This book presents numerical and experimental study of physical insight of the main vortex, responsible for the efficient mixing of fuel and air in a micro gas turbine combustor. Experimental measurements performed on a laboratory model using Particle Image Velocimetry deliver details of flow structure, important for optimization of combustor geometry and verification of numerical models. Three-dimensional, viscous, turbulent, isothermal flow characteristics of this combustor model were simulated via Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) code. The effects of swirlers and mass flow rate were...

This monograph presents the research work carried out in studying the use of air staging technique in a fluidized bed combustor as an effective alternative to control and reduce the emissions from the combustion of industrial and agricultural waste. Fluidized bed combustion has been recognized as a technology that can generate power from solid wastes and more importantly it has been known as a suitable combustion system for biomass. This monograph highlights the influence of applying air staging technique in reducing the gaseous emissions from a fluidized bed combustor. In this investigation,...