Rajender Gupta

Biography

Rajender Gupta is a professor belongs to the department of Chemical and Materials Engineering from the university of Alberta.

Research Interest

Research Areas: coal/biomass combustion and gasification; greenhouse gas emission mitigation; gaseous pollutants from coal combustion; advanced coal and biomass characterization techniques; mineral matter in coal and thermal performance of boilers; computer aided process design; heat transfer related projects Current research interests: Coal/Biomass Combustion and Gasification: self-ignition temperatures, single particle ignition and combustion modeling, modeling of volatile matter evolution, Furnace modeling (Development of CFD), modeling CFBC and In-Situ gasification. Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation: oxyfiring of coal used for capturing CO2 from fossil fuel combustion and sequestration of CO2 in unused coal mines. Gaseous Pollutants from Coal Combustion: mechanisms, emission and control of NOx, sox and fine particulate matter from coal/biomass combustion and gasification. Advanced Coal and Biomass Characterisation Techniques: characterising coal matter using automated full phase reflectogram. Characterising mineral matter using CCSEM/QEMSCAN and deposits using TMA. Mineral matter in Coal and Thermal Performance of Boilers: utilisation of the CCSEM data to predict ash deposition problems, Vaporisation of mineral species (based on Thermodynamic equilibrium), ash transformation, developing advanced indices for characterising coals, Ash deposition modeling. Computer Aided Process Design: synthesis and evaluation of flowsheets for clean coal technologies. Heat Transfer Related Projects: modeling of heat transfer in combustion chamber and across ash deposits, radiative transfer in coal fired boilers, scatter of radiation by ash particles, thermal properties of ash.