Handbook of Burner Technology for Industrial Furnaces (eBook)

The demands made on the energy-efficiency and pollutant emissions of
industrial furnaces are rising continuously and have high priority in
view of the latest increases in energy prices and of the discussion of
climate change for which CO2 emissions are at least partly responsible.
Great importance is now attached to increasing energy-efficiency in a
large range of industrial sectors, including the steel industry and
companies operating heat-treatment installations. This work is intended
to provide support for those persons responsible for the clean and
efficient heating of industrial furnaces.

The initial chapters of the Handbook of Burner Technology for
Industrial Furnaces deal with the indispensable theoretical principles
of combustion theory, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Only those
aspects which are of importance for burner technology are examined. The
succeeding chapters then proceed on to burner technology as such, and
focus on combustion-system concepts, analyze pollutant generation and
reduction, and discuss the recovery of heat for use in combustion-air
preheating, the most important provision for the enhancement of
energy-efficiency.

The "Industrial Burners" chapter outlines, with detailed
examples, the essential types of industrial burners and their
integration into the extremely diverse range of modern furnace-system
concepts.
This is then followed by chapters on standardization and legal
requirements, more specialized and detailed literature, relevant
research institutions, and an annex containing the relevant physical
data.

The book discusses the present-day state of technological development
in a practically orientated manner. The reader is provided with a
detailed view of all relevant principles, terms and processes in
industrial combustion technology, and thus with important aids for his
or her daily work. This compact-format book, with its plethora of
information, is an indispensable reference source for all persons who
are professionally involved in any way at all with the heating and
combustion-systems of industrial furnaces.

Selected topics:

Combustion theory, Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer, Combustion
technology, Computer simulation, Pollutant reduction, Heat exchangers,
Industrial burners (types and applications), Standards and legal
requirements, Thermodynamic tables and terms, etc.