Development of Physical and ,Mathematical Models of Incinerators, Part II: Initial Testing of a Real System

Calculations of total reactor size have been made for the over bed combustion region of an incinerator, for a given area firing rate, assuming a variation in the completeness of reaction (conversion) "in the stirred section. As conversion increases, the overall reactor size drops to a minimum at 85 percen t con­ version and then rises again. At this minimum, the overbed heigh t required was calculated at 4 ft, which was found to be in rough agreement with measure­ ments made on a test incinerator. The program developed is simple and unsophisticated, but this initial order-of-magnitude agreement lends encourage­ ment to the view that incinerators are amenable to mathematical analysis and theoretical prediction and that such an approach will increasingly provide the basis for incinerator design in the future.