A major update of a bestseller, this book provides an up-to-date look at how to enhance combustion with oxygen. This second edition has more than doubled in size, with 19 new chapters and extensive updates. It describes many applications, including power generation, fluidized bed combustion, chemicals and petrochemicals, and diesel engines. The book also covers more fundamentals, such as heat transfer, noise, CFD modeling, burner design, and burner testing. Written by experts in academia and industry, it integrates fundamentals principles, applications, and equipment design in one volume.
A major update of a bestseller, this book provides an up-to-date look at how to enhance combustion with oxygen. This second edition has more than doubled in size, with 19 new chapters and extensive updates. It describes many applications, including power generation, fluidized bed combustion, chemicals and petrochemicals, and diesel engines. The book also covers more fundamentals, such as heat transfer, noise, CFD modeling, burner design, and burner testing. Written by experts in academia and industry, it integrates fundamentals principles, applications, and equipment design in one volume.
Charles E. Baukal, Jr., Ph.D., PE, BCEE, QEP, is the director of the John Zink Institute for the John Zink Company, LLC (Tulsa, Oklahoma), where he has been since 1998. He previously worked for 13 years at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) in the areas of oxygen-enhanced combustion and rapid gas quenching in the ferrous and nonferrous metals, minerals, and waste incineration industries. He has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of industrial combustion, pollution control, and heat transfer and has authored more than 150 publications in those areas. Dr. Baukal has served as an adjunct instructor for Oral Roberts University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa, and the University of Utah. He is the author or editor of thirteen books in the field of industrial combustion.
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Introduction. Fundamentals. Oxygen Production. Noncryogenic Oxygen Production. Potential Hybrid Methods for Oxygen Production. Safety Overview. Cleaning for Oxygen Systems. Fuels. Fluid Flow. Heat Transfer. Noise. Flame Impingement. Pollution Emissions. CFD Modeling of Oxygen-Enhanced Combustion. Soot Formation in Oxygen-Enhanced Combustion. Laser Diagnostics for Oxygen-Enhanced Combustion. Equipment Design. Burner Design. Oxyfuel and Oxygen-Enhanced Burner Testing. Flameless Oxyfuel Combustion and Its Applications. Iron Production. Ferrous Metals. Nonferrous Metals. Glass. Oxygen Combustion in Cement Production. Thermal Oxidation. Coal-Fired Oxy-Fuel Technology for Carbon Capture and Storage. Oxy-Fuel Fluidized Bed Combustion. Oxygen Enrichment in Sulfur Recovery. Diesel Engines. Appendix. Index.
