Experience in preparing fuel for combustion
The key phase seems to be that wood is the ORIGINAL FUEL. Certainly as man discovered fire, it was the most obvious as well as abundantly available fuel and it burned very well because man was smart enough to select the dry wood once he understood the basics of combustion. As the needs started to go beyond the most elementary, designs for burning ideal fuels were pretty well perfected, however, the burning of less ideal fuels still remain a challenge. To provide plant steam requirements by burning waste that must be disposed of anyway can reduce operating cost considerably. For most of us involved in producing steam, the experience we have with fuels such as bark, wood waste, sludge, and miscellaneous forms of solid combustible waste material, are a result of burning these fuels in an existing boiler supposedly designed for wood waste or possibly a combination of wood and other fuels such as coal, oil, or gas. For a supplier of fuel preparation systems, the typical application involves the sizing, cleaning, and drying of wood waste, and sludge from a pulp and/or paper mill. Other forms of combustible waste are dealt with occasionally and after proper preparation fired in the combustion system for the purpose of generating hot gas and/or steam for the plant process.
- OSTI ID:
- 95628
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9505174-; TRN: 95:006335-0020
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Council of Industrial Boiler Owners (CIBO) fuels options conference, Atlanta, GA (United States), 9-10 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Fuels options conference; PB: 238 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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