterizations for more efficient design and better operation. Through extensive experience in fuels and combustion, Kiang has developed equations and methodologies that can readily obtain reasonable properties for all types of fuels (including wastes and biomass), which enable him to provide guidance for designers and operators in the combustion field, in order to ensure the design, operation, and diagnostics of all types of combustion systems are of the highest quality and run at optimum efficiency.

Written for professionals and researchers in the renewable energy, combustion, chemical, and mechanical engineering fields, the information in this book will equip readers with detailed guidance on how to reliably obtain properties of fuels quickly for the design, operation and diagnostics of combustion systems to achieve highly efficient combustion processes.

• Presents models for quick estimation of fuel properties without going through elaborate, costly and time consuming sampling and laboratory testing
• Offers methodologies to determine combustion process characteristics for designing and deploying combustion systems
• Examines the fundamentals of combustion applied to energy systems, including thermodynamics of traditional and alternative fuels combustion
• Presents a fuel property database for over 1400 fuels
• Includes descriptive application of big data technology, using dual properties analysis as an example
• Provides specific technical solutions for combustion, fuels and waste processing

Thermal energy engineers, researchers, academics and graduates specializing in combustion, those involved in the design, operation and diagnostics of combustion systems, boiler designers and manufacturers, alternative fuel system designers. Engineering professionals and researchers, both in academia and industry R&D, designing, planning and operating bioenergy and waste to energy systems

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Basic Properties of Fuels, Biomass, Wastes, bio sludge and Biocarbons

2.1 Fuel Properties

2.2 Heat Of Combustion

2.3 Proximity Analysis

2.5 Ultimate Analysis

2.6 Properties to be Predicted

3.1 Organics

3.2 Biomass

3.3 Biocarbons

4.1 Calculation of True Heat of Combustion

4.2 The Effect of Moisture Contents in Heat of Combustion Determination

4.3 Higher Heating Values and Lower Heating Values

4.4 Composition Ratios

4.5 Oxygen Demand of Fuels

4.6 The Uniqueness of Heat of Combustion

5.1 Existing Mathematical Models Based on the Ultimate Analysis

5.2 The Significance of Prediction Models 101 and 102

5.3 Validation Method

5.4 Model Statistics and Validation

5.5 Recommended Choice of Models

5.6 How to Use these Models

5.7 Sample Calculations

6.1 Estimation Models from Regression Analysis

6.2 Estimation Models from Heating Values of Components

6.3 How to Use these Models

6.4 Sample Calculation

7.1 Six Components Estimation Models

7.2 Three Components Estimation Models

7.3 How to Use these Models

7.4 Sample Calculations

8.1 Products of Complete Combustion

8.2 Enthalpy Contents of Combustion Products

8.3 Mass Balance Calculation for Combustion Process

8.4 Energy Balance Calculation for Combustion Process

9.1 Estimation of Free Halogen Formation from the Combustion of Halogenated Fuels

9.2 Estimate the Conversion of SO2 to SO3 in Combustion Process with Sulphur in the Fuel

9.3 Estimation of Nitrogen Oxides Formation from Combustion Process

9.4 Dioxin Formation during Combustion

9.5 Estimation of Product of Incomplete Combustion from Combustion Process

9.6 Estimate Dew Points of Water Vapour and Acids In Combustion Products

10.1 Fundamentals of Combustion Thermodynamics

10.2 Liquid Fuel Combustion Kinetics

10.3 Solid Fuel Combustion Kinetics

10.4 General Combustion and Energy Systems

10.5 Combustion Control Consideration

10.6 Liquid Waste Storage and Feeding Consideration

10.7 System Design Schemes for Bio Sludge Drying

10.8 General Combustion Process Emission Control systems

10.9 Controlling Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions

10.10 Controlling Dioxin Emissions