A coal particulate emission study was performed in Salt Lake City,
Utah at the University of Utah's Combustion Research Center. This
study was performed in conjunction with Glen Cass' research group from
the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech). The ATOFMS and
Cal Tech's many filter samplers obtained coal emission particulate samples
from various coals burned in the Low Emission Boiler System-1500 (LEBS-1500)
as well as a brick kiln. These instruments sampled from Cal Tech's
dilution chamber, which allows for atmospherically relevant sample dilution.
The purpose of this study was to characterize various types of coal particulate
emissions both qualitatively as well as quantitatively with the ATOFMS
and Cal Tech's filter based instrumentation.
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Above, from left to right - Dave Suess, Jamie Schauer and Phil Silva. Dave and Phil were the graduate students in charge of Elwood while Jamie, a recent graduate from Cal Tech and now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, worked with the Cal Tech instrumentation.
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Here the Cal Tech workers are setting up the dilution chamber and changing some filter
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Above left: The two types of coal sampled were chunk coal (trays) and
pulverized coal (bag).
Above right: Some of the Utah workers, Dale and Bill, are moving the
pulverized coal to be loaded into the LEBS-1500.
This is the Low Emission Boiler, which burns coal at extremely high
temperatures upwards of 3000 degrees. Two tests were performed on
this system with pulverized Utah and Illinois coals.
This is the brick kiln in which numerous chunk coals from around the world, such as Indian and Chinese coal, were burned.
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Dave Wagner, the original builder and operator of the brick kiln, loads a coal sample into the kiln. Right
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Above are two chunk coals burning in the brick kiln.
Also shown are a Chinese coal brick and some tire pieces that were
burned.
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After many hard days of work with both the ambient and source study we decided to have a little cook-out and of course we sampled the emissions. The sampling inlet for the ATOFMS can be seen above the steak. Here Dave is ready and waiting for his tasty T-Bone:>
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