Synthetic fuel aromaticity and staged combustion. First quarterly technical progress report, September 23-December 31, 1980

Technical Report · Wed Jan 28 04:00:00 EST 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6671414· OSTI ID:6671414

Levy, Arthur; Longanbach, James R.; Chan, Lisa K.

Synthetic liquid fuels, otherwise referred to as synfuels or coal-derived liquids, are probably best characterized from a combustion-environmental point of view as low in hydrogen, low in sulfur, high in nitrogen, and high in aromatics. As a consequence two of the more critical problems in synfuel combustion are NO/sub x/ formation and soot formation (and polycyclic organic matter). This program is directed to these two issues. At first hand the solutions to burning synfuels high in aromatics and fuel-bound nitrogen are diametrically opposed, i.e., high temperature and excess air keep soot levels down, low temperatures and vitiated air keep nitrogen oxide levels down. Staged combustion however offers a logical solution to the above. This program separates and analyzes the synfuel combustion problem via its component parts and then puts them together again phenomenologically via the stage combustion process.

• Research Organization: Battelle Columbus Labs., OH (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC22-80PC30302
• OSTI ID: 6671414
• Report Number(s): DOE/PC/30302-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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