Industrial and Process Furnaces

Principles, Design and Operation

Peter Mullinger, Barrie Jenkins

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323984911
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Thermodynamics
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Industrial and Process Furnaces: Principles, Design and Operation, Third Edition?continues to provide comprehensive coverage on all aspects of furnace operation and design, including topics essential for process engineers and operators to better understand furnaces. New to this edition are sections on production, handling and utilization of alternative fuels such as biomass, hydrogen and various wastes, modeling of the process, combustion and heat transfer, their benefits, advantages and limitations, mitigation and removal of CO2 , the role of solar and other renewable energy, recent research, and the practical approach of the Whyalla steelworks for harnessing solar energy for sustainable steelmaking, hydrogen and as a "clean fuel". The book also includes a discussion on the limitations of hydrogen supply owing to fresh water supply constraints, the difficulty of storing and transporting hydrogen, and the current sociopolitical impetus of CO2. - Covers the manufacture and utilization of hydrogen as a clean fuel - Includes process modeling and expands on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with a special focus on flames and burners, costs, efficiencies and future trends - Expands on future trends, including sociopolitical impacts on CO2 emissions and control

Table of contents

• Industrial and Process Furnaces
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The combustion process
• Chapter 3 Fuels for furnaces
• Chapter 4 An introduction to heat transfer in furnaces
• Chapter 5 Flames and burners for furnaces
• Chapter 6 Combustion and heat transfer modelling
• Chapter 7 Fuel preparation and handling systems
• Chapter 8 Furnace control and safety
• Chapter 9 Furnace efficiency
• Chapter 10 Emissions and environmental impact
• Chapter 11 Furnace construction and materials
• Chapter 12 Furnace design methods
• Chapter 13 Economic evaluation
• Chapter 14 Selected examples of real furnace applications
• Chapter 15 Future trends and concluding remarks
• Index