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Informationen zum Autor Thomas F. McGowan is President and founder of TMTS Associates Inc., a firm that specializes in thermal systems and air pollution control. He has thirty-five years of experience in combustion, air pollution control, solids handling, and industrial ventilation. Michael L. Brown is a Senior Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Enterprise Innovation Institute in the Energy and Sustainability Services Division. His work includes energy efficiency and conservation, energy management projects, and alternate energy projects including studies on production of densified wood pellets. William S. Bulpitt is a Senior Research Engineer for the Georgia Institute of Technology's Strategic Energy Institute. His current work includes research in renewable and transitional energy with utilities and industry. James L. Walsh, Jr. is a Senior Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With more than forty years of professional experience in design engineering, applied research, technical assistance, and training, he specializes in energy conversion, waste conversion, environmental compliance assistance, and the design, operation, and analysis of pollution control systems. Klappentext This book explains characteristics of renewable fuels, especially biomass and wood, and the cost-effective and environment-friendly methods of handling, storing and burning these fuels. It is complete with the economic evaluation method, introduction of the pollution control equipment for limiting the emission from fuel combustion, case studies, and costs and carbon emission comparisons between conventional and alternate fuels. Many case studies are introduced here too.This book is an update and expansion of the "Industrial Wood Energy Handbook" by a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984. It introduces new technologies new technologies not available at the time of the early version. Zusammenfassung Updating the Industrial Wood Energy Handbook by a team from Georgia Tech, this book explains characteristics of renewable fuels, especially biomass and wood, and the cost-effective and environmentally-friendly methods of handling, storing and burning these fuels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1 Introduction to Alternate Fuels 1 Chapter 2 Fuel Properties and Combustion Theory 13 Chapter 3 Liquid Fuels from Biomass 37 Chapter 4 Biomass Combustion Equipment-Steam, Hot Oil, and Hot Gas 45 Chapter 5 Biomass Fuel Storage and Handling 95 Chapter 6 Cogeneration and Power Generation 125 Chapter 7 Emissions and Control 137 Chapter 8 Environment and Safety: Rules, Regulations, and Safe Practice 157 Chapter 9 Biomass Fuel Supply and Purchasing 171 Chapter 10 Fuel-Switching Feasibility Study Methodology 175 Chapter 11 Economic Analysis of Biomass Combustion Systems 183 Chapter 12 Biomass Fuel Processing Routes and Economics 191 Chapter 13 Biomass Fuel Processing Network 221 Chapter 14 Example Feasibility Study: Nonforest Products Facility 225 Appendix 1 Equipment Manufacturers/Vendors Listing 239 Appendix 2 State Forestry Commission Offices 247 Appendix 3 Glossary 253 Index 259 ...
