Recycling of bleaching effluents into the black liquor recovery system has become an important step of a closed cycle technology that, in a kraft pulp mill, will result in a reduction in pollutants discharge into receiving waters and also a decrease of fresh water consumption. I…
The study at hand is motivated by the ever growing complexity of turbulent combustion CFD simulations, imposing severe demands on computational resources. Such demands often render the simulation of practical, supersonic reacting flows about complex geometries unaffordable. As s…
Aluminum based reactive nanomaterials have extensive applications in many fields including solid propellants, pyrotechnics, and catalytic reactions. One recent example is the novel concept of using nanostructured energetic particles for energy storage where the controlled exothe…
Large eddy simulation of spray combustion in an HSDI engine is carried out in this thesis. The implementation of the code was performed in logical steps that allowed both assessment of the performance of the existing KIVA-LES and later development. The analysis of the liquid ann…
Global energy consumption has been increasing around the world, owing to the rapid growth of industrialization and improvements in the standard of living. As a result, more carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide are being released into the environment. Therefore, techniques for achie…
This investigation details the effects of fuel constituents on ash deposition through systematic experimental and theoretical analyses of fundamental particle experiments and a suite of fuels with widely varying inorganic contents and compositions. The experiments were carried o…