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What Is Industrial Combustion
What Is Industrial Combustion
What Is Industrial Combustion
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Version no.: 2
Referee: Nick Syred
Date: 17-10-2000
Source: Author
General definition
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Industrial Fuels
An industrial fuel may be a regular fossil fuel such as coal, crude oil, or
natural gas. These may be processed from their raw as found state to
produce a wide variety of refined fuels such as blended pulverised coal,
desulphurised coal gas, Liquified Petroleum Gases (LPGs), liquid fuels ranging
from gasoline through to residual oils and so forth.
Alternatively the fuel may be derived from biomass material. Traditional
firewood is arguably the original fuel used by mankind. Alternatively fuels
may be derived from wastes to produce so-called Refuse Derived Fuelsor
RDFs.
Industrial Fuels are discussed in greater depth in associated Combustion Files
see below.
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Industrial Comburents
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In recent decades such solid fuel combustion modes, have given way, at least
in relatively large coal fired scale boilers, to pulverised coal burners, where
the coal is milled to a very fine powder typically 75% by mass<75m, and
passed through a burner in suspension in an atmosphere derived from the
coal dryer. This produces a turbulent diffusion flame, an example of which is
shown in figure 3. Arrays of such flames are used to fire boilers of various
designs.
Liquid fuels have been traditionally burned in various forms of pot burners,
but modern liquid fuel burners employ atomising devices to produced fine
droplets of the fuel which initially are evaporated in the throat of a burner
Conclusion
Glossary Terms
Fuel: A fuel is the generic term describing the material solid, liquid,
gaseous, emulsion etc. - which contains the carbon and/or hydrogen
consumed in the industrial combustion process.
Comburent: A comburent is the generic term describing the gaseous
mixture, which contains the oxygen used in the industrial combustion
process.
Keywords:
Combustion, flames, fuel, comburent, burners, industrial combustion
The information contained in this Combustion File is derived from the IFRF
Combustion Handbook (http://www.handbook.ifrf.net)
IFRF 2000