Multi-mode combustion facility for thermal treatment studies of wastes and biomass

This article describes newly built Multi-Mode Combustion Facility (MCF) used for investigating thermal destruction of industrial wastes and combustion of biomass. A flexible, refractory-lined combustion chamber consists of individual sections of various heights and diameter of 0.5  m . The MCF can b...

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Published in:Review of scientific instruments 2004-12, Vol.75 (12), p.5308-5314
Main Authors: Eldabbagh, Fadi, Kozinski, Janusz A., Bourassa, Michael, Farant, Jean-Pierre, Gangli, Peter, Groves, Michael, Rosen, Eric, Uloth, Vic, Hawari, Jalal, Hutny, Wes
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Language:English
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Summary:This article describes newly built Multi-Mode Combustion Facility (MCF) used for investigating thermal destruction of industrial wastes and combustion of biomass. A flexible, refractory-lined combustion chamber consists of individual sections of various heights and diameter of 0.5  m . The MCF can be used either as a fluidized bed combustor (FBC) to study the combustion of solid residues or as a single-burner furnace (SBF) to study cofiring of biomass and natural gas. The facility is designed such that the outer wall temperature should not exceed 327  K with the use of water-cooling system and refractory materials. The inner temperature of each section is independent of the rest of the sections and controlled individually. This arrangement allows for the combustion process to be carried out in a multizone manner called low–high–low (LHL) temperature approach. The LHL approach means that the waste/biomass is initially fed into a low temperature zone (
ISSN:0034-6748
1089-7623
DOI:10.1063/1.1821645