The majority of waste plastics currently produced are either landfilled or incinerated. Plastics do not readily degrade and toxic elements can be leached from the landfill. Combustion of waste plastics can generate environmentally hazardous air pollutants such as dioxins/furans, as well as undesirable carbon dioxide. Consequently, cost effective ways of recycling the increasing amounts of gener...

• To develop a prototype optical instrumentation system capable of measuring the distributions and fluctuations of temperature and soot concentration of pulverised coal flames. • To evaluate the performance of the system on a 0.5MWth combustion test facility at Innogy plc over a range of combustion conditions. • To establish quantitative relationships between the flame temperature and soot conc...

Although the contribution of pressurised oxy-fuel combustion technology for improving energy conversion efficiency and reducing SOx emissions is well recognised, mechanism sulfur transformation in initial pyrolysis step has not yet been elucidated because complexity process. Clarifying such scientific fundamentals overcoming technological challenges can effectively advance implementation realis...

The effects of chemical oxides and the surface area (SA) slags on initial reactivity alkali-activated materials (AAMs) are coupled. It is well known that slag in AAMs impacted by SA, however, a quantitative measure this effect was not provided previous studies. For proper understanding chemistry reaction kinetics AAMs, description SA's required. activated were monitored using isothermal calorim...