TY - JOUR
TI - FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION WITH THE USE OF GREEK SOLID FUELS
AU - Kakaras Emmanouil
AU - Grammelis Panagiotis
AU - Skodras George E
AU - Vourliotis Panagiotis
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2003
VL - 7
IS - 2
SP - 33
EP - 42
PT - Article
AB - The paper is an overview of the results obtained up to date from the combustion and co-combustion activities with Greek brown coal in different installations, both in semi-industrial and laboratory scale. Combustion tests with Greek lignite were realised in three different Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion (CFBC) facilities. Low rank lignite was burned in a pilot scale facility of approx. 100kW thermal capacity, located in Athens (NTUA) and a semi-industrial scale of 1.2 MW thermal capacity, located at RWE's power station Niederaussem in Germany. Co-combustion tests with Greek xylitic lignite and waste wood were carried out in the 1 MWth CFBC installation of AE&E, in Austria. Lab-scale co-combustion tests of Greek pre-dried lignite with biomass were accomplished in a bubbling fluidised bed in order to investigate ash melting problems. The obtained results of all aforementioned activities showed that fluidised bed is the appropriate combustion technology to efficiently exploit the low quality Greek brown coal either alone or in conjunction with biomass species.