Study of oil sludge combustion in a bubbling fluidized bed incinerator
At the Combustion Laboratory of the Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM), a small pilot plant-scale bubbling fluidized bed incinerator facility was designed, fabricated and constructed to dispose of the refinery oil sludge. For the incinerator, with a refractory-lined combustion chamber of 0.15 m square cross-section and a total height of 1.5 m, the combustor was operated with bed temperature ranging from 700oC to 850oC. The combustion efficiency achieved was around 77%. Flue gas emission has CO concentration of 400 ppm to 500 ppm and NO x concentration of 98 ppm.
This report summarises the research completed during the first phase of the FireBeaters project (2006-2007). It includes an overview of the Met Office Fire Severity Index, a study of fire behaviour on heather moorlands, testing of existing fire behaviour models and fire danger prediction systems and an analysis of the timing of wildfires in Scotland. ::: ::: Some of the fire behaviour work has since been published in a number of peer reviewed journal articles. The report itself was peer reviewed by Dr. Wendy Anderson of the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales.