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> Laboratories > Solid Fuels
Beneficiation and Technology
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| Assoc Prof Vamvouka D. |
+30 28210 37603
+30 28210 69554 |
Laboratory objective: The Laboratory of Solid Fuels Beneficiation and Technology was founded in 1993 and belongs to the Division Exploitation of Minerals and at the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering in the Technical University of Crete.
The aim of the laboratory is
the qualitative upgradement of solid fuels in order to increase
their efficiency for energy production, to lower the cost
of production and to protect the environment from pollutant
emissions, as well as the development of new clean technologies
for the exploitation of solid fuels. The main research activities
of the laboratory are:
- New clean technologies for solid fuels. Pyrolysis, combustion
and gasification in fixed and fluidized bed.
- Kinetic studies of pyrolysis, combustion and gasification
by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA/DTG) and product analysis.
- Mathematical modeling of pyrolysis, combustion and gasification
processes.
- Development of methods for the reduction of slagging and
fouling in boilers (ash reduction, desulphurization, ash
constituents’ extraction, use of absorbent materials, use
of additives, solid fuels mixtures).
- Development of methods for the reduction of pollutant
emissions from pyrolysis, combustion and gasification processes
(ash reduction, desulphurization, use of absorbent materials,
use of catalysts, use of active carbon, solid fuels mixtures).
- Characterization via physicochemical and chemical analyses
(proximate analysis, ultimate analysis, calorific value
measurement, chemical and mineralogical analysis of ash,
trace element analysis, fluid temperatures of ash, petrographic
analysis, specific area measurements, in cooperation with
other laboratories).
- Qualitative upgradement by physical and chemical beneficiation
methods (selective grinding, heavy liquids, flotation, spherical
agglomeration, chemical leaching, chemical comminution).
- Exploitation of residues from pyrolysis, combustion and
gasification processes (absorbent materials, additives for
cement industries, catalysts).
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