The American Flame Research Committee (AFRC) have made the first announced and call for papers for their Spring 2002 meeting. The meeting will be held on May 8 - 10, 2002 and will be hosted by Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa.

The theme of the meeting is ‘Fuel Selection Issues for Industrial Combustion Processes - Meeting Environmental & Economic Objectives ‘ with the main areas of focus being:

• Industrial and power boilers
• Steel reheat furnaces
• Glass melters, cement & lime kilns
• Process heaters & flares - oil refineries and gas processing plants
• Combustion turbines & co-generation

Papers related to the above areas, which address issues such as innovative equipment, combustion optimization, technologies for lowering emissions, greenhouse gas reduction, numerical modeling, co-firing and reburn, non-traditional fuels, waste and renewables, are currently being sought.

Abstracts (single-page) should be submitted by November 30, 2001 to:

Dorothy Gordon,
1 Haanel Dr., 
Ottawa, ON, 
Canada K1A 1M1
Tel: +1 613 943 0812
Fax: +1 613 995 9584 
Email: dgordon@nrcan.gc.ca

Further information on the meeting is available from http://www.ifrf.net/flame-days/afrc.html and:

Eddy Chui,
1 Haanel Dr., 
Ottawa, ON, 
Canada K1A 1M1
Tel: +1 613-943-1774
Fax: +1 613-992-9335
Email: echui@nrcan.gc.ca

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