Bradley R. Adams
President

Selected Publications and Proceedings

B.R. Adams, H.S. Shim, S.R. Wu, W.C. Chang, H.W. Chiao, S.L. Chen, "CFD Evaluation Of NOX Reduction Strategies In An Oil-Fired Furnace," The Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Nanjing, P.R. China, November 24-26, 2003.

Adams, B., Shim, H-S, Wu, K-T, Lee, H-T, Wan, H-P, Chen, S-L, "Evaluation of Biomass Syngas for Co-firing and Reburning in a Coal-Fired Boiler," US EPA/DOE/EPRI Combined Power Plant Air Pollutant Control Symposium: The MEGA Symposium, Washington, DC, May 19-22, 2003.

Cremer, M., J. Valentine, H. Shim, K. Davis, B. Adams, J. Letcavits and S. Vierstra "CFD-based development, design, and installation of cost-effective NOx control strategies for coal-fired boilers," The Mega Symposium: EPRI-DOE-EPA Combined Utility Air Pollutant Control Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2003.

Brown, D., Ma, J., Adams, B., "Development of an Improved Prediction Model for Chemical Process Furnaces," AIChE 2003 Spring National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 31, 2003.

Adams, B., "Role of CFD in Understanding Combustion: A Case Study," 2003 Electric Power Conference, Houston, TX, March 4-6, 2003.

Adams, B., Broderick, G., "CFD Modeling of NOx Reduction in an Oil-Fired Furnace," 2003 Electric Power Conference, Houston, TX, March 4-6, 2003.

M. Cremer, H. Wang, Z. Chen, K. Davis, B. Adams, L. Bool, H. Kobayashi, D. Thompson, "CFD Evaluation of Oxygen Enhanced Combustion in Coal Fired Boilers: Impacts on NOx, Carbon in Ash and Waterwall Corrosion," Electric Utilities Environmental Conference, 6th Annual Conference on Air Quality and Global Climate Change, Tucson, AZ, January 27-30, 2003.

Cremer, M., Adams, B., Boll, D., O'Connor, D., "Modeling and Demonstration of Rich Reagent Injection for NOx Control in AmerenUE's Sioux Unit 1," 2002 Conference Proceedings, Power-Gen International, Orlando, FL, December 10-12, 2002.

Cremer, M., Adams, B., Valentine, J., Letcavits, J., Vierstra, S., "Use of CFD Modeling to Guide Design and Implementation of Overfire Air for NOx Control in Coal-fired Boilers," Proceedings of Nineteenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23-27, 2002.

Adams, B., Cremer, M., Valentine, J., Bhamidipati, V., O'Connor, D., Letcavits, J., Vierstra, S., "Use of CFD Modeling for Design of NOx Reduction Systems in Utility Boilers," 2002 International Joint Power Generation Conference, Phoenix, AZ, June 24-26, 2002.

Adams, B., Bockelie, M., Cremer, M., Wang, D., Zhao, W., Chen, J.Y., "Techniques for Incorporation of Improved Chemistry in CFD-Based Combustion Modeling," Ninth International Conference on Numerical Combustion, Sorrento, Italy, April 7-10, 2002.

Cremer, M., Montgomery, C., Zhao, W., Adams, B., Eklund, D., and Chen, J.-Y., "Supersonic Combustion Simulations Using Reduced Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms," JANNAF CS/APS/PSHS/MSS Joint Meeting, Destin, FL, April 8-12, 2002.

Adams, B., Cremer, M., Wang, D., "Use Of CFD Modeling To Evaluate NOx Reduction Technologies In Utility Boilers," 2001 Conference Proceedings, Power-Gen International, Las Vegas, NV, Dec 11-13, 2001.

Adams, B.R., Wang, D.H., "NOx Emission in a Steel Reheat Furnace Firing By-Product Fuels," Paper IMECE2001/HTD-24229, presented at the International ME2001 Congress & Exposition, New York, NY, November 11-16, 2001.

Cremer, M., Wang, D., Montgomery, C., Adams, B., "Utilization of Reduced Mechanism Methods in CFD Simulations for Improved NOx Predictions in Utility Boilers and Furnaces," Joint AFRC/JFRC/IEA International Combustion Symposium, Kauai, HI, September 9-12, 2001.

Adams, B., Wang, D.H., Cremer, M., Frizzel, K., Conn, S., "Modeling NOx Reduction From Fuel Lean Gas Reburning and Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction Combined with Overfire Air at OMU's Smith Unit 1," US EPA/DOE/EPRI Combined Power Plant Air Pollutant Control Symposium: The MEGA Symposium, Paper 147, Chicago, IL, August 2001.

Cremer, M.A., Adams, B.R., Winegar, P.M., Lane, R., Facchiano, A., "Reduced Emissions Via Overfire Air Modifications in New York Power Authority's Charles Poletti Station," US EPA/DOE/EPRI Combined Power Plant Air Pollutant Control Symposium: The MEGA Symposium, Paper 297, Chicago, IL, August 2001.

Cremer, M.A., Adams, B.R., O'Connor, D.C., Bhamidipati, V.N., Broderick, R.G., "Design and Demonstration of Rich Reagent Injection (RRI) for NOx Reduction at Conectiv's B.L. England Station," US EPA/DOE/EPRI Combined Power Plant Air Pollutant Control Symposium: The MEGA Symposium, Chicago, IL, August 2001.

Denison, M.K., Adams, B.R., Lee, K.O., Park, S.M., Chen, S.L., "Modeling Burner Penetration & Wall Slagging in an Arch-Fired Boiler Co-Fired with Anthracite and Oil," Proceedings of The Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Seoul, Korea, Combustion Institute, June 24-27, 2001, pp. 462-468.

Adams, B., and Sarofim, A., "The Michael Heap Approach to Successful Combustion Modelling," 13th IFRF Members Conference, International Flame Research Foundation, Ijmuiden, Netherlands, May 2001.

Harding, N.S., Adams, B.R., "Biomass as a reburning fuel: a specialized cofiring application," Biomass and Bioenergy Vol. 19, Elsevier, 2000, pp. 429-445.

Cremer, M., Adams, B., Wang, D., Heap, M., "CFD Modeling of NOx Reduction Technologies in Utility Boilers," FACT-Vol. 23/HTD-Vol. 367, Combustion, Fire, and Computational Modeling of Industrial Combustion Systems, ASME, 2000, pp. 57-68.

Adams, B., Cremer, M., Wang, D., "Modeling Non-Equilibrium CO Oxidation in Combustion Systems," HTD-Vol. 366-5, Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer Division - 2000, ASME, 2000, pp. 29-34.

Adams, B.R., Heap, M.P. and Chen, S.L., "Use of Reacting CFD to Optimize Process Heater Performance," PVP-Vol. 397-2, Computational Technologies for Fluid/Thermal/Structural/Chemical Systems With Industrial Applications, ASME, 1999, pp. 17-26.

Adams, B., Heap, M., Shah, R., Bakker, W., O'Connor, D., "Modeling of NOx Reduction and Associated Operational Impacts in Cyclone-Fired Boilers," EPRI-DOE-EPA Combined Utility Air Pollution Symposium: The MEGA Symposium, Vol. 2: NOx and Multi-Pollutant Controls, August 1999, pp. 13-1 - 13-16.

Adams, B.R., Davis, K.A., Heap, M.P., Sarofim, A.F., "Application of a Reacting CFD Model to Drop Tube Kinetics and Smelter Simulations," Fluid Flow Phenomena in Metals Processing, El-Kaddah, Robertson, Johansen, Voller (eds.), The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 1999, pp. 93-100.

Chen, M-H, Shen, H-C, Hsieh, T-C, Adams, B.R., Heap, M.P. and Chen, S.L., "Improving the Performance of Process Heaters with Computer Simulation," Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Tainan, Taiwan, Combustion Institute, May 1999, pp. 558-562.

Adams, B.R., Heap, M.P., Smith, P.J., "Numerical Simulation of NOx Formation in Coal-Fired Cyclone Boiler," Seventh International Conference on Numerical Combustion, SIAM and Combustion Institute (British Section), York England, 1998, p. 104.

Bockelie, M.J., Adams, B.R., Cremer, M.A., Davis, K.A., Eddings, E.G., Valentine, J.R., Smith, P.J., Heap, M.P., "Computational Simulations of Industrial Furnaces," PVP-Vol. 377-2, Computational Technologies for Fluid/Thermal/Structural/Chemical Systems With Industrial Applications, ASME, 1998, pp. 117-124.

Adams, B., Heap, M., Smith, P., Facchiano, A., Melland, C., Stuckmeyer, K., Vierstra, S., "Computer Modeling of Cyclone Barrels," EPRI-DOE-EPA Combined Utility Air Pollutant Control Symposium, Joint Symposium on Stationary Combustion NOx Control, August 1997.

Smith, R., Boll, D. and Adams, B., "Cyclone Boiler Air Staging Demonstration Project Sioux Unit 2," EPRI-DOE-EPA Combined Utility Air Pollutant Control Symposium, Joint Symposium on Stationary Combustion NOx Control, August 1997.

Adams, B.R. and Harding, N.S., "Modeling of Wood Reburning for NOx Control," 1996 Joint Power Generation Conference - Vol. 1, Smouse and Gupta (Eds.), EC-Vol. 4, FACT-Vol. 21, ASME, pp. 445-454, Oct 1996.

Stuckmeyer, K., Adams, B.R., Heap, M.P. and Smith, P.J., "Computer Modeling of a Cyclone Barrel," EPRI NOx Controls for Utility Boilers Conference, August 1996.

Adams, B.R. and Harding, N.S., "Reburning Using Biomass for NOx Control," Biomass Usage for Utility and Industrial Power, Engineering Foundation Conference, Snowbird, UT, May 1996

Bockelie, M.J., Adams, B.R., Eddings, E.G. and Smith, P.J., "Simulations of High Temperature Reacting Flows for Industrial Processes," 5th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Soni, Thompson, Hauser, Eiseman (Eds.), NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulations, pp. 913-922, 1996.

Adams, B.R. and Smith, P.J., "Modeling Effects of Soot and Turbulence-Radiation Coupling on Radiative Transfer in Turbulent Gaseous Combustion," Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 109, 1-6, p. 121, 1995.

Adams, B.R. and Smith, P.J., "Modeling Effects of Soot and Turbulence-Radiation Coupling on Radiative Transfer in an Industrial Furnace," Radiative Heat Transfer: Current Research, Bayazitoglu, Crosbie, Jones, Skocypec, Smith, Tong, Thynell (eds.), ASME HTD-Vol. 276, ASME, New York, pp. 177-190, 1994.

Brown, D.J., Smith, P.J. and Adams, B.R., "Cracking Furnace Fireside Modeling Advances," AIChE 1994 Annual Spring Meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 1994.

Smith, P.J., Eddings, E.G., Adams, B.R. and Heap, M.P., "Application of Combustion Computations to Industrial Problems," Engineering Foundation Conference on Coal-Blending and Switching of Low-Sulfur Western Coals (eds. Bryers and Harding), ASME, New York, pp. 441-452, 1994.

Adams, B.R. and Smith, P.J., "Three-dimensional Discrete-ordinates Modeling of Radiative Transfer in a Geometrically Complex Furnace," Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 88, pp. 293-308, 1993.

Ma, K-L., Sikorski, K., Smith, P.J. and Adams, B.R., "Distributed Combustion Simulations," Energy and Fuels, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 902-905, 1993.

Adams, B.R. and Smith, P.J., "Modeling Effects of Soot on Radiative Transfer in Turbulent Gaseous Combustion," Paper 93S-24, Western States Section / The Combustion Institute, 1993 Spring Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 1993.

Adams, B.R. and Smith, P.J., "Three-dimensional Discrete-Ordinates Modeling of Radiative Transfer in Industrial-Scale Furnaces," Developments in Radiative Heat Transfer, Thynell, Modest, Burmeister, Hunt, Tong, Skocypec, Yuen, Fiveland (eds.), ASME HTD-Vol. 203, ASME, New York, pp. 137-144, 1992.

Adams, B.R. and Smith, P.J., "Three-dimensional Simulation of Thermal Radiation in a Geometrically Complex Furnace," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, M.H. Hamza (Ed.), ACTA Press, Anaheim, pp. 34-38, 1991.