OREANDA-NEWS. December 7, 2009. E4-SibCOTES took part in 7th National Solid Fuel Combustion Conference held on October 10-13, 2009 at the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics belonging to the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), Akademgorogok, Novosibirsk.
 
Over 100 researchers and scientists from research and scientific institutes and manufacturing enterprises located in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Great Britain have got together to share their experience and discuss power industry development approaches. It is the first time when Mr. Brian Spalding, Professor of Heat Transfer, Great Britain and Mr. Vladimir Nakoryakov, Adviser of RAS, both are prize-winners of the Global Energy International Prize, have visited the Conference.
 
According to Evgeniy Russkikh, head of Business Development Department, E4-SibCOTES, this Conference has become a unique place for professionals to share experience with both heir peers working in fundamental and applied science. The presentations covered new developments of high importance for establishment of new generation coal power industry. Some of them are more theoretical, while others are being implemented nowadays.
 
The participants could visit nine sections, i.e. ‘Solid Fuel Combustion Technology’, ‘Coal Deep Processing’, ‘Nanotechnology and Power Industry’ to name some of them. A considerable number of presentations was devoted to fuel combustion analysis performed with the help of various numerical modeling methods. But the special attention was given to Brian Spalding’s report, one of the forebears who applied these methods in power industry. In his presentation Mr. Spalding showed computer modelling results of heat transfer, flow and solid fuel combustion for boilers.
 
Currently, numerical modeling methods have been widely used in power industry, because we can obtain fast and precise results. ‘E4-SibCOTES applies cutting edge technologies in all its operating areas,’ Mr. Russkikh emphasizes, ‘including burners design, developing solutions for NOx emission abatement, solutions for power boilers operation reliability, etc.
 
The Solid Fuel Combustion Conference hosted a UMNIK (which literally means ‘Know-all’) section, or in other words, Participant of Youth Scientific and Innovative Competition programme. The prominent jury judged presentations of power engineering students and young scientists from the Institute of Thermophysics of Siberian Branch RAS. Their papers were devoted to innovations aimed to increase efficiency of coal generation operation.