Flue gas emissions from burning various fuels

mbeychok · Coal Joined: Jan 02, 2006 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Here are some typical flue gas generation data for burning natural gas or fuel oil or coal. It is interesting to note that the flue gas generation for the three different fuels ranges from 11,600 to 12,714 standard cubic feet of wet flue gas which only amounts to a 10 percent difference. The data were obtained by stoichiometric calculations.

If anyone has a typical analysis of wood or of any fuels other than gas, oil and coal, and would email it to me, I would be happy to develop similar data for such fuels and publish it here.

Milton Beychok
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albente · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 1356

to burn things is the rootcause of our problems in the first place.

Anybody else noticing our obsession with fire and the primary use of of oil, gas and coal? As I concluded in the past, the controlled oxidation (fire) has become subject of enormous abuse while this is nowhere reflected in any discussion.