Download or read book The Combustion of Solid Fuels and Wastes written by David Tillman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Careful organization and empirical correlations help clarify the prodigious technical information presented in this useful reference. - Written for practicing engineers, this comprehensive book supplies an overall framework of the combustion process; It connects information on specific reactions and reaction sequences with current applications and hardware; Each major group of combustion solids is evaluated; Among the many topics covered are: - Various biomass forms - The coalification process - Grate, kiln, and suspension firing - Fluidized bed combustion - Gasification of solids - The manufacturing process