Rastko Jovanovic

• Dr. - Ing. of Mechanical Engineering
• Research Associate at Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences

Of all the fossil fuels in the world, the largest coal reserves are the most evenly distributed, and their mass exploitation ensures a stable and relatively low price on the international market, but coal contributes significantly to total greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions by increasing the energy efficiency of converting...

Homogeneity of the flue gas flow through the chamber of an electrostatic precipitator is one of the basic influencing parameter on dedusting efficiency. This paper presents results of a multiobjective optimization study of the flue gas controlling devices of electrostatic precipitator of 324 MWe lignite fired unit A4 of Thermal Power Plant "Nikola...

The perforated plates are commonly used for gas flow control in the wide-angle diffusers of electrostatic precipitators of large power plants. Many studies dealt with the investigation of the effects of the perforated plate?s geometry on flow parameters in the cases where incoming flow is perpendicular to the plate and the plate is covering the who...

To achieve the optimum dust removal performance of an electrostatic precipitator, the flue gas should be distributed uniformly over its vertical cross-section. The flow in the upstream flue gas ducts has a significant influence on the downstream gas distribution in the chamber of the precipitator. This paper presents the results of homogeneity asse...

In the present paper, we discuss implementation details of a free and open-source numerical solver based on the finite volume method for numerical simulation of viscoplastic non-Newtonian fluids. In addition to the fact that they are involved in many industrial applications, both their physical properties and their rheological behavior make them ch...

Greenhouse gases emission as well as total energy consumption in buildings of public importance, such as schools, municipal buildings, health care centers, can be significantly reduced by increasing buildings? energy efficiency. Buildings? energy consumption adds up to 37% of total energy consumption in the European Union countries. In the Republic...

In the present work, we investigated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals and ions of indoor and outdoor PM2.5 from 80 samples collected in the microenvironment of a kindergarten located in Belgrade city center during weekdays, from March to May 2010. The daily concentrations of PM2.5 were much higher than WHO guidance daily value. Resul...

A novel statistical model based on a two-layer, contact and information, graph is suggested in order to study the influence of disease prevalence on voluntary general population vaccination during the COVID-19 outbreak. Details about the structure and number of susceptible, infectious, and recovered/vaccinated individuals from the contact layer are...

Safe storage of pharmaceutical products is of great importance due to potential hazards for human health. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of pharmaceutical storage to recover design temperature during ventilation system recovery. The performed CFD simulations showed good agreement with experimental temperature measurements. Numerica...

The study presents a new modelling approach applied to hematite to magnetite reduction, which is the dominant reaction in atmospheres with a high CO2/CO ratio, expected in chemical looping combustion. The structure of the Fe2O3 particle was simulated using the percolation theory, while the reduction was modelled using the stochastic approach to sim...

Featured Application An ANN model successfully helped in harmonizing inputs from several instruments of different grade (low cost radon and lab grade particulate matter monitors) and enabled predictions of small ions concentration of comparable quality to the lab grade Gerdien type instrument. Abstract In this work we explore the relationship betw...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered to be major air pollutants with a strong negative influence on human health. Many of them are toxic with high carcinogenic potential. Children and school staff spend a significant portion of daytime at schools, mostly indoors. Therefore, the hypothesis can be made that air quality significantly...

Oxy-fuel combustion is the most promising carbon capture and storage technology, which eliminates carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and also decreases nitrogen oxides emissions thereby lowering global warming potential. In order to implement oxy-fuel combustion technology in full scale power plants, its costs, mainly connected with the a...

The electrostatic precipitator system of the lignite fired 350 MWe unit B1 of Thermal Power Plant Kostolac B has been modernized during 2014. The results of complex in site measurements, performed in the frame of performance control test at the beginning of the exploitation period of the upgraded electrostatic precipitator proved that, under normal...

Oxy-fuel coal combustion, together with carbon capture and storage or utilization, is a set of technologies allowing to burn coal without emitting globe warming CO2. As it is expected that oxy-fuel combustion may be used for a retrofit of existing boilers, development of a novel oxy-burners is very important step. It is expected that these burners...

New system for start-up and flame support based on coal gasification by low temperature air thermal plasma is planned to supplement current heavy oil system in Serbian thermal power plants in order to decrease air pollutions emission and operational costs. Locally introduced plasma thermal energy heats up and ignites entrained coal particles, thus...

New system for start-up and flame support based on coal gasification by low temperature air thermal plasma is planned to supplement current heavy oil system in Serbian thermal power plants in order to decrease air pollutions emission and operational costs. Locally introduced plasma thermal energy heats up and ignites entrained coal particles, thus...

A descriptive model for isolated char particle combustion under conventional and oxy–fuel conditions was developed. Suggested model is based on the percolation theory and Monte Carlo simulation technique. Char particle was modeled as a square lattice consisting of a large number of small sites. Sites correspond either to fixed carbon, ash, or pore,...

Novel model of coal particle combustion was developed. The aim of proposed model is to describe all possible mechanisms for particle combustion and their sensitivity to combustion conditions. (© 2013 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Oxy-fuel combustion is considered as a promising solution to reduce greenhouse-gases and pollutant emissions. The main advantage of oxy-fuel combustion over other technologies for pollution reduction from pulverized coal combustion is that it can be applied to the existing coal-fired power plants. However, switching from conventional to oxy-fired c...

It is expected that pulverized coal combustion will continue to play a major role in electricity generation for the foreseeable future. Oxy-fuel coal combustion is actively being investigated, as alternative to conventional pulverized-coal combustion, due to its potential to easier carbon dioxide sequestration. This paper presents experimental and...

The main aim of this paper is determination of influence of movable shutters mounted inside the air-coal channels on two phase flow velocity field and pulverized coal particle distribution along them. Totally, three characteristic numerical simulation tests are presented in the paper. In the first simulation all eight shutters have been in vertical...

The subject of this work is turbulent two-phase flow through air-coal channel(s) of complex geometry. The aim of this work is numerical optimization of fluid flow and coal particle distribution in reconstructed air-coal mixture channels. The single blade turbulator has been used to increase turbulence in the vertical section of an air-coal mixture...