carbon capture and storage (ccs) systems have relevant energy consumption associated with the co2 capture process. it causes an energy efficiency reduction that diminishes the economic interests and increases the technical uncertainty of these systems. with the objective of improving the system perform-ance and reducing thermodynamic inefficiencies, the exergy analysis has been traditionally ap...

Oxy-fuel combustion is recognized one of the most promising available technologies that zero emission accomplishment may be in the offing. With coal burned under the pressure of 6MPa and oxygenenriched conditions, the high temperature and high pressure gaseous combustion product is composed of 95% CO2 and water-vapor, with the rest of O2, N2 and so on. However, once lauded as classic approach o...

Victorian lignites (brown coals) in Australia have long been the mainstay of the Victorian economy, providing low-cost electricity to the state. In order to secure energy supplies for the future and to reduce the environmental impacts of power generation using the lignites, the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Clean Power from Lignite is developing an Advanced Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Com...

In recent years, a large number of linear and nonlinear laser-based diagnostic techniques for non-intrusive measurements of species concentrations, temperatures, and gas velocities in a wide pressure and temperature range with high temporal and spatial resolution were developed and have become extremely valuable tools to study many aspects of combustion. Nonlinear laser spectroscopic techniques...