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The project involves a laboratory experimental study to examine the mechanisms of ultra-lean combustion, coupled with a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and kinetic modelling study to investigate scale-up parameters.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Coal mine ventilation air (MVA) emissions are characterised by very low methane concentrations (typically less than 1%), high flow rates (up to 1900 m3/s) and significant short and long term fluctuations in both concentration and flow. These attributes constitute the major technical barriers to the capture and use of the methane in MVA. A cost effective method of MVA mitigation, which does not require either a supplementary fuel source or a large-scale infrastructure for power generation, has yet to be proven.To address this challenge the Laboratory for Sustainable Technology is developing a novel porous burner reactor using advanced computational modelling techniques. Porous burners have the ability to burn lean fuel/air mixtures, and it has additionally been shown that the combustion process is stable against changes in fuel concentration and flow rate.
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 354