Gas Turbine Pollutant Emissions

Emissions from civil subsonic air traffic are potentially in sufficient amounts to affect climate, particularly with the projected growth in air traffic. These six papers from a November 1999 seminar present advances in new low-emission and fuel efficient technologies aimed at addressing environmental concerns in a balanced manner. The topics are legislation and control technology, improved combustor turndown using a variable swirl number fuel injector, the aero engine response to the protection of the global atmosphere, predictive methods for gas turbine combustor emissions, the influence of premixture equivalence ratio on the thermo-acoustic response of a swirl burner, and the modeling of CO and NO formation in turbulent jet flames. No index. Distributed by ASME. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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