Safety, Reliability, and Maintenance

Table 1.4 lists the priority R D needs that were identified for burners, boilers, and furnaces. Essentially all of these needs require some amount of testing. These needs were generated from the following end-use requirements increased system efficiency reduced NOx, CO, CO2, and particulate emissions increased fuel flexibility more robust and flexible process control and operations better safety, reliability, and maintenance lower capital and operational costs faster, low-cost technology development and enhanced system integration. Coupled with these needs are some barriers to improvement financial risk, inability to accurately predict the performance of new systems, lack of industry standards, and the wide gap that often exists between the research done at a small scale that needs to be applied to industrial-scale systems. Testing is often required to address some of these barriers. 

Safety,reliability,and maintenance in FMS research near builders and industrial users of FMS ... 

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