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RECOM Services GmbH

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RECOM Services is a spin-off from the “Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Dampf-kesselwesen“ (IVD) at Stuttgart University in Germany. Since 1999 RECOM Services commercially applies 3D-combustion modelling for minimizing operating costs and technical risks in industrial furnaces and boilers. The company offers these engineering services to the power and process industry. The working areas include: Emission Control (NOx, CO, SO2, LOI/Unburned), Slagging and Fouling, Water Wall Wastage due to Corrosion, Fuel Mixing (Coal, Oil, Gas), Co-Firing of Secondary Fuels (e.g. Blast Furnace Gas, Sewage Sludge, Wood Dust, etc.).

The proprietary 3D combustion simulation code RECOM-AIOLOS, applied by RECOM and jointly developed with the Research Group at IVD, is a reliable, fast, and cost-effective tool for design optimisation and problem solving in the power and process industry. All the relevant sub-models for turbulent fluid flow, radiative/convective heat transfer, slagging/fouling and chemical reaction mechanisms to describe industrial scale combustion systems were developed using data of lab-scale and pilot-scale combustion experiments. The predictive quality of the code has been assessed thoroughly with full-scale experimental data of numerous measuring campaigns. A large number of velocity, temperature and concentration data from infurnace measurements of full-scale systems has been used to validate RECOM-AIOLOS predictions against real data from the field. RECOM-AIOLOS predictions are therefore highly trusted in the power industry.

For this particular project, RECOM Services is interested in expanding the applicability of the 3D-combustion modelling software RECOM-AIOLOS to a new cost-effective hardware, that enables to generate and simulate combustion models of significantly higher quality and complexity in the future.