The course content addresses the following topics:
- The principles and processes of combustion and combustion calculations
- Industrial combustion technologies (including chain grate, shell and water tube boilers, and fluidised bed boilers)
- Large-scale power generation technologies, including current and future forms of pulverised fuel injection (sub-critical, critical, and super-critical)
- Economic and technical impact of coal quality on industrial and power generation performance
- Emissions arising from combustion (including NOx, SOx, CO2 particulate matter; capture, mitigation, reduction, and elimination)
- By-product management (including coarse and fly ash)
- Economics of power generation and energy auditing
- Future technologies for energy production (including alternative sources of energy and hybridisation with renewables)