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Dr. W. R. Livingston is Group Leader, Fuels and Chemistry at Doosan Babcock R&D. He is a Chemistry graduate (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) and has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham. After five years post-doctoral research at the University of Birmingham and Imperial College in London, he joined Babcock Energy Ltd. as a Senior Development Engineer in 1985. He has major research interests and experience in all fuel and chemistry-related aspects of the development, design and operation of fossil fuel-fired boilers and has particular interests in the characteristics and behaviour of fuel ashes and boiler tube corrosion processes, and in the combustion and co-firing of non-conventional fuels, including waste materials and biomass.
Mr. Livingston has been involved in biomass firing and co-firing projects at pulverized coal power plants in Britain and elsewhere since the late 1990s. He has been the British representative on IEA Bioenergy Agreement Task 32, Biomass combustion and co-firing, for around 10 years. |
