ENV-13-28 Proof of Concept Text for a Real-Time Flare Combustion Efficiency Monitor

Description:

Real-time monitoring or even periodic testing of combustion efficiency (CE) of industrial flares remains a void in the current combustion and air emission measurement technology landscape. Zeng and Morris presented a new concept to monitor the flare CE in the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) 2012 Environmental Conference in Denver, Colorado.1 The Zeng and Morris paper described the theoretic basis of the concept and demonstrated feasibility of the approach through theoretic simulation. Since then the authors have conducted a proof of concept test to further evaluate the feasibility through experiment. This work is also supported by the U.S. EPA through its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) 2013 Phase I grant. The experiment and the preliminary results of the test are presented in this paper.