Lean Combustion: Technology and Control - Softcover

9780124054622: Lean Combustion: Technology and Control

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124054625 ISBN 13: 9780124054622

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Combustion under sufficiently fuel-lean conditions can have the desirable attributes of high efficiency and low emissions, this being particularly important in light of recent and rapid increases in the cost of fossil fuels and concerns over the links between combustion and global climate change. Lean Combustion is an eminently authoritative, reference work on the latest advances in lean combustion technology and systems. It will offer engineers working on combustion equipment and systems both the fundamentals and the latest developments in more efficient fuel usage and in much-sought-after reductions of undesirable emissions, while still achieving desired power output and performance. This volume brings together research and design of lean combustion systems across the technology spectrum in order to explore the state-of-the-art in lean combustion and its role in meeting current and future demands on combustion systems. Readers will learn about advances in the understanding of ultra lean fuel mixtures and how new types of burners and approaches to managing heat flow can reduce problems often found with lean combustion such as slow, difficult ignition and frequent flame extinction. The book will also offer abundant references and examples of recent real-world applications.

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Technology: Engineering. General Lean Combustion Technology and Control Edited by Derek Dunn-Rankin Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine KEY FEATURES:

Covers all major recent developments in lean combustion science and technology, with new applications in both traditional combustion schemes as well as such novel uses as highly preheated and hydrogen-fueled systems
Offers techniques for overcoming difficult ignition problems and flame extinction with lean fuel mixtures
Covers new developments in lean combustion using high levels of pre-heat and heat re-circulating burners, as well as the active control of lean combustion instabilities

Readers will learn about advances in the understanding of ultra lean fuel mixtures and how new types of burners and approaches to managing heat flow can reduce problems often found with lean combustion such as slow, difficult ignition and frequent flame extinction. The book will also offer abundant references and examples of recent real-world applications.

Contents: 1. Introduction and Perspectives; 2. Fundamentals of Lean Combustion; 3. Highly Preheated Lean Combustion; 4. Lean-Burn Spark-Ignited Internal Combustion Engines; 5. Lean Combustion in Gas Turbines; 6. Lean Premixed Burners; 7. Stability and Control; 8. Lean Hydrogen Combustion

Related titles: Roy: Combustion Processes in Propulsion: Control, Noise, and Pulse Detonation, 978-0-12-369394-5 Glassman: Combustion, 3rd ed, 978-0-12-285852-9 Graebel: Advanced Fluid Mechanics, 978-0-12-370885-4

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Technology: Engineering. General

Lean Combustion
Technology and Control

Edited by Derek Dunn-Rankin
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine

KEY FEATURES

�Covers all major recent developments in lean combustion science and technology, with new applications in both traditional combustion schemes as well as such novel uses as highly preheated and hydrogen-fueled systems
�Offers techniques for overcoming difficult ignition problems and flame extinction with lean fuel mixtures
�Covers new developments in lean combustion using high levels of pre-heat and heat re-circulating burners, as well as the active control of lean combustion instabilities

Combustion under sufficiently fuel-lean conditions can have the desirable attributes of high efficiency and low emissions, this being particularly important in light of recent and rapid increases in the cost of fossil fuels and concerns over the links between combustion and global climate change. Lean Combustion is an eminently authoritative, reference work on the latest advances in lean combustion technology and systems. It will offer engineers working on combustion equipment and systems both the fundamentals and the latest developments in more efficient fuel usage and in much-sought-after reductions of undesirable emissions, while still achieving desired power output and performance. This volume brings together research and design of lean combustion systems across the technology spectrum in order to explore the state-of-the-art in lean combustion and its role in meeting current and future demands on combustion systems.

Readers will learn about advances in the understanding of ultra lean fuel mixtures and how new types of burners and approaches to managing heat flow can reduce problems often found with lean combustion such as slow, difficult ignition and frequent flame extinction. The book will also offer abundant references and examples of recent real-world applications.

Contents:
1. Introduction and Perspectives; 2. Fundamentals of Lean Combustion; 3. Highly Preheated Lean Combustion; 4. Lean-Burn Spark-Ignited Internal Combustion Engines; 5. Lean Combustion in Gas Turbines; 6. Lean Premixed Burners; 7. Stability and Control; 8. Lean Hydrogen Combustion

Related titles:
Roy: Combustion Processes in Propulsion: Control, Noise, and Pulse Detonation, 978-0-12-369394-5
Glassman: Combustion, 3rd ed, 978-0-12-285852-9
Graebel: Advanced Fluid Mechanics, 978-0-12-370885-4

About the Author:

Derek Dunn-Rankin is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. His current research activities include a study of the electrical aspects of microgravity combustion; using optical methods for measurements in combustion systems, and the direct combustion of methane hydrates.

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