Boilers are among the most common heating equipment in commercial facilities, often consuming the majority of a facility’s fuel. The load on a boiler plant in a commercial facility constantly fluctuates depending on weather conditions, occupancy rate, and internal heat gains. Proper control of part-load operation can significantly affect energy use. Most boilers in medium-to-large commercial fa...

The design and dynamic characterization of a free piston compressor is presented in this paper. The free piston compressor is a proposed device that utilizes combustion to compress air into a high-pressure supply tank. The device is configured such that the transduction from thermal energy to stored energy, in the form of compressed gas, is efficient relative to other small-scale portable power...

This paper presents the experimental assessment of a free elastic-piston compressor (FEPC) equipped with a separated combustion chamber. The FEPC is a proposed device that utilizes combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel to compress air into a high-pressure supply tank, thus potentially serving as a portable power supply candidate for untethered pneumatic systems of human-scale power output. The desig...

laminar counterflow diffusion flames provide useful information about basic properties of non-premixed combustion. a lot of studies have been performed on h2/o2 counterflow. most of previous studies include undiluted or diluted systems of hydrogen (with co2 or n2) against an air flow under a variety of conditions such as strain rates, inlet temperature and pressure. the main purpose of this res...

We present analyses of three families of compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems: conventional CAES, in which the heat released during air compression is not stored and natural gas is combusted to provide heat during discharge; adiabatic CAES, in which the compression heat is stored; and CAES in which the compression heat is used to assist water electrolysis for hydrogen storage. The latte...

In an attempt to study ways for reducing NOx emissions from radiatively/conductively-stabilized combustors (RCSC) for pulverized coal, a comprehensive conjugate heat and mass transfer and reaction kinetics model of that combustor was developed. As compared with a much simpler three-reaction model, the radiation intensity distribution obtained by the new model shows a substantial decrease in the...

The paper shows a test results of single cylinder, direct injected, self ignited dual fuel engine. One has analysed a combustion parameters calculated on base of recorded indicator diagrams. The comparison included: the ignition delay period, the cylinder pressure, the rate of pressure rise, the average medium temperature, the heat release rate, the total combustion time and the indicated effic...

This work evaluates the suitability of iron aluminide coatings for use in high temperature fossil fuel combustion environments, such as boiler applications. The coatings are applied using High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) thermal spray techniques. Bulk Fe3Al coatings are known to exhibit excellent oxidation and sulfidation resistance at high temperatures, however, the behavior of HVOF-deposited Fe3...

Article history: Received 1 October 2006 Received in revised form 20May 2007 Accepted 20 June 2007 Co-combustion of chicken litter (CL) with coal was performed in a laboratory-scale fluidized bed combustor to investigate the effect of CL combustion on pollutant emissions. The emissions of major gaseous pollutants including CO, SO2, H2S and NO and temperature distribution along the combustor wer...

–Fast depletion of fossil fuels demands an urgent need to carryout research to find viable alternative fuels such as Hydrogen, LPG and CNG. The gaseous hydrocarbons seem to be best immediate option presently available[1]. The remarkable feature of gaseous fuels are the absence of mineral impurities, the consistency in quality and the convenience and efficient in use. LPG is used widely as a co-...