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Thermal Utilization of Fuels
This special issue belongs to the section “Energy Science and Technology“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to bring together information from experts wishing to share results on common problems of thermal conversion. The main content will be sharing the results from operational issues in support of commercial fluidized bed conversion (FBC) and other thermal conversion activities with emphasized research.
FBC technology is particularly suitable for various Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage solutions (CCUS) solutions. FBC is quite suitable for combustion using pure oxygen (oxyfuel combustion), chemical looping combustion (CLC), and calcium-looping CO2 separation (Ca-L). All of these technologies are based on gas–solid reaction conducted under severe conditions for solids, such as high temperatures. Continuous solid circulation between two (or more) reactors with heat removal from at least one reactor is required for CLC and Ca-L.
Prof. Dagmar Juchelková
Prof. Malgorzata Kacprzak
Prof. Helena Raclavska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- New types of FBC, chemical looping cycle conversion (CLCC), new as well as traditional gasification systems
- Solids attrition and fragmentation
- CO2 emissions, efficiency, CO2-neutral processes (e.g., wastes/biomass)
- NOx and N2O formation and reduction
- Alternative fuels, biomass, waste utilization, and specifics
- Sorbent reactivity and sulphur capture mechanisms
- Bed sintering/agglomeration problems
- Ash utilization
- Extension of traditional topic areas whose range of validity exceeded in the new applications
- Load-change ability of large-scale coal-fired FB power plants in content of no coal utilization strategy
- Ultralow emission control on FBC technology, not only in power generation with fossil fuel, biomass, and waste utilization, but also in iron and metallurgy industry processing
- Modeling of gas/solid flows
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Published Papers
Appl. Sci. - ISSN 2076-3417