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A considerable diversity of solid fuel combustion equipment is available to industry, and it owes its evolution to various causes, in particular, the varying combustion characteristics of the available fuels and the widely differing types of plant to which the equipment is fitted. The competitive situation prevailing in the fuel market has given impetus to the development of new and more efficient combustion equipment and has led to less-effective designs being abandoned. Clean air leglislation has had the same effect. The present position is that for any solid fuel there is some appliance capable of burning it efficiently, but research and development continues with the aim of lowering heat production costs still further by refining existing combustion processes and exploiting new ones.
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Senior, J. (1971). Solid Fuel Combustion Equipment. In: Bell, P.C. (eds) Industrial Fuels. Mechanical Engineering Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01173-5_2
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