Fuel Assessment

Successful simulation of combustion relies on the accuracy of the combustion model and requires advanced fuel characterisation data.

With power plants seeking to diversify their fuel diets to maintain fuel security and manage fuel costs, having the ability to predict how a change in fuel may impact on plant performance is essential.

Similarly, plants seeking to reduce carbon emissions through co-firing coal with biomass, or dedicated biomass or Energy from Waste plants with variable input fuels, all need to know what impacts these fuels will have on plant performance  and reliability.

These are all areas in which RJM’s engineers have built up considerable expertise.

RJM’s fuel characterisation testing, carried out by its own industry-leading experts includes:

  • High temperature volatile release (HTVM)
  • Devolatilisation kinetic rates
  • Char combustion kinetic rates
  • Petrographic & char morphology analysis
  • Volatile/char fuel-bound nitrogen split
  • Detailed coal / biomass particle size and shape analysis
  • Ash, slagging and fouling characterisation