| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L68292/01 |
| Title: |
THE COMBUSTION OF GASES IN FLUIDISED BEDS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Hayhurst, Professor A |
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Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1997 |
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30 September 2000 |
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143,430
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When a gaseous fuel burns with air in a fluidised bed, combustion is inhibited and often occurs above the bed, rather than within the bed or at the bed's distributor. In fact, the behaviour is poorly understood and the effects of all the independant variables have never been studied systematically. This work aims to rectify the situation and so arrive at an improved understanding of how combustion occurs in the presence of a wide variety of fluidised solids (including catalysts) and with either diffusion or premixed flames. This is relevant to the industrial combustion and gasification of coal, the burning of refuse and also the chemical reduction of metallic ores in fluidised beds. The production of the pollutants NOX and SOX is also important, especially from fuels containing nitrogen or sulphur. One major aim is to formulate and test mathemetical models of how gaseous fuels burn with air in fluidised beds involving either premixed or diffusion flames. A Project Studentship is requested.
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