The paper entitled Coal char combustion in O2/N2 and O2/CO2 conditions in a drop tube reactor: an optical study has been published today in the IFRF's online journal Industrial Combustion. The authors are Milena Rodríguez Avila, Markus Honkanen, Risto Raiko and Antti Oksanen of the Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Tampere University of Technology.

The IFRF Combustion Industry News brings together interesting and important stories about or affecting the combustion industry. The expanded articles below contain links to the original news item. Where news relates to IFRF Member Organisations, the names are shown in green with a link to their profile pages on the IFRF website.

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Business Trends

• Obama team adds clean coal to energy strategy
• Land acquisition and fuel shortage problems face much industry in India
• Japan on course to experience power shortfall over its summer
• Chinese steel production at a record peak in April
• German solar photovoltaic industry struggling after withdrawal of incentives

Legislation and Regulation

• South Korean parliament approves cap-and-trade plan for carbon emissions
• UK government proposes measures to reduce EU ETS red tape
• Indonesian Palm Oil Producers’ Association disputes US EPA palm-oil policy

Research, Development and Technology

• Norway opens Mongstad carbon capture and storage test centre
• Chinese and US companies form joint venture to promote clean coal technology

Company News

• Anglo American and Lafarge to sell cement plants and quarries
• Chevron agrees LNG contract with Tohoku Electric

And Finally…

• Fish-oil biofuel powering Finnish bus
• Dinosaur flatulence blamed for previous global warming periods