Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/R56068/01
Title:	Burner Design Tools for Clean and Efficient Natural Gas Combustion
Principal Investigator:	Fairweather, Professor M
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Researcher Co-Investigators:	Professor W Jones
Project Partners:	Advantica Technologies Ltd Aer Lingus Group PLC Maxon Combustion Systems Ltd RWE (Innogy/Npower)
Department:	Chemical Engineering
Organisation:	University of Leeds
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	02 September 2002	Ends:	01 September 2005	Value (£):	142,395
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Combustion
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Energy
Related Grants:	GR/R56075/01
Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 20 Sep 2001 Responsive Mode Panel A September 2001 Deferred
Summary on Grant Application Form
The UK's commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants has meant that natural gas now dominates all other fuels in the industrial and service sectors, and is responsible for 32% of all electricity generated. Despite the move to natural gas, carbon dioxide emissions from industrial combustion are currently rated at more than double that from all transport sectors. As natural gas production and usage increases, there is a requirement to ensure that natural gas burning equipment performs as cleanly and efficiently as possible to allow its environmental advantages to be realised. The vast majority of natural gas is burnt In boilers and furnaces using conventional industrial burners and, despite their number, major problems are still encountered by manufacturers and operators due to mismatching of commercially available burners with the operating requirements of plant. This leads to incomplete combustion and increased emissions, reductions in thermal efficiency and the build-up of thermal stress within items of plant, all of which result in risks to safe operation, increases in environmental impact and financial losses through damage and interruption of plant operation. The present work seeks to Improve this situation through the provision of novel, state-of-the-art technologies in computational combustion modelling to produce design tools which will enable manufacturers and operators of industrial plant using gas-fired burners to significantly improve the performance of that plant in terms of higher efficiency (and hence lower carbon dioxide emissions), lower pollutant emissions and greater flexibility in plant installation and operation.
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