Recent Advances in Solid Fuel Conversion Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3122
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational particle dynamics; sticking and spreading of droplets; particle deposition issues in a variety of engineering applications, from the ‘sky’ (turbomachinery) to the ‘ground’ (boilers/combustors); CFD modelling and uncertainty quantification; instrumentations for particle deposition
Interests: clean and sustainable energy; industrial decarbonization and energy efficiency technology with a focus on multi-scale energy process computational and CFD modelling
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Interests: thermoacoustic instability; coal combustion; coal slagging; porous media combustion; iron ore sintering; solar energy; molten salt CSP
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solid fuel conversion technologies, including coal and biomass, play an essential role in securing the world’s energy supply. Coal-fired power plants currently provide 35% of global electricity. In the short term, coal is still going to be one of the major energy sources, especially in developing countries. With growing concerns in environmental protection and global warming, there is an increased interest in advanced coal combustion technologies with low pollutant emissions (NOx, particulate matter, etc.), oxy-fuel coal combustion, the chemical looping combustion of coal, as well as advanced coal gasification technologies. In the long term, coal is going to be partially replaced by renewable energy, especially biomass, which may be considered carbon neutral. Through integrating with low carbon fuel conversion technologies (oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, etc.), firing biomass has the potential to achieve negative net CO2 emissions. Therefore, these advanced biomass conversion technologies are attractive approaches for the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and to help meet the stringent world carbon emission budgets. Researchers are contributing their efforts towards achieving flame stability, improving energy conversion efficiency, and retrofitting heat transfer and controlling pollutant emissions in order to make these advanced technologies technically feasible. Since biomass fuel may contain high amounts of inorganic matter, especially potassium and chlorine, ash-related issues (slagging, fouling, and corrosion) are believed to be one of the major operation issues for biomass combustion and gasification. Therefore, understanding and controlling ash-related issues is of great importance for these technologies.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in both experimental and numerical investigations of solid fuel conversion technologies, inviting original research papers as well as literature reviews. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):
- Coal combustion and biomass combustion;
- Low pollutant emissions;
- Advanced fuel conversion technologies (oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, gasification, etc.);
- Experimental and modelling of solid fuel conversion processes;
- Lab-scale, pilot-scale, and full-scale (industrial) investigations;
- Flame stability and radiation heat transfer;
- Slagging, fouling, and corrosion.
Dr. Xin Yang
Prof. Dr. Lin Ma
Prof. Dr. Hao Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solid fuel combustion
- oxy-fuel combustion
- chemical looping combustion
- pollutant emissions
- flame stability
- radiative heat transfer
- slagging, fouling, and ash deposition
- corrosion
- CFD modelling
