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This book comprises research studies of novel work on combustion for sustainable energy development. It offers an insight into a few viable novel technologies for improved, efficient and sustainable utilization of combustion-based energy production using both fossil and bio fuels. Special emphasis is placed on micro-scale combustion systems that offer new challenges and opportunities. The book is divided into five sections, with chapters from 3-4 leading experts forming the core of each section. The book should prove useful to a variety of readers, including students, researchers, and professionals.
List of contents
Part I: General.- Introduction.- Technical challenges and scientific approach for a sustainable energy efficient future.- Part II: Biofuels: Production, properties and applications.- Biofuels from biomass.- Biomass fuel quality enhancement and the respiratory quotient (RQ) for ranking fossil and biomass fuels based on CO2 emissions.- Effect of biodiesel utilization on tribological properties of lubricating oil in a compression ignition engine.- Hydrogen enriched syngas from biomass steam gasification for use in land based gas turbine engines.- Part III: Combustion of fuels and engine performance.- Future trends in commercial aviation engines' combustion.- Spectroscopic methods and visualization applied to combustion diagnoses.- Lean blow-out detection techniques for partially premixed flames in a dump combustor.- Fluidized bed combustion of coal, renewable fuels and waste: Current Status and Developments.- Using petroleum and biomass derived fuels in duel-fuel diesel engines.- Mixture preparation effects on distributed combustion for gas turbine application.- Flame characteristics of vaporized renewable fuels and their blends with petroleum fuels.- Process and reactor level simulations of coal-direct chemical looping combustion.- Acoustic reynolds stress: the source of coherent structures during combustion instability.- Developing surrogates for liquid transportation fuels: the role of spherically symmetric droplet combustion.- Part IV: Emissions.- Urban traffic emissions and associated environmental impacts in India.- Comparison of primary and secondary emissions from an internal combustion engine.- Emissions and soot in partially premixed combustion.-Low-emission, fuel-flexible combustion of liquid fuels.- PART V: Sustainable energy systems and efficiency improvements.- In-depth performance evaluation of RDF from landfill reclamation for green electricity generation in a downdraftgasifier.- ceramics for sustainable energy technologies with a focus on polymer derived ceramics.- Solid fuel rocket motor efficiency improvement scheme.
About the author
Professor Ashok Pandey, MSc, PhD is currently Head of the Biotechnology Division, Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR, Trivandrum, India. He graduated from the University of Kanpur and took his Master's degree with a first class in Chemistry. He followed this with a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Allahabad. Then he worked as scientist in the National Sugar Institute, Kanpur and Suddeutsche Zucker AG, Germany. He joined the Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR at Trivandrum in 1987. He has been Visiting Professor to UFPR- Brazil, UBP- France and UNESCO Professor. Ashok has strong research interest in the area of Industrial Biotechnology, especially in Bioprocess Technology. During the past 28 years of his career, the research carried out has credited him with five patents, 17 books, 12 technical reports and about 200 papers. He has supervised five PhDs and 57 Master s students. He has won several awards, which include Best Scientific Work Achievement award from the Cuban Govt, Raman Research Fellowship Award, GBF, Germany and CNRS, France Fellowships, Young Scientist Award, etc. He occupies the Chair (F&H) of the International Society of Food, Agriculture and Environment (Finland), President of Biotech Research Society of India, President of the Association of Microbiologists of India (Trivandrum chapter), Vice-Chairman (Kerala) of the All India Biotech Association- SC and life-member of the National Academy of Sciences (I), Society of Biological Chemists (I), Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (I), and Association of Microbiologists of India. He serves as the Editor of Bioresource Technology and is also on the Editorial Board of four other international and five Indian journals. He has also edited an Encyclopaedia published by Haworth Press, USA. His current R&D efforts are on mainly on Bioconversion of biomass, solid-state fermentation, biotechnological application agro-industrial residues for value addition, etc.
Summary
This book comprises research studies of novel work on combustion for sustainable energy development. It offers an insight into a few viable novel technologies for improved, efficient and sustainable utilization of combustion-based energy production using both fossil and bio fuels. Special emphasis is placed on micro-scale combustion systems that offer new challenges and opportunities. The book is divided into five sections, with chapters from 3-4 leading experts forming the core of each section. The book should prove useful to a variety of readers, including students, researchers, and professionals.
