ESET-212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Flue Gas, Bagasse, Soot
Document Summary
Fuels commonly used for combustion in boilers include: coal, fuel oil, and natural gas. Fuels commonly used to generate steam are: fossil fuels. Use of other fuels eliminates the need for other means of disposal. Other fuels used are garbage, bio mass, sawdust, wood chips, bagasse (residue of sugarcane), pulverized coffee, industrial waste, and refuse. Combustion of a fuel is required to generate the heat necessary to produce steam in a boiler. Combustion accessories and fuel-burning equipment are designed to store, transport, and bum fuel safely and efficiently. The compositions in coal are (no cash): nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, ash, sulfur, hydrogen, volatile matters, moisture. C-h is the basic chemical composition of organic maters like methane, ethane, propane, butane. Volatile matters are matters that easily evaporate at normal temperatures. High volatile is dangerous to store because it is very easy to set the stored coal on fire then cause accidence. Moisture in the coal will combine with sulfur generating so2.
