Hi I would like to ask the community if we can set up a post for a new energy system I have been working on ,I think it works out more efficient and ecologically better , and its large scale thinking for energy systems , and now I need to check through my figures and need the views of IET thinkers for instance on combustion , post combustion chemistry , it unfolds into quite a complex system which I have been working on for 8 years , but enables us to get more energy from wastes and perhaps helps to move to biomaterials. I have an interest as environmental thinker and have designed the system to go through to government funding phases and pretty confident it works well in a number of questions around energy and environmental thinking .
Fire is an oxidation process - a quick chemical reaction. Contrary to intuition - what burns (oxidizes) is not the fuel but the steam (gases) released from it. This means that there is no combustion at a temperature where the material is not at least partially in a gaseous state (that is, the rougher the closer to the vaporization temperature of the material, the more likely it is to burn). Therefore, volatiles at room temperature such as oil, fuel and alcohol are good combustion materials. That is, to start a fire you need to start with fuel and oxygen and a sufficiently high temperature and then a reaction between the oxygen in the air and the vapor of the fuel material is created. During oxidation, heat is released in the form of heat and visible light (most often seen as flames) and unseen light (outside the spectrum of the human eye). The color of the flames indicates the temperature of the fire; The color is actually photons emitted from the heated gas. High energy photons (= high heat) will give color near the upper range of the spectrum = blue and the reverse at low energies = red. Heat is an important component because it "sustains" the combustion process. Fire will erupt when fuel with oxygen supply (or other oxygen) is exposed to a high heat source. After the fire breaks out, it is able to "supply" the heat to itself as long as there is enough fuel and oxygen. Firefighters actually cool the fire with water thus preventing one of the necessary components for combustion. Another way to extinguish fires is to choke them by using carbon dioxide. Water is not a fuel, but at high temperatures it is forbidden (!!!) to extinguish fires with water. The high heat dissolves the oxygen-hydrogen bond and the free oxygen ignites the fire.
Fire is an oxidation process - a quick chemical reaction. Contrary to intuition - what burns (oxidizes) is not the fuel but the steam (gases) released from it. This means that there is no combustion at a temperature where the material is not at least partially in a gaseous state (that is, the rougher the closer to the vaporization temperature of the material, the more likely it is to burn). Therefore, volatiles at room temperature such as oil, fuel and alcohol are good combustion materials. That is, to start a fire you need to start with fuel and oxygen and a sufficiently high temperature and then a reaction between the oxygen in the air and the vapor of the fuel material is created. During oxidation, heat is released in the form of heat and visible light (most often seen as flames) and unseen light (outside the spectrum of the human eye). The color of the flames indicates the temperature of the fire; The color is actually photons emitted from the heated gas. High energy photons (= high heat) will give color near the upper range of the spectrum = blue and the reverse at low energies = red. Heat is an important component because it "sustains" the combustion process. Fire will erupt when fuel with oxygen supply (or other oxygen) is exposed to a high heat source. After the fire breaks out, it is able to "supply" the heat to itself as long as there is enough fuel and oxygen. Firefighters actually cool the fire with water thus preventing one of the necessary components for combustion. Another way to extinguish fires is to choke them by using carbon dioxide. Water is not a fuel, but at high temperatures it is forbidden (!!!) to extinguish fires with water. The high heat dissolves the oxygen-hydrogen bond and the free oxygen ignites the fire.
