Milt Beychok
12-30-2007, 12:08 AM
For those of you who are interested in the amount of flue gas emissions from burning various fossil fuels, here are some typical flue gas generation data for burning natural gas or fuel oil or coal. It is interesting to note that the flue gas generation for the three different fuels ranges from 294.8 to 323.1 Nm³ of wet flue gas per gigajoule of fuel which only amounts to a 10 percent difference. The data were obtained by stoichiometric calculations.
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Although not shown in the above tabulations, the flue gases will also contain very small amounts of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other contamonats depending on the specific composition of each of the fossil fuels as well as the amount of excess combustion air used in application.
(This is an excerpt of an article I created in the online Wikipedia as well as on my website.)
http://www.air-dispersion.com/FlueGasSmall.gif
Although not shown in the above tabulations, the flue gases will also contain very small amounts of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other contamonats depending on the specific composition of each of the fossil fuels as well as the amount of excess combustion air used in application.
(This is an excerpt of an article I created in the online Wikipedia as well as on my website.)