The combustion industry is increasingly focusing on reducing costs through use of inexpensive fuels and where possible, raw materials substitution.
CINAR simulates, designs and installs combustion and incineration equipment, burners and control packages. These activities include conventional aspects of fuel utilisation, environmental impact and economic considerations of heat conversion systems, as well as novel methods of substituting waste/biomass derived fuels for heat recovery.
 

Alternative fuels, characterised by a very broad range of physical and chemical properties, are utilised depending upon their availability, transportation and quantities (i.e., waste wood chips, tyre chips, whole tyres, plastic disks, diaper cubes, liquid waste and oils). These variations require extensive planning and permitting exercise, where CINAR regularly assists its clients through simulations as a function of changes to plant and operational conditions in order to assess perceived emissions and process implications.

CINAR shows the upper limits of alternative fuel substitution rates, their best injection locations, fuel mix preferences, deposit build-up potential, loss on productivity, as well as impact on NOx, alkali and sulphur cycles, damage to refractory lining, creation of localised hot-spots and unstable kiln operation.

CINAR, along with its industrial partners, is working on several major development programmes in order to promote schemes and methodologies for an integrated approach towards reduction of CO2 emissions through making use of carbon neutral fuels.