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Show 4. Necessary calibrations and procedures were established to enable successful completion of the demonstration experiments. 2.4 Burn Demonstration Program For planning purposes, it was initially believed that daily experimentation would be limited to a maximum of four hours per day. However, this limit was extended to about six hours so that agreement was reached that the original plan of six days of testing could be compressed into five days. Based on the earlier results from the calibration burn, the boiler load for comparative fuel data was set at 28,000 pounds of steam per hour. The test program was established to be as follows: January 21 - Number 6 oil, Base data @ 28,000 and 56,000 lbs/hr January 22 - Refined Biomass January 23 - Refined Biomass, Visitor information and tour January 24 - Low Sulphur coal January 25 - Biomass/coal, 50-50 mix by volume Our initial plans for testing were to begin at 10:00 a.m., January 21st. Due to problems experienced by DER, the stack-sampling people, the first test of two-hour duration at twenty-eight thousand pounds per hour of steam flow did not begin until 12 noon. Prior to the test UCF had agreed to provide an oxygen analyzer to adjust furnace oxygen during each test. The analyzer was available, but it was agreed that DER could easily run an additional sampling line to the roof of the building from the furnace probe and simultaneously record these data. This procedure eliminated the additional instrumentation and provided a more consistent oxygen reading in the furnace taken by one party. It was also suggested that volumetric 26-16 |