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Gasoline for vehicles would be increased, too. There were not enough pleasure cars and business trucks and farm implements in all of Europe and Asia to bum the 2,600,000 tons of automobile gasoline produced in the year before the Krauch Plan what would be done with Krauch s first-year output of 4,000,000 tons What would be done with the target production of 830,000 tons of lubricating oils And the increase in heating fuels, from 3,500,000 tons to 4,000,000, would do a lot of cooking. 

PROPERTIES OF HEATING FUELS FROM MODERATELY HYDROTREATED ILLINOIS H-COAL, WYODAK H-COAL, AND SRC-II SYNCRUDES... 

Fire prevention and fire extinguishment can be described in terms of the fire model previously discussed. Fire prevention is generally a matter of keeping heat and fuel separated or, in some processes, keeping heated fuel from combining with oxygen. 

In Fig. 6.27, the flue gas is cooled to pinch temperature before being released to the atmosphere. The heat releaised from the flue gas between pinch and ambient temperature is the stack loss. Thus, in Fig. 6.27, for a given grand composite curve and theoretical flcune temperature, the heat from fuel amd stack loss can be determined. 

There always is a relation between fuel composition and that of hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere, whether it concerns hydrocarbon emissions from evaporative losses from the fuel system, or from exhaust gases. This is the reason that environmental protection regulations include monitoring the composition of motor and heating fuels. We will describe here the regulations already in existence and the work currently underway in this area with its possible effects on refining. 

The Beckstead-Derr-Price model (Fig. 1) considers both the gas-phase and condensed-phase reactions. It assumes heat release from the condensed phase, an oxidizer flame, a primary diffusion flame between the fuel and oxidizer decomposition products, and a final diffusion flame between the fuel decomposition products and the products of the oxidizer flame. Examination of the physical phenomena reveals an irregular surface on top of the unheated bulk of the propellant that consists of the binder undergoing pyrolysis, decomposing oxidizer particles, and an agglomeration of metallic particles. The oxidizer and fuel decomposition products mix and react exothermically in the three-dimensional zone above the surface for a distance that depends on the propellant composition, its microstmcture, and the ambient pressure and gas velocity. If aluminum is present, additional heat is subsequently produced at a comparatively large distance from the surface. Only small aluminum particles ignite and bum close enough to the surface to influence the propellant bum rate. The temperature of the surface is ca 500 to 1000°C compared to ca 300°C for double-base propellants. 

There has been increased interest in firing wood waste as a supplement to coal in either pulverized coal (PC) or cyclone boilers at 1—5% of heat input. This appHcation has been demonstrated by such electric utilities as Santee-Cooper, Tennessee Valley Authority, Georgia Power, Dehnarva, and Northern States Power. Cofiring wood waste with coal in higher percentages, eg, 10—15% of heat input, in PC and cyclone boilers is being carefully considered by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). This practice may have the potential to maximize the thermal efficiency of waste fuel combustion. If this practice becomes widespread, it will offer another avenue for use of fuels from waste. 

The mathematical formulation of forced convection heat transfer from fuel rods is well described in the Hterature. Notable are the Dittus-Boelter correlation (26,31) for pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and gases, and the Jens-Lottes correlation (32) for boiling water reactors (BWRs) in nucleate boiling. 

Petroleum refining, also called petroleum processing, is the recovery and/or generation of usable or salable fractions and products from cmde oil, either by distillation or by chemical reaction of the cmde oil constituents under the effects of heat and pressure. Synthetic cmde oil, produced from tar sand (oil sand) bitumen, and heavier oils are also used as feedstocks in some refineries. Heavy oil conversion (1), as practiced in many refineries, does not fall into the category of synthetic fuels (syncmde) production. In terms of Hquid fuels from coal and other carbonaceous feedstocks, such as oil shale (qv), the concept of a synthetic fuels industry has diminished over the past several years as being uneconomical in light of current petroleum prices. 

The fuel properties of wood can be summarized by ultimate and proximate analyses and deterrnination of heating value. The analytical procedures are the same as those for coal, but with some modifications. Analytical results generally vary about as much within a species as they do between species, except that softwood species generally have a higher carbon content and higher heating values than hardwood species because of the presence of more lignin and resinous materials in softwood species (see Fuels from waste). 

Smelting. The fuel suppHed to the reverberatory furnace is in the range of 5—6 GJ/t (4.7-5.7 x 10 Btu/t) concentrate. Steam produced in the waste heat boiler is equal to ca 60% of the energy suppHed by the fuel. The additional heat recovered from the exit gases in the recuperator to preheat the combustion air is equal to ca 10% of the energy from the fuel. Hence, the heat recovered from the furnace is equal to ca 70% of the heat from the fuels. 

The heat balance shows that the heat loss from the furnace walls is only ca 11% of the energy suppHed by the fuel and just slightly more than the sensible heat loss with the slag. The principal heat loss is in the stack gases and is equivalent to ca 30% of the energy suppHed by the fuel. 

Operating costs will include 5 to 10 percent of one worker s time, plus power and fuel required. Yearly maintenance costs will range From 50 to 10 percent of total installed costs. Total power for fans, dr er drive, and feed and prodirct conveyors will be in the range of 0.5 D to 1.0 D". Thermal efficiency of a high-temperature direc t-heat rotary dryer will range from 55 to 75 percent and, with steam-heated air, from 30 to 55 percent. 

Homogeneous reactions. Homogeneous noncatalytic reactions are normally carried out in a fluidized bed to achieve mixing of the gases and temperature control. The sohds of the bed act as a heat sink or source and facihtate heat transfer from or to the gas or from or to heat-exchange surfaces. Reaclious of this type include chlorination of hydrocarbons or oxidation of gaseous fuels. 

Combustion instability only used to be a problem with eonventional eombustors at very low engine powers. The phenomenon was ealled rumble. It was assoeiated with the fuel-lean zones of a eombustor, where the eonditions for burning are less attraetive. The eomplex 3D-flow strueture that exists in a eombustor will always have some zones that are suseeptible to the oseillatory burning. In a eonventional eombustor, the heat release from these oseillating zones was only a signifieant pereentage of the total eombustor heat release at low power eonditions. 

Use energy-efficient measures such as waste heat recovery from process gases to reduce fuel usage and associated emissions. 

Total heat evolved from fuel and absorbed by concrete. 

Calorific value The measure of the heating capacity of a fuel, usually expressed as the available heat resulting from the complete combustion of that fuel in kj kg or kj nr Gross calorific value includes the heat of condensation of the water vapor in a hydrogen fuel net calorific value excludes this. 

B is the heat transfer from Z to the closed cycle within control surface Y, which occurs during the time interval that A/f, the mass of fuel, is supplied and [CV]q is its calorific value per unit mass of fuel for the ambient temperature (Tq) at which the reactants enter. F = A/f[CV]o is equal to the heat (0o) that would be transferred from Z if the products were to leave the control surface at the entry temperature of the reactants, taken as the temperature of the environment, Tq. Fig. 1.7 illustrates the definition of calorific value. 

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