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| The new tool 'ThermoCombustion' optimizes industrial combustion processes | Know in advance the maximum temperature that a vehicle's engine can reach or detect the energy consumed by an electricity generation plant or predict the polluting emissions of an industry and even determine the performance of the industrial installation.
These are some of the functions performed by 'ThermoCombustion', the novel software developed by the professor at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Joaquín Zueco.
This thermodynamic laboratory allows the employer to obtain very complete results quickly, accurately and with a final report.
It also avoids in many cases costly tests and allows to detect and quantify the energy losses in the different elements of the installation.This Thermal Engineering tool developed by Zueco, from the Thermal Engines and Machines area, allows the thermodynamic study and analysis of combustion chambers, industrial furnaces, steam generators, and gas and steam power cycles.
These elements are present in numerous industrial facilities, for example in chemical or petrochemical plants, combined cycles of electricity generation, and many others.The software has been in development for 11 years.
It is available in two versions, depending on whether the fuel is solid, liquid or gaseous, since it allows testing with a mixture of up to 24 hydrocarbons, including non-combustible substances and others such as biodiesel and biomass such as walnut shells, pistachios or solid waste, among others.
The tool has a database of 101 substances, where the most relevant chemical and thermophysical properties are defined in combustion processes.This development is already in the purification phase, according to Joaquín Zueco, professor of the degree in Industrial Technologies and Chemical Engineering.
The rehearsals began seven years ago with students from the Industrial School.The commercialization phase will begin shortly, so at the end of this year it could be operational in different industrial plants.For this research work, the professor, researcher of the Modeling and Thermal and Energy Systems group at the UPCT, has had the support of the Seneca Foundation-Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia within its call for Proof of Concept .* Joaquín Zueco, has wanted to dedicate this work to the memory of his colleague and friend Horacio Sánchez Reinoso, the professor at the School of Industrial Engineering who died last day at the age of 48.
Source: UPCT
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