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12th International Conference on Boiler Technology 2014 “Current Issues of Construction and Operation of Boilers”
Energy 92 (2015) 1e2
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Editorial
12th International Conference on Boiler Technology 2014 “Current Issues of Construction and Operation of Boilers”
12th International Conference on Boiler Technology “Current Issues of Construction and Operation of Boilers” was held on 21e24 October 2014. The conference main organizers were the Institute of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery (IPET) of the Silesian University of Technology and RAFAKO SA, with support from EDF Polska SA, Foster Wheeler Energia Polska Sp. z o.o., KIC InnoEnergy Poland Plus and Tauron Wytwarzanie SA. The conference was held under the patronage of the Committee on Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and under a honorary patronage of the Technical Inspection Office. The conference, which is organized every 4 years, is the oldest and biggest scientific conference on boiler technology. The early editions were nation-wide only and the first conference in the series was held in 1964, which means that this year's edition had a jubilee character. Apart from the 50th anniversary of the Conference, also the co-organizer RAFAKO celebrated its 65th anniversary. The 12th Conference on Boiler Technology gathered a wide circle of Polish and foreign scientists and boiler technology specialists from universities, industrial institutes, design offices, boilermaking plants, power stations and other users of the boiler equipment. The foreign participants were from Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, the Republic of South Africa and Sweden. All in all, there were over 500 participants from 134 institutions. The conference traditionally keeps its sessions open to students, in this edition e members of scientific circles of the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology and participants of the KIC InnoEnergy Master School programme “MSc Clean Fossil and Alternative Fuels Energy”. The scope of the conference included the following topics: Development of boilers and auxiliary devices:
supercritical boilers, boilers firing solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, fluidized bed boilers, waste heat boilers for CHP, boilers firing biomass, biogas and waste, low-emission furnaces, coal pulverizers and their installations, auxiliary equipment of boilers, environmental protection equipment, modernization and revitalization of boilers, prospective combustion systems, materials in boiler technology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.10.095 0360-5442/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Operating problems of boilers and auxiliary devices:
unsteady-state operation, problems of efficiency, flexibility and reliability, materials diagnostics and wear estimation, control and improvement of operating procedures, erosion, corrosion and fouling of heating surfaces, combustion and co-combustion of alternative fuels, automatic control systems, problems concerning restrictions on emissions of harmful substances.
108 papers were submitted after they had been properly reviewed by independent members of the academic staff from different units. According to the rules adopted for the conference organization, all the papers were presented by authors within Thematic Sessions. No poster sessions were anticipated. Two Science and Technology Information Sessions were also held to allow presentation of papers and communication on the latest achievements and technological solutions. Selected scientific papers, after proper revision and another round of review by the Scientific Committee, were published in special issues of Energy (Elsevier) and Chemical and Process Engineering (De Gruyter). Among 17 papers selected for publication in this special issue of the Energy Journal, a clear research trends are observed which are becoming implemented in the state-of-the-art boiler technology. These trends comprise combustion issues of low quality gaseous fuels such as those containing nitrogen compounds and those containing methane resulting from coal mines’ ventilation air. Combustion of traditional solid fuels is also affected by gradually lowering quality of coal and biomass. In order to countermeasure negative side effects of such solid fuels, innovative additives are studied in laboratory and full-scale reality. More and more stringent emission regulations are a driving force for implementation of low emission combustion systems including oxygen enriched or modified atmosphere combustion. The phenomena presented above are a subject of both laboratory and full-scale investigations as well as CFD modelling while the former is usually validating modelling results. A trend towards modelling of more and more complicated processes is clearly visible. On top of that a set of papers reflect operating, maintenance and reliability of boilers and boiler auxiliary devices. Phenomena occurring at supercritical steam parameters are thoroughly investigated
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together with thermal stresses and their distribution at transient, start-up modes of boiler operation. As part of the jubilee celebrations, fifteen distinguished power engineering specialists were awarded the honorary title of “Miles Energeticae”. With so much interest from the participants, plans for the next 13th ICBT in the autumn of 2018 are already under way. More information, including photographs from the conference and from the historic jubilee celebrations can be found on www.icbt.polsl.pl. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, let me express sincere thanks to all the ICBT participants for their substantial contribution. Special thanks go to Editor-in-Chief Professor Henrik Lund and
Special Issue Editors Professor Wojciech Stanek and Professor Sylwester Kalisz, as well as to the Energy Journal team for swift and smooth editing of the Special Issue. _ Marek Pronobis prof. dr hab. inz. Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Director of the Institute of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery, Silesian University of Technology, Poland E-mail address: [email protected].
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Energy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/energy
Editorial
12th International Conference on Boiler Technology 2014 “Current Issues of Construction and Operation of Boilers”
12th International Conference on Boiler Technology “Current Issues of Construction and Operation of Boilers” was held on 21e24 October 2014. The conference main organizers were the Institute of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery (IPET) of the Silesian University of Technology and RAFAKO SA, with support from EDF Polska SA, Foster Wheeler Energia Polska Sp. z o.o., KIC InnoEnergy Poland Plus and Tauron Wytwarzanie SA. The conference was held under the patronage of the Committee on Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and under a honorary patronage of the Technical Inspection Office. The conference, which is organized every 4 years, is the oldest and biggest scientific conference on boiler technology. The early editions were nation-wide only and the first conference in the series was held in 1964, which means that this year's edition had a jubilee character. Apart from the 50th anniversary of the Conference, also the co-organizer RAFAKO celebrated its 65th anniversary. The 12th Conference on Boiler Technology gathered a wide circle of Polish and foreign scientists and boiler technology specialists from universities, industrial institutes, design offices, boilermaking plants, power stations and other users of the boiler equipment. The foreign participants were from Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, the Republic of South Africa and Sweden. All in all, there were over 500 participants from 134 institutions. The conference traditionally keeps its sessions open to students, in this edition e members of scientific circles of the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology and participants of the KIC InnoEnergy Master School programme “MSc Clean Fossil and Alternative Fuels Energy”. The scope of the conference included the following topics: Development of boilers and auxiliary devices:
supercritical boilers, boilers firing solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, fluidized bed boilers, waste heat boilers for CHP, boilers firing biomass, biogas and waste, low-emission furnaces, coal pulverizers and their installations, auxiliary equipment of boilers, environmental protection equipment, modernization and revitalization of boilers, prospective combustion systems, materials in boiler technology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.10.095 0360-5442/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Operating problems of boilers and auxiliary devices:
unsteady-state operation, problems of efficiency, flexibility and reliability, materials diagnostics and wear estimation, control and improvement of operating procedures, erosion, corrosion and fouling of heating surfaces, combustion and co-combustion of alternative fuels, automatic control systems, problems concerning restrictions on emissions of harmful substances.
108 papers were submitted after they had been properly reviewed by independent members of the academic staff from different units. According to the rules adopted for the conference organization, all the papers were presented by authors within Thematic Sessions. No poster sessions were anticipated. Two Science and Technology Information Sessions were also held to allow presentation of papers and communication on the latest achievements and technological solutions. Selected scientific papers, after proper revision and another round of review by the Scientific Committee, were published in special issues of Energy (Elsevier) and Chemical and Process Engineering (De Gruyter). Among 17 papers selected for publication in this special issue of the Energy Journal, a clear research trends are observed which are becoming implemented in the state-of-the-art boiler technology. These trends comprise combustion issues of low quality gaseous fuels such as those containing nitrogen compounds and those containing methane resulting from coal mines’ ventilation air. Combustion of traditional solid fuels is also affected by gradually lowering quality of coal and biomass. In order to countermeasure negative side effects of such solid fuels, innovative additives are studied in laboratory and full-scale reality. More and more stringent emission regulations are a driving force for implementation of low emission combustion systems including oxygen enriched or modified atmosphere combustion. The phenomena presented above are a subject of both laboratory and full-scale investigations as well as CFD modelling while the former is usually validating modelling results. A trend towards modelling of more and more complicated processes is clearly visible. On top of that a set of papers reflect operating, maintenance and reliability of boilers and boiler auxiliary devices. Phenomena occurring at supercritical steam parameters are thoroughly investigated
2
Editorial / Energy 92 (2015) 1e2
together with thermal stresses and their distribution at transient, start-up modes of boiler operation. As part of the jubilee celebrations, fifteen distinguished power engineering specialists were awarded the honorary title of “Miles Energeticae”. With so much interest from the participants, plans for the next 13th ICBT in the autumn of 2018 are already under way. More information, including photographs from the conference and from the historic jubilee celebrations can be found on www.icbt.polsl.pl. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, let me express sincere thanks to all the ICBT participants for their substantial contribution. Special thanks go to Editor-in-Chief Professor Henrik Lund and
Special Issue Editors Professor Wojciech Stanek and Professor Sylwester Kalisz, as well as to the Energy Journal team for swift and smooth editing of the Special Issue. _ Marek Pronobis prof. dr hab. inz. Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Director of the Institute of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery, Silesian University of Technology, Poland E-mail address: [email protected].