Combustion Technology | Combustion Research Facility | High-Temperature Drop-Tube Furnace
Ducting, Coal-Feeder, and Scrubber
The Southern Company and Southern Research Combustion Research Facility is located on the Birmingham, Alabama, campus of Southern Research. The facility was designed and constructed by Southern Research under contract to Southern Company Services (Southern Company). Southern Company and Southern Research jointly own the facility, and Southern Research operates the facility under contract to Southern Company. However, Southern Research can also perform confidential research for outside parties, including other utilities, with the payment of a facility usage fee to Southern Company. The facility is designed to operate at 3.6 million Btu per hour firing on natural gas or coal, which is equivalent to 1.0 MW thermal.
Low-NOx Burner
The design of the facility was carefully chosen to provide a close simulation of the physical processes that occur in a full-scale utility boiler. The facility consists of a coal crushing and milling area, a coal feeding system, a vertical refractory lined furnace, a single up-fired burner, a horizontal convective pass with air-cooled tube banks, a series of heat exchangers, an electrostatic precipitator, a pulse jet baghouse, and a packed column scrubber.
Get more detailed information about the Combustion Research Facility (667KB, PDF format).
To discuss how Southern Research can help address your research or testing needs, please contact Dr. Thomas Gale at gale@southernresearch.org.
Combustion Technology | Combustion Research Facility | High-Temperature Drop-Tube Furnace