Patent ID: 7328132
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: F23N,G01N,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A method for quantifying the operation of a thermal system burning a fossil fuel having a heat exchanger/combustion region producing combustion products, the method comprising the steps of: operating a computer programmed with a mathematical description of the thermal system based on a closed-form solution, resulting in a programmed computer; obtaining a set of Choice Operating Parameters selected from the group consisting of: a Stack CO obtaining a fuel ash concentration selected from the group consisting of: a constant value of fuel ash, a predictable value of fuel ash, a measured value of fuel ash determined from a fuel ash instrument and a value of fuel ash determined from an explicit solution, as an obtained fuel ash concentration; and operating the programmed computer to obtain a complete As-Fired fuel chemistry, including fuel water and fuel ash, based on the mathematical description of the thermal system, the set of Choice Operating Parameters, and the obtained fuel ash concentration.