The John Zink Combustion Handbook
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Features
- Offers both a general reference on combustion and a detailed reference on industrial combustion for the chemical, hydrocarbon, petrochemical, and power generation industries
- Presents the basic theory from the relevant disciplines, including combustion, heat transfer, and fluid flow
- Explores specific equipment design issues and applications in the process and power generation industries
Summary
Despite the length of time it has been around, its importance, and vast amounts of research, combustion is still far from being completely understood. Industrial applications of combustion add environmental, cost, and fuel consumption issues to its fundamental complexity, and the process and power generation industries in particular present their own unique challenges
The John Zink Combustion Handbook is dedicated to improving that understanding and meeting those challenges. Under the leadership of Charles E. Baukal, Jr., top combustion engineers and technologists from the world-renowned John Zink Company have joined forces to bring you this landmark work— a synthesis of the multi-disciplinary background that will broaden your understanding, hone your skills, and further advance the art and science of industrial combustion.
Background—The fundamentals of thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid mechanics, and transport processes of combustion
Equipment—Design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
Applications—Duct burners, boiler burners, flares, thermal oxidizers
Table of Contents
GENERAL THEORY
INTRODUCTION, Charles E. Baukal, Jr.
FUNDAMENTALS Joseph Colannino and Charles E. Baukal, Jr.
General
Chemistry of Hydrocarbons
Flame Properties
Mass Transfer
HEAT TRANSFER Michael Henneke and Jay Karan
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
FLUID FLOW Michael Henneke and Randall McDermott
Fluid Properties
Incompressible Flow
Compressible Flow
Two-Phase Flow
FUEL Terry Dark and John Ackland
Gaseous Fuels
Liquid Fuels
Solid Fuels
POLLUTANT EMISSIONS Charles E. Baukal, Jr. and Joseph Colannino
NOx
Combustibles
SOx
Particulates
NOISE Wes Bussman and Jay Karan
Fundamentals of Sound
Industrial Noise Pollution
Mechnaisms of Industrial Combustion Equipment Noise
Noise Abatement Techniques
Analysis of Combustion Equipment Noise
APPLICATIONS
MODELING OF COMBUSTION SYSTEMS, Rajesh Rawat, Michael Henneke, and Wes Bussman
Overview
Control Volume Analysis
Mixing and Scaling Laws for Jet Flames
Modeling Detailed Chemistry
Applications
CFD MODELING Michael Henneke, Rajesh Rawat, and Jay Karan
Overview
Modeling Turbulent Flows
Preprocessing
Applications
COMBUSTION SAFETY, Terry Dark, and Charles E. Baukal, Jr.
Overview
Design Engineering
BURNER DESIGN Richard T. Waibel, Michael Claxton, and Randall McDermott
Fuel and Air Metering
Fuel and Air Mixing
Maintaining Ignition
Flame Shape Molding
Minimizing Emissions
Material Selection
Multi-Fuel Considerations
Maintenance Considerations
Mounting Considerations
COMBUSTION CONTROLS Jay Karan, Terry Dark, and Joseph Colannino
Fundamentals of Combustion Control
Primary Measurements
Fundamentals of FeedbackControl
LaPlace Transforms and the Transfer Function
Control Methods
Typical Control Schemes and Hierarchies
Tuning Control Loops, Practical Considerations
Burner Management
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Joseph Colannino
Goal of Experimentation
Deterministic and Stochastic Variables
Statistcally Cognizant Experimental Designs
Designs at Two Levels
Designs at Three or More Levels
Handling Fuel Blends and Mixtures
Pitfalls, Diagnostics, and Remedies
Integrating Theory and Empiricism
BURNER TESTING, Richard T. Waibel, Michael Claxton, and Jeffrey Lewallen
Combustor
Instrumentation
Troubleshooting
Selection of Test Fuels
FLARES Robert Schwartz, Jeffrey White, and Wes Bussman
Flare Systems
Factors Influencing Flare Design
Flare Design Considerations
Flare Equipment
Flare Combustion Products
THERMAL OXIDIZERS Paul Melton
Introduction
Combustion Basics
Basic System Configurations
System Building Blocks
Emissions Issues
Other
APPENDICES
Appendix A – Physical Properties of Materials
Appendix B – Properties of Gases and Liquids
Appendix C – Common Conversions
Editorial Reviews
“This compilation of collaboratively authored chapters gathers the dispersed literature on combustion and related areas. It focuses on chemical, petroleum, and power generation industries. By offering chapters on fundamentals (turbulent flow, heat transfer, chemical kinetics, and more) and equipment design/application (coverage including burners, heaters, flares, and thermal oxidizers), this work make the important link between theory and application in industry. Timely topics covered include computational fluid dynamics, pollution emission, and design of experiments. …a great value for the in-depth coverage of this sometimes overlooked subject. Recommended.”
— CHOICE
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