Sludge Combustor Using Swirl and Active Combustion Control

Abstract

A research program directed at developing technology for compact shipboard incinerators for sludges is described. The concept utilizes previously developed Vortex Containment Combustor (VCC) as a primary unit with an active combustion control afterburner (AB). The overall power scale of the combined system is 0.15MJoule/sec and has a target sludge processing rate of 0.75 liter/min. Tests were undertaken to evaluate the particulate suspension qualities of the VCC and the overall performance of the combined VCC I active control AB processing intermediate levels of a surrogate sludge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382663

Entities

People

  • Jacob Cole
  • K. Schadow
  • Katherine E. Wilson
  • N. Widmer
  • T. Parr

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afterburners
  • Air Flow
  • Boundary Layer
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Combustors
  • Flow
  • Flow Rate
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Gases
  • Ignition
  • Incinerators
  • Particles
  • Particulates
  • Separators
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Water Flow

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Environmental Engineering.