Combustion From Basics to Applications

by Lackner, Maximilian; Palotá; s, Á; rpá; d; Winter, Franz

• ISBN13: 9783527333769
• ISBN10: 3527333762
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-10-14
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Combustion, the process of burning, is defined as a chemical reaction between a combustible reactant (the fuel) and an oxidizing agent (such as air) in order to produce heat and in most cases light while new chemical species (e.g., flue gas components) are formed. This book covers a gap on the market by providing a concise introduction to combustion. Most of the other books currently available are targeted towards the experienced users and contain too many details and/or contain knowledge at a fairly high level. This book provides a brief and clear overview of the combustion basics, suitable for beginners and then focuses on practical aspects, rather than theory, illustrated by a number of industrial applications as examples. The content is aimed to provide a general understanding of the various concepts, techniques and equipment for students at all level as well as practitioners with little or no prior experience in the field.

The authors are all international experts in the field of combustion technology and adopt here a clear didactic style with many practical examples to cover the most common solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. The associated environmental impacts are also discussed so that readers can develop an understanding of the major issues and the options available for more sustainable combustion processes.

With a foreword by Katharina Kohse-Hoinghaus

Author Biography

Maximilian Lackner is lecturer at Vienna University of Technology since 2005. He studied Technical Chemistry at the same university, where he also earned his PhD degree and completed his habilitation. He also obtained a Global Executive MBA from LIMAK University in Linz, Austria. Between 2004 and 2011 he has held several senior positions in the petrochemical industry in Europe and Asia. He has founded two companies and is a member of the advisory board of the VDI and an advisor to the US Department of Energy.

?rp?d B. Palot?s is the director of the Institute of Energy and Quality Affairs, Hungary, as well as the head of the Department of Combustion Technology at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He obtained MSc degrees in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Miskolc in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. After his PhD studies at the University of Miskolc, he spent years as postdoctoral associate and visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Utah where he continued his research on soot characterization as well as in the field of additives to reduce soot emission from aviation fuel sources.

Franz Winter is professor of Chemical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He is group leader and head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Chemical Engineering at High Temperatures at the Vienna University of Technology. He obtained his academic degrees from the Vienna University of Technology and has specialized on combustion and high temperature reaction kinetics. He has authored more than 300 scientific publications. He is chairman and reviewer on various scientific and technical advisory boards and an active member of the Combustion Institute.

Table of Contents

HISTORY OF COMBUSTION
PHENOMOMENOLOGY OF COMBUSTION, PYROLYSIS AND GASIFICATION
Ignition
Heat-, Mass-, and Momentum Transport and Balance
Basic Calculations
Elementary Reactions, Developing the Set of Elementary Reactions, Radicals
Modelling (Kinetics, CFD, etc.)
FUELS
Fuel Characterization
Gaseous Fuels
Liquid Fuels
Solid Fuels
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF COMBUSTION
Pollutants: Formation, Impact, etc.
Soot, Particles
Sox
Nox
Heavy Metals
CO, Hydrocarbons/VOC
Dioxins, Furans, etc.
Combustion Residues and By-Products incl. Ash
Combustion and Climate Change
MEASUREMENT METHODS (LASER, FT-IR, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY, ULTIMATE ANALYSIS, HEAVY METALS)
APPLICATIONS
Burners (incl. Flares)
Industrial Boilers (PC, FBC, CFB, Grate Fired Furnaces, etc.)
Small Scale Furnaces (Domestic Combustion Appliances)
Turbines (IGCC, Gas Turbines, etc.)
Internal Combustion Engines
Industrial Technologies: Waste, Glass Industry, Cement Industry, Metallurgy, Petrochemical Industry, etc.
New Technologies
Gasification, Pyrolysis
Carbon Capture and Storage
SAFETY AND COMBUSTION
Fires
Explosions
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
INDEX