Wet way combustion

Information from the author (Rémi Guillet) on the book WET WAY COMBUSTION (Some books are yet available by touching directly the author at "guilletremi@yahoo.fr")

Abstract:
For many years, water has been used as an "additive" component to improve combustion efficiency, to boost power and even as an anti-knock agent. Today, the challenge is to find new ways to promote energy conservation and to minimize environmental impact...
The use of additional water offers an attractive response to this challenge of making optimum use of the qualities inherent to certain fuels, natural gas in particular.
Using a "wet combustion" technique , gas turbine efficiency can be increased substantially, resulting in a corresponding decrease in CO2 émissions and a significant reduction in NOX formation. Water vapor pumps, which perform combustion with a humidified combustion agent, offer outstanding energy efficiency and environmental performance.
In wet combustion techniques, three fluids are supplied to the process: the fuel, the oxidizing or combustion agent and water. The resulting flue gases leave the process enriched in water, which may undergo a phase change during the process. To simplify the analysis of these "three inlet combustion processes" a new way analysis method, using the wet bulb temperature of the flue gases as a basic parameter, is presented and many useful diagramùs are established...

WET WAY COMBUSTION contains the main information of the Remi Guillet thesis ( written in french language) "La combustion par voie humide et ses performances (Nancy 1 Univ. 2002 ; http://www.scd.uhp-nancy.fr/docnum/SCD_T_2002_0149_GUILLET.pdf). These information and specially the "water vapour pump exchanges" advantages presented in this book as a main wet way combustion application have been also recognized by Pr Valery Maisotsenko as being the "forerunners" of his M-Cycle developments.