Objective THE SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT WILL HELP SAVE ON THE COST OF IMPORTED OIL THROUGH SUBSTITUTION BY A CHEAP READILY-AVAILABLE FUEL, NAMELY UNWASHED SMALL COAL. THE LOWER SIZE LIMIT WILL BE 25 KW. IT IS PROPOSED TO CONTINUE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SMALL-SCALE FBC BOILER UP TO THE POINT OF COMMERCIALIZATION. AN EARLIER RESEARCH PROJECT HAS DEVELOPED MOST OF THE NECESSARY TECHNOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES. A PROTOTYPE BOILER WAS OPERATED FOR SHORT DURATION TESTS AND SHOWED PROMISING PERFORMANCE. IT IS NECESSARY TO BUILD A SECOND PROTOTYPE IN ORDER TO OPTIMIZE ON COMBUSTOR SIZE AND SHAPE, ON THE HEAT TRANSFER REGIME, TO CARRY OUT LONG TERM PERFORMANCE TESTS ON THE ACTUATORS, SENSORS AND THE CONTROL MECHANISM, TO TRANSCRIBE THE CONTROL CIRCUITRY FROM THE CONTROL COMPUTER USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT WORK TO DEDICATED MICROCIRCUITRY, TO CARRY OUT MATERIALS DURABILITY TESTS, AND TO CARRY OUT BOILER PERFORMANCE TESTS. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoalengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP1-ENNONUC 3C - Research and development programme (EEC) in the field of Non-Nuclear Energy, 1985-1988 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator National Institute for Higher Education-Limerick EU contribution No data Address Plassey Technological Park 61 Limerick Ireland See on map Total cost No data
