TECHNICAL CONTENT

• Technical design and efficient, economic operation of furnaces and boilers;
• Fuel characteristics and related combustion technologies;
• Fixed bed, fluidised bed and pulverised suspended combustion of solid fuels;
• Incineration of medium- and low-grade wastes;
• Use of biomass hydrogen and alternative fuels;
• Gasification of fuels and wastes;
• Advanced power generation , including combined generation of process heat and electricity;
• Oxy-fuel and oxygen-enhanced combustion;
• Burner design concepts for gaseous, liquid and pulverised solid fuels;
• Convective and radiative heat transfer in furnaces  and boilers;
• Furnace refractories, and refractory lining design for combustion chambers;
• Recovery of waste heat  from flue gases of process heaters, boilers and incineration plants;
• Novel heating  strategies and techniques in industrial high-temperature processes;
• Gas-side corrosion, slagging  and deposition problems in boilers;
• Pollutant emission and control  with furnace and boiler operation;
• Carbon capture and usage;
• Low emission combustion systems, especially  Low-NOX systems;
• Mathematical modelling of industrial processes and plant systems;
• Simulation and modelling of fundamental processes in gaseous, liquid and solid fuel combustion;
• Condition monitoring, advanced measurement technologies and innovative control strategies for boilers and furnaces;
• Field reports on boiler and furnace comissioning and operation;
• Safety;