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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Factors affecting coal particle ignition under oxyfuel combustion atmospheres
In oxyfuel power plants, combustion air will be replaced by an O2/CO2 mixture, with safe O2 content being critical. This paper was the first to establish that ignition patterns are similar for air and O2/CO2 mixtures with 30-35% v/v O2 for most coals. This provides essential knowledge for avoiding coal mill explosions. This was funded by BCURA (http://www.bcura.org/Final%20Projects/index.html, Grant B75) with industrial support from Gerry Hesselmann, Mitsui Babcock Energy (now Doosan Babcock Energy). It provides the foundation for follow-on collaboration with US DOE NIOSH on coal ignition testing, and within £1.7M E.ON/EPof SRC consortium (EP/G062153/1, Robin Irons, E.ON, email available).
