Combustion of Pulverised Coal in a Mixture of Oxygen and Recycled Flue Gas

Acknowledgments

The work presented here is based on the work I conducted as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer at RWTH Aachen University between April 2004 and December 2010.

I am especially indebted to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhold Kneer (Chair of the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, RWTH Aachen University) for his professional and personal support and in particular for having constant confidence in my work.

I owe my gratitude to Dr. Joao Luis Toste de Azevedo for his willingness to act as assessor. Dr. Azevedo gave me the opportunity (after finishing my Ph.D. at the Technical University at Sofia) to work with several interesting research projects at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, and he contributed to ...