Impact of Mineral Impurities in Solid Fuel Combustion

Keynote Papers.- Ash-Related Issues During Combustion and Gasification.- Mineral Characterization for Combustion.- The Development of Power Technologies for Low-Grade Coal.- Low-Rank Coal and Advanced Technologies for Power Generation.- The Thermal Conductivity of Ash Deposits.- The Development of Advanced Clean Coal Technology in Japan.- Factors Critically Affecting Fireside Deposits in Steam Generators.- Mineral Matter, Ash and Slag Characterisation.- Advanced Analytical Characterization of Coal Ashes—An Idemitsu Kosan—Elsam Cooperation Project.- A Novel Application of CCSEM for Studying Agglomeration in Fluidised Bed Combustion.- Thermomechanical Analysis and Alternative Ash Fusibility Temperatures.- Ash Fusibility Detection Using Image Analysis.- Ash Fusion Quantification by Means of Thermal Analysis.- Sticking Mechanisms in Hot-Gas Filter Ashes.- Classification System for Ash Deposits Based on Sem analyses.- Determination of Amorphous Material in Peat Ash by X-ray Diffraction.- System Accuracy for CCSEM Analysis of Minerals in Coal.- The Microstructure and Mineral Content of Pulverised Coal Chars.- The Use of Low-rank and Low-grade Coals and Cofiring.- Fireside Considerations When Cofiring Biomass with Coal in PC Boilers.- Summary of Recent Results Obtained from Using the Controlled Fluidised Bed Agglomeration Method.- Deposition and Corrosion in Straw- and Coal-Straw Co-Fired Utility Boilers.- Development of Blast-Furnace Gas Firing Burner for Cofiring Boilers with Pulverized Coal.- Changes in Slagging Behaviour with Composition for Blended Coals.- Role of Inorganics During Fluidised-Bed Combustion of Low-Rank Coals.- Role of Additives in Controlling Agglomeration and Defluidization During Fluidized Bed Combustion of High-Sodium, High-Sulphur Low-Rank Coal.-The Agglomeration in the Fluidized Bed Boiler During the Co-Combustion of Biomass with Peat.- Ash Fusion and Deposit Formation at Straw Fired Boilers.- Case Studies in Conventional and Advanced Plant.- Influence of Metal Surface Temperature and Coal Quality on Ash Deposition in PC-Fired Boilers.- Full Scale Deposition Trials at 150 MWE PF-Boiler Co-Firing Coal and Straw.- Slagging Tests on the Suitability of Alternative Coals in a 325MWF PC Boiler.- Predicting Superheater Deposit Formation in Boilers Burning Biomasses.- Deposit Formation in the Convective Path of a Danish 80MWth CFB-Boiler Co-Firing Straw and Coal for Power Generation.- Research on the Melting Points of Some Chinese Coal Ashes.- Computer Controlled Scanning Electron Microscopy (CCSEM) Analysis of Straw Ash.- Prognosis of Slagging and Fouling Properties of Coals Based on Widely Available Data and Results of Additional Measuraments.- The Slagging Behavior of Coal Blends in the Pilot-Scale Combustion Test Facility.- Studies at Rig Scale (Including Corrosion).- In Situ Measurements of the Thermal Conductivity of Ash Deposits Formed in a Pilot-Scale Combustor.- Low Corrosivity of Coal Chlorine.- Laboratory Studies on the Influence of Gaseous HCl on Superheater Corrosion.- The Role of Alkali Sulfates and Chlorides in Post Cyclone Deposits from Circulating Fluidized Bed Boilers Firing Biomass and Coal.- Fly Ash Deposition Onto the Convective Heat Exchangers During Combustion of Willow in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler.- Ash Behaviour in Biomass Fluidised-Bed Gasification.- Bench-Scale Biomass/Coal Cofiring Studies.- Iron in Coal and Slagging.- Develpments in Advanced Coal Technologies.- Fractionated Heavy Metal Separation in Biomass Combustion Plants—Possibilities, Technological Approach, Experiences.-Distributions of Major and Trace Elements in Entrained Slagging Coal Gasification Process.- Behavior of Inorganic Materials during Pulverized Coal Combustion.- Energy Production from Contaminated Biomass.- Triboelectrostatic Coal Cleaning.- Development of Advanced PFBC.- Operating Experiences of 71MW PFBC Demonstration Plant.- Development of an Innovative Fluidized Bed Cement Kiln System.- The Influence of Pressure on the Behaviour of Fuel Carbonates.- Modeling of Ash Behaviour and Ash Deposition.- Modeling of ASH Deposit Growth and Sintering in PC-Fired Boilers.- Predicting Ash Behavior in Conventional Power Systems.- Thermodynamic Modelling of the System Al2O3-SiO2-CaO-FeO-Fe2O3 to Characterise Coal Ash Slags.- Development of a Prediction Scheme for Pulverised Coal-Fired Boiler Slagging.- Modelling the Initial Structure of Ash Deposits and Structure Changes Due to Sintering.