The Relationship of Stoker Burnout to the Properties of Residue

A reliable relationship of stoker performance to burnout is one which engineers and scientists will be struggling with for a fairly lengthy period of time. At the present state of the art, a minimum of knowledge is available, and it is impossible to develop any numer­ ical applications for a specific relationship. One of the most spurious shortcomings in the development of a burnout relationship is the unanimous disagreement on what basis the particular interaction should be defined. The interaction or relationship which is desired may be thermodynamic, biological, or chem­ ical in nature with all systems having equal validity. To complicate matters even more, a relation­ ship could be developed using air quality criteria rather than incinerator residue qUality. Although the relationship of air quality criteria is very important, and a definition of this quality is much closer to reality than is one for residue quality, it is probably very unfair to equate the two qualities at this time. Defmitely the future problems relating water and land use, planning and zoning, and poten­ tial pollution, to residue quality must be considered in depth alongside of an air quality-residue quality relationship. THERMODYNAMIC