
Lean Combustion
Technology and Control
Description
Key Features
- Presents a comprehensive collection of lean burn technology across potential applications, allowing readers to compare and contrast similarities and differences
- Provides an extensive update on IC engines including compression ignition (diesel), spark ignition, and homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI)
- Includes an extensive revision to the Stability/Oscillations chapter
- Includes use of alternative fuels such as biogas and hydrogen for relevant technologies
- Covers new developments in lean combustion using high levels of pre-heat and heat recirculating burners, as well as the active control of lean combustion instabilities
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Brief Historical Perspective
- 3. Defining Lean Combustion
- 4. Regulatory Drivers for Lean Combustion Technology Development
- 5. Lean Combustion Applications and Technologies
- 6. Brief Highlights of the Chapters
2. Fundamentals of Lean Combustion
- 1. Combustion and Engine Performance
- 2. Burning in Flames
- 3. Autoignitive Burning
- 4. Recirculation of Heat From Burning and Burned Gas
- 5. Flame Stabilization
- 6. Conclusions
3. Highly Preheated Lean Combustion
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Moderate and Intense Low Oxygen Dilution Combustion
- 3. Elementary Processes in MILD Combustion
- 4. Process and Applications of MILD Combustion in Gas Turbines
- 5. Conclusion
4. Lean-Burn Internal Combustion Engines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fundamental Combustion Thermodynamics
- 3. Conventional and Advanced Spark-Ignition Engines
- 4. Extending the Lean Limit of Spark-Ignited Engine Operation
- 5. Conventional and Advanced Compression-Ignition Engines
5. Lean Combustion in Gas Turbines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. Lean Gas Turbine Combustion Strategies: Status and Needs
- 4. Summary
6. Lean Premixed Burners
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Principles of Natural Gas Variability
- 3. Stabilization Methods
- 4. Fuel Flexibility Considerations
- 5. Summary
7. Combustion Instabilities in Lean Premixed Systems
- 1. Overview and Motivation
- 2. Combustion Instability Fundamentals
- 3. Acoustics of Lean Combustion Systems
- 4. Coupling Mechanisms and Flame Oscillations
- 5. Control Strategies
Product details
- No. of pages: 280
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2016
- Published: July 1, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128045572
- eBook ISBN: 9780128005774
About the Editors
Derek Dunn-Rankin
Affiliations and Expertise
Peter Therkelsen
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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RichardRoche Tue Mar 03 2020
Excellent, to the point.
I have learned very much more than I knew.