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J. Scott Becker is retired from Air Products and
Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Wlodzimierz Blasiak, PhD, is head and professor in
the Division of Energy and Furnace Technology, Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has carried out
research on heat and mass transfer processes in boilers
and furnaces and has published around 200 papers since
1993. For the last ten years, the main research themes of his
work have been high-performance industrial furnaces,
high-temperature air combustion (HiTAC)/ameless
combustion for gaseous and solid fuel, high-temperature
air/steam gasication (HTAG) of biomass and wastes,
and oxy-fuel and ...