Combustion Emissions

Professor Emeritus, University of California Santa Barbara Dr. Keith Schofield is President/CEO of ChemData Research Corporation and Emeritus Research Professor at the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. He is currently developing and supplying the technology for a new, low cost method, to control mercury emissions from coal combustors. Before taking up this position in 2009, Dr. Schofield was a Research professor at the University of California studying the combustion chemistry of traces of mercury and other trace metals that exist in fuel emissions. He is the CEO of ChemData Research and is a member of The Combustion Institute. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry, and studied for his BA, from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

1. Introduction
2. Recent concepts
3. The generalities that now are apparent
4. The importance of temperature, interaction time and heterogeneous collision frequency constraints: fuel-rich or -lean differences
5. The nature of flame gases free of non-metallic content
6. The role of particles, ash or surfaces
7. Trace species reported combustion behavior and the chemistry within the modern framework of understanding
8. Summary and conclusions