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Mornings: Lectures on the principles of combustion and pollutant formation (First day, classroom instruction until 3:00 pm, subsequent mornings until noon).
Afternoons: First day, starts at 3:30 pm, subsequent days at 1:30 pm. Laboratory and computer software demonstrations. Special workshops on specific topics, run by experts. Participants must choose which workshops they wish to attend since there is insufficient time to attend them all.
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| Day 1 | 8:00 - 8:30 | Introduction: Purpose of course; Organization; Participant requests. (Jost Wendt) |
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Topic 1: Fundamentals - Stoichiometry; Heat Balances, HHV and LHV; Furnace efficiency; Heat transfer, convection and radiation;Adiabadic flame temperatures; Equilibria. (Geoff Silcox) |
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| 10:30 - 12:00 | Topic 2: Pre-mixed Flames - Flame
speeds; Flammability limits; Combustion Kinetics; Explosions. (Doug
Smoot) |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 | Topic 3: Practical
Diffusion Flames - Flame aerodynamics; Swirl; Burner Design;
Sprays, Fame shapes, Matching flames to furnace load. (Eric Eddings) |
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| 3:30 - 5:00 | LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS: Impact of swirl on flame shape and NOx (BFR) - Single particle combustion - Ash deposition. (Larry Baxter)
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| Day 2 | 8:30 - 10:00 | Topic 4: Particle Reactions and Ash
Management - Coal and biomass combustion; Ignition, devolatilization,
char burnout/LOI; |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Topic 5: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Characteristic times and time scales; CFD for industrial combustion problems: Potential and limitations. (Phil Smith)
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| 1:30 - 5:00 | Workshops Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics -with Furnace Visualization (Phil Smith) Fouling, Slagging, and Corrosion (Larry Baxter) Gasification (Doug Smoot/Kevin Whitty) Mercury Control Technologies (Connie Senior) |
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| Day 3 | 8:30 - 10:00 | Topic 6: NOx and SOx - NOx formation and destruction mechanisms, principles behind low NOx combustion modifications. SO2/SO3 NOx control technologies. (Jost Wendt) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Topic 7: Particulate and Air Toxics - Soot, air toxics, mercury, particulate fines, trace metals. (Connie Senior) |
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| Applied Combustion Technology |
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