Fuel
Technology
The basic research field of TWT Department in
fuel technology have been the solution of the problem of transition from
simple fossil fuel combustion at power plants to its complex power-technological
use.
Now all combustion specialists agree, that coal,
like oil or natural gas, is not the mere fuel. Fossil fuel, coal first,
is unique nature product, a source of everything needed by mankind.
Development of processes and technologies of complex
fuel (coal and heavy oil residues) processing at fossil power plants was
initiated at TWT department by professor V.A.
Golubtsov. Ecology-free methods of coal gasification and high-speed
pyrolysis with heating with solid, liquid, or gaseous coolant have been
developed and proved. The laboratory prototypes of high-speed pyrolysis
units with high-temperature melt, including autogenous slag as coolant,
have been developed and tested. Some of them were granted with invention
certificates. Theoretical studies on pyrogasification processing of low-grade
coal at fossil power plants and optimization of intracyclone coal gasification
at combined cycle units have been performed. The fuel laboratory includes
unique test rigs, in particular, to study the high-speed pyrolysis of coal
with different coolants. More then ten Ph.D. dissertations have been defended
at the department on this subject, including post-graduate students from
China, Vietnam, and Egypt. Many papers and monographs have been published
by the department personnel on the matter. The research on the fuel technology
is underway at present time, in spite of evident difficulties. This research
is performed under cooperation with many institutions, including NIITeplopribor,
VNIIUgleprovod, IVT RAN, Konakovskaya GRES. Students are involved in some
studies. Now the power industry of our country faces the problem how to
increase drastically the percentage of coal used at power plants and to
start use of new highly efficient coal technologies. The TWT Department
should play in this an important part.
For more information please contact Dr. Boris
S. Beloselsky.
Translated by A. Petrov petrova@twt.mpei.ac.ru
16.04.97
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