Combustion Software Inc

Combustion Expert
The Combustion Expert modeling tool can help users of industrial furnaces and other types of combustion equipment perform many useful calculations and analyses, including those needed to improve furnace efficiency, reduce stack emissions, perform a mass balance, calculate operating costs, or carry out an energy audit. It allows users to not only carry out a side-by-side comparison of fuel stoichiometry, heating values, stack gas emissions and furnace losses, but to print out mass balances and summary reports, as well. Users can explore various “what-if” scenarios related to changing fuels, variations in oxygen additions, modifications in foundry brick assemblages, and so on.

Combustion Expert v4
In order to make real improvement to the fuel economy of your process, you need to know the efficiency. Combustion Expert v4 software calculates the fuel efficiency, as well as the furnace efficiency and the over-all-process heat efficiency. It shows you how to adjust fuel and airflow for changes in temperature, barometric pressure and humidity so that the heat dissipated in the furnace remains the same. Using OPC or DDE communication with a PLC, you can see the furnace efficiency in real time, while you receive set points for temperature, mass flowrates or volumetric flowrates based on measured flows, temperatures, gauge pressures, barometric pressure and relative humidity. This new version can determine heating of boxed-shaped objects with radiative heat transfer, calculation of heat transfer coefficients, viewing factors, radiosity , gas emissivity and temperature distribution in bars or slabs. A report generator gives five different reports for heating values, mass balances, furnace losses, heat losses and process summaries.

Combustion Expert 3.2
One of the key benefits of Combustion Expert 3.2 is its ability to perform technical and economic evaluations when converting from oil- to natural-gas-fired furnaces or vice versa. These changes affect the flame temperature, air/fuel ratio, gas emissivity and the radiative heat transfer in the furnace. At higher temperatures, the heat transfer is almost always driven by radiation. These calculations are very cumbersome and difficult to make. However, with this software, these calculations can be done with a click of a mouse in a few seconds. The key to saving fuel is not only keeping records of what was paid/used for energy, which vary with production, energy costs, operating hours and operating conditions, but also knowing the current efficiency of the system.