Abstract: Combustion efficiency and flue-gas drying of solid fuels are analyzed. A simple, universal arithmetic expression for combustion efficiency is developed. This expression involves four primary ...

Abstract: A method used to measure and validate the temperature field in an experimental downdraft biomass gasifier and reformulate the discrete test data into continuous mathematical functions is described. ...

Abstract: A comprehensive equation to determine the rate of local entropy generation in multicomponent, reacting, laminar fluid flow involving heat and mass transfer is formulated based on species-average ...

Abstract: Capillary instability of a liquid film on a wire in another fluid (gas or liquid) is investigated. The liquid film is found to be unstable whenever the wavelength of the surface disturbance ...

Abstract: A system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from combustion power plants is described. Unlike earlier proposals based on flue gas treatment, the problem is addressed prior to combustion by ...

Abstract: Thermodynamic cycle analyses of biomass gasifier-based electric power stations at two scales, nominally 5 and 20 MWe (net electric power output), were performed to assess process performance and ...