Prospects for Improving the Environmental Safety of Heat and Electrical Energy Production

Optimization of the designs of power plants for the production of thermal and electric energy using natural fossil fuels and artificial fuels obtained as a result of processing natural raw materials, water electrolysis technologies and the subsequent collection of hydrogen and oxygen as fuel cells for generating heat and electricity in power plants is considered. The results of radiation heat exchange in combustion chambers and heat exchange of multi-chamber boilers operating on gas and solid fuels and design solutions using hybrid technologies for the production of heat and electricity are analyzed. The problem of environmental safety and the means of its minimization on a global scale with the use of hydrogen as an environmentally safe fuel in steam boilers and combined-cycle power plants are considered. The use of high optical technologies to determine the temperature field, ingredient composition and microstructure of the dispersed phase of combustion products of energy fuels is considered.