| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M17082/01 |
| Title: |
INCINERATOR BED MODELLING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Swithenbank, Professor J |
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| Department: |
Chemical & Biological Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Sheffield |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1998 |
Ends: |
30 September 2000 |
Value (£): |
117,050
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| Combustion |
Energy Efficiency |
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| Environment |
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In the UK, landfill tax is designed to encourage energy efficient waste management strategies aimed at reduing the amount of waste to be landfilled through incineration while, maximising the recovery of energy from the waste. However, at present, there is no fundamentally based and validated mathematical model of the combustion of a bed of such wastes and hence design, operation and control of incinerators is still based on crude empirical relations. Furthermore, the flow conditions at the surface of the bed are the key boundary parameters for studies of freeboard and downstream phenomena. Thus research into secondary combustion and the density of contaminants and emissions is inhibited by a lack of knowledge of fundamental data required for modelling of the processes that occur inside the burning refuse bed. The objective of the present proposal is to acquire experimental data to provide coefficients for use in our mathematical model and validation of the model of the incinerator burning bed. This model was developed during our recent 18 months' EPSRC funded feasibiliy study project (GR/L22539). This study has been very successful.
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