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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AND HAZARDS IN COMBUSTION Environmental effects and hazards in combustion ....................................................................................... 1 Fire safety. Protection and remediation .................................................................................................... 2 Fire safety education ............................................................................................................................. 2 Fuel detection ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Fire detection......................................................................................................................................... 5 Smoke detectors .................................................................................................................................... 5 Water sprinklers .................................................................................................................................... 5 Inert atmospheres .................................................................................................................................. 6 Fire-breaks and fire extinguishers ......................................................................................................... 6 Pollutant emissions ................................................................................................................................... 7 Emission quantification......................................................................................................................... 8 Fuel tank and crank-case ventilation ..................................................................................................... 8 Exhaust emissions and pollution ........................................................................................................... 9 Vibrations and noise............................................................................................................................ 14 Electromagnetic interferences ............................................................................................................. 14 Safety management ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Risk: a combination of hazard and damage ............................................................................................ 14 Emergency response ............................................................................................................................... 14 Analysis of accidents .............................................................................................................................. 15 Prevention of accidents ........................................................................................................................... 15 Glossary of terms: accident, exposure, fear... ......................................................................................... 16 ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AND HAZARDS IN COMBUSTION Combustion is a hazard, and, besides the many services it provides to humankind, it may cause nuisance (e.g. noise, smoke), damage to property (deformations, loss of strength, burnings and explosions), and damage to people (injury and loss of life). Damage may be ranked in top-down severity order as: a) loss of life (mortality), b) loss of health (morbidity), c) loss of property and d) loss of activity. Besides damage caused by the combustion process itself, there is also damage associated to the management of fuels (and oxidisers, if special). Coal handling produces respiratory hazards, and crude-oil derivatives are carcinogenic. Liquefied petroleum gases, LPG, and particularly cryogenic fluids like LNG, may cause severe frostbite and structural damage (carbon- and low-alloy steels show a marked ductile to brittle transition at freezing temperatures). Damage may be caused to individuals or to the environment in general. A general summary on safety management is included below; here, some techniques to minimise risks associated to combustion are studied. Combustion is a physico-chemical hazard, and, to minimise its impact, one has to be aware of it, rely on safer fuels (e.g. diesel instead of gasoline, natural gas instead of butane), reduce unnecessary fuel stores, avoid fuel leakages and provide fuel detectors, reduce uncontrolled ignition-sources (sparks and hot spots), decrease the impact of the controlled combustion processes (emissions), and plan for the best rescue actions in case of uncontrolled combustion (fire detection and fighting). As usual, pyrotechnics hazards (from amusement firecrackers to weaponry) are not considered under the combustion heading. A quick-summary of hazard types associated to combustion may be: Physical hazards: mechanical (explosion), thermal (excessive heat, out-range temperatures), radiation (blinding flare). Chemical hazards: oxygen depletion, gas poison, aerosols, liquid poisons, solid poisons. The effects of combustion on the environmental may be grouped in two categories: Sudden uncontrolled events (combustion accidents). This impact is fought with proper prevention (minimising risk and educating people) and proper fire fighting (smoke detectors, automatic fire- sprinklers, portable fire-extinguishers, fire-fighting brigades). Continuous degradation, due to pollutant emissions during normal combustion. This impact is fight by developing better fuels (sulfur-free diesel, unleaded gasoline), better combustion processes (fluidised bed, porous media) and post-combustion treatment (catalytic conversion). Only a descriptive view of the subject is here presented (some theoretical insight can be found on Combustion Kinetics). Thermal effects on materials in general, which may be originated from a combustion process, are presented aside. We have tried to follow a top-down approach in the analysis of the environmental effects of combustion, i.e. from deadly explosions to inconvenient electromagnetic interferences. Fire safety. Protection and remediation Fear of the fire has always frightened humans. Risks must be prevented first (minimising risk), their consequences foreseen (minimising damage), their occurrence appropriately handled (early warning, gateways, fighting), and the consequent damage allocated in justice. Contrary to common sense, there are many fires that are not fortuitous accidents but directly caused by irresponsible people, from children left playing with matches, to arson. People are the primary cause of all accidents. Again, education on fundamental principles, and not only instructions about particular items, is the best preventive measure. Fire protection can be achieved by passive means (using fire-resistant materials), or by active means (fire- extinguishers). The most effective protection is based on proper fire safety education. Minimising risk: fire safety education, inert atmospheres, smoke detectors and fire-doors. Minimising damage: fire-breaks, fire sprinklers and fire extinguishing. FIRE SAFETY EDUCATION Education is the best prevention. For every identified risk, plan a fire safety procedure (e.g. get a hose or a water bucket nearby when making an outdoor fire), and rehearse it (e.g. evacuate multi-store buildings once a year, even at a pre-established time; it teaches people and safety personnel a lot). Clean habits already help to prevent fires, since accumulation of waste (packing material, oily rags, rubbish) and even dust may be a fire hazard (old stores must be kept tidy, too!). Smoking is reported to be a major cause of fire accidents. Hazard types to humans (for goods there are only two concerns: either destruction by fire, or fire promotion): Toxicity of emissions, i.e. poisoning. The main toxic gas in combustion is CO; xCO>1% for 1 minute is mortal (maximum permissible 50 ppm); other toxic gases may be SH2 (xSH2>0.1% for 1 minute is mortal), SO2, CNH, HCl, NO2, NO, NH3. As a rule, hydrocarbon vapours in concentration >0.1% in volume (1000 ppm) cause eye irritation after some minutes, whereas >1% ppm produces unconsciousness after a few minutes. Smoke, i.e. particles and droplets aerosols, cause eyes and nose irritation and orientation lost (panic). Anoxia, i.e. insufficient oxygen (asphyxia means lack of pulse). Normal air has xO2=21%; above xO2=18% normal breathing can be sustained, but below xO2<15% muscle fatigue is noticeable, at xO2<10% reasoning stops, at xO2<5% consciousness stops. Breathable oxygen concentration range is 19.5%..22%; if <19.5% work with oxy-mask, if >22% risk of fire. Monitored by electrochemistry (ZrO2). CO2 is not toxic, just deprives of oxygen: adding >10% CO2 to air is mortal after 1 minute. Burning, i.e, dehydration and ablation of tissues, may range from mild skin burns to incineration, usually graded as first-degree burns (skin surface painful and red, a small blister), second-degree burns (large blisters on the skin), third-degree burns (destruction of both epidermis and fatty dermis; dry and painless), and calcination. Burning may be due to hot objects, a very hot environment, or direct flame contact: superficial skin burn (1st and 2nd degree) takes 6 hours at 45 ºC but 1 second at 70 ºC. Monitored by explosimeters (oxidation in a hot Pt-wire): ok if <10% LEL (), if >10%&<20% be on alert, if >20% leave the room. Suffocation and hyperthermia, i.e. inability to evacuate metabolic heat to the environment, resulting in heat exhaustion and heat stroke. At 40 ºC and 100% RH death follows after a few hours (but a steam- sauna, Turkish bath, at 40 ºC for a few minutes may be healthy; at 50 ºC and 100% RH death follows after a few minutes). At 120 ºC, even in the driest, death follows after a few minutes (but a dry sauna, Nordic sauna, at 90 ºC and less than 10% RH for some minutes may be healthy). Each fire is unique, but most domestic and industrial fires (explosions not included) have the following common characteristics: tbuildup=105 minutes, i.e. a build-up period of some 10 minutes after ignition, while sufficient heat is released for a thermal runaway; suddenly, oxygen is locally depleted and CO and HCN abound. The spreading of fire over a quiescent liquid-fuel pool (e.g. oil spillage) at room temperature is at some 0.1 m/s, and some 0.01 m/s over solid fuels. tmax heat=3010 minutes, i.e. the maximum heating taking place 3010 minutes after ignition Tbuildup=1100100 K, i.e. a maximum heating (maximum temperature relative to the ambient) of 1100100 K, what may be explained in terms of the fuel/oxidiser characteristics. Tresidual=700100 K, i.e. a residual slowly-decreasing heating of Tamb+700100 K, after one and a half or two hours after ignition. The ISO standard fire-event is just an exponential heating, T=Tamb+Alog(1+Bt), with A=345 K and B=8 min-1. There are some basic differences between open and enclosed fires: flame tip temperature, burning rate, pressure jumps, and, most important, the ceiling layer. Consider the same fuel in air geometry, e.g. a circular oil-pool fire of a 1 m2, in calm air, either outdoors, or indoors in the middle of say a 3∙3∙3 m3 room; if the enclosed fire is close to a wall, significant changes take place. In both cases there is a turbulent flame that completely fills the space above the fuel to some height (nearly independent of pool size for >1 m2), plus some flame tongues or flame tips going further up (some 2..3 m in total). In both cases the bulk region is at a nearly uniform temperature of 1100100 K, but the temperature at the flame tips is 65050 K in open fires and 80050 K in enclosed fires, due to the different heat radiation loss in each case. Open fires show larger burning rates because of better air supply; the values for a 1 m2 kerosene pool being 0.02..0.05 kg/(m2∙s) for enclosed fires and some 0.07..0.08 kg/(m2∙s) for open fires. Enclosed fires give way to significant pressure changes in the interior. Depending on openings and ventilation, of course, inside pressure suddenly rises some 0.2..0.8 kPa for a few minutes after fire builds up, due to the initial expansion of hot gases; then the pressure fluctuates around the original ambient pressure. If the fire is extinguished, there is a small underpressure of order 0.1 kPa for a few minutes (depending on ventilation), due to contraction on cooling of the hot gases inside. If the fire goes on and a flashover in the ceiling layer takes place, a sudden pressure increase occurs that may break windows or walls. The most important difference, however, is that, although in both cases the temperature slightly decreases with height further up the flame tips, and the vertical speed of gases also decrease due to air entrainment (from a maximum of up to 10 m/s), after a few minutes from ignition, enclosed fires build a hot ceiling layer that slowly increase temperature with time, due to the hindered heat losses, until the flashover temperature of 90050 K (typical autoignition temperature) is reached in the ceiling layer with the sudden burning of all combustible gases generated by pyrolysis and vaporisation of other combustible matter existing in the room. A two-zone thermal model, a uniform ceiling layer of hot gases floating over a floor layer of fresh gases and a narrow hot plume, exchanging mass and energy, is often used as a first stage in the analysis of enclosed fire development, before incurring on the expense of CFD codes. FUEL DETECTION A fire needs a fuel, an oxidiser (that is always available, ambient air), and an ignition source. Because ignition sources are commonly present (cigarettes, heaters, electrostatic sparks), fire safety starts by identifying and detecting fuel sources. Besides pyrotechnics and explosives, that must be specially treated, fuels may be classified as flammable substances (gaseous fuels and high-vapour-pressure condensed fuels) and combustible substances (low- vapour-pressure condensed fuels). Non-flammable combustible substances are of secondary concern to fire safety, since they will not be ignited by accidental sparks or distant flames; amongst them, only liquid fuels (particularly gas-oil and kerosene) are of special risk, and the emergency measures should be proportional to spillage and inversely proportional to flash-point temperature. The usual fuel-leakage detection method for combustible substances is visual inspection of liquid-fuel tanks. Flammable substances must be so labelled, and any uncontrolled treated as an immediate fire hazard with ample ventilation and evacuation. Flammable liquids (gasoline, alcohols, liquefied petroleum gases) and gaseous fuels are an obvious hazard since on a leakage occasion, they form ignitable mixtures with air during the process of mixing (and perhaps after full mixing, in closed spaces). Accidental ignition sources are so common (sharp knocks, electrical contacts, cigarettes, stoves and other hot points), that the risk of ignition is very high. Fuel-gas leakage detectors are also called explosimetres. They are usually based on the electrical resistance variation of a platinum wire, due to the temperature increase caused by rapid catalytic oxidation of the fuel-air mixture at room temperature in the surface of the catalyst. Portable system with field replaceable measuring cells are in the market capable of sensing minute concentrations of natural gas, butane and propane, either along pipes and combustor (gas leak), or in the ambient (explosimetres). Sometimes, to avoid explosions, it is not enough to have a quantity less than the lower ignition limit in a closed room, since very light fuels like H2 or very heavy gas fuels as diethyl ether (C4H10O) will stratify a lot. Mercaptan odorants are always added to gaseous fuels so that they can be detected by scent before reaching explosive levels. FIRE DETECTION Once a fire breaks out, it can be detected by different methods: Smoke detectors Flame detectors (infrared or visible) Heat detectors or, more generally, thermal detectors. The detector can be used to ring an alarm or directly fight the fire by active means, usually by water sprinklers, using low-melting-point or thermoelastic switchers (e.g. an aluminium rod that expands and breaks a glass stopper), or any other fire-fighting fluid. Some flame detectors and thermal detectors can be found in Combustion instrumentation or in Thermal effects on materials, aside. For thermal detection, care should be taken not to confuse fire with other inoffensive heating; fire alarms usually require a temperature above 60 ºC plus a heating rate above 1 ºC/min. SMOKE DETECTORS Smoke detectors are used to provide a quick alarm (acoustic at least) once a fire breaks out. They are usually combined with automatic water sprinklers (after a warning period of alert, since fire extinguishers always cause damage, and the smoke detector trigger might be due to a false alarm). Smoke detectors should be located in exposed areas of the room, and not in dead-air corners (a forced air convection is applied in spacecraft racks, for that purpose, and to enhance heat removal). There are two basic type of smoke detectors: Ionization detectors. They contain a very small amount of radioactive material (e.g. americium, a radioactive metallic element produced by bombardment of plutonium with high energy neutrons) that ionizes the air, making an electrical path, where an electric current is established. When smoke enters within the path, the smoke molecules attach themselves to the ions and the electric current changes, triggering the alarm. Photo-electric detectors. They contain a light source (usually a small bulb) and a photocell. When smoke enters within the light path, the transmissivity changes, triggering the alarm. WATER SPRINKLERS Automatic water sprinklers, connected to a wet-pipe system (only suited for areas not subject to freezing), provide both fire detection and suppression. They were introduced as back as the XIX c., and they are based on an operating element, a low-melting-point or thermoelastic device, that clears the water exit; water pressure pushes the sprinkler cap aside, and water is discharged only through sprinklers that have opened due to exposure to heat, all the others remaining intact. Water sprinklers are very reliable and safe (the chances of a sprinkler accidentally going off are remote) and minimise the water damage associated to fire fighting. In large systems, the flow of water out of the sprinkler system trips a monitoring device, typically a water flow detector, which activates a central fire alarm. Dry-pipe systems are essentially the same as wet-pipe systems except that the pipes in the protected area contain pressurized air, allowing for freezing temperatures. When a sprinkler head is activated by a fire, the pressurized air is released and water flow occurs. A new fire-sprinkler technology is based on delivering water at very high pressure (requires special pumping), producing a fine and high-efficiency water-vapour mist that maximize cooling, extinguishing fires with minimal amounts of water (a few litres for a typical room). INERT ATMOSPHERES Many industrial fires take place when handling flammable materials or when welding near combustible materials. Procuring a local inert atmosphere (i.e. depleting oxygen from the air) may be the best fire- prevention action, since it is impossible to get rid of combustible materials, and very difficult to get rid of ignition sources. In most circumstances, an inert atmosphere is one having xO2<5% (not to be confused with an under-lean atmosphere, which is one with less flammable vapours than the lower ignition limit for the fuel). The two basic inertisation procedures are: Nitrogen atmosphere, where the oxygen molar fraction in air xO2=0.21 is reduced below xO2=0.08 by adding nitrogen (nitrogen with 5% impurities, as obtained with selective permeation membranes, is good enough). Inert atmospheres are routinely used onboard crude-oil tankers, low flash-point chemical cargo ships, and fuel tanks; the largest nitrogen-generator producing 1.7 m3/s from air by membrane technology. Besides fire prevention, nitrogen systems are used as super dry (Tdew<200 K), non-freezing, non-oxidative, non-corrosive atmospheres. Burnt atmosphere, where the oxygen molar fraction in air xO2=0.21 is reduced below xO2=0.08 by adding exhaust gases from a combustor (the air/fuel relative ratio cannot be too large; up to =2 is good enough). For a tank to be really protected with an inert atmosphere, it must always have some overpressure, relative to the surrounding air. FIRE-BREAKS AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS Once a fire is noticed, an early alarm to trained personnel is most of the times better than a personal attempt to extinguish a fire. Small fires may be fought with fire extinguishers, but for large fires the first action must be to isolate the damage with fire-breaks. A fire-break is anything that stops a fire from spreading: a strip of cleared land in a forest, a masonry wall, a fire-retardant door, a hydraulic seal, etc. Materials are usually termed non-combustible if they cannot combine with oxygen at all or if their flash- point is higher than 1000 K, i.e., if when heated to 1000 K in a furnace for 3 hours, they neither self- inflame, nor can be ignited by a near spark (ISO 1182). But there are several other characteristics that make a material fire-resistant to different degrees. Fire-resistance tests are performed on building construction elements (ISO-384), vehicles, wires, industrial installations, etc. Extinguishers must be located near escape routes. Fires and extinguisher are classified according to the material that is on fire: solid, liquid, electrical or metal, although many extinguishers are good for several types of fire (and so are labelled; e.g. CO2, halons (R-1301 and R-1211), and their substitutives (FM-200 and Inertgen) are good for types A, B and C): Type-A fires involve ordinary solid combustible substances (coal, wood, cloth, rubber and many plastics), and can be extinguished with a cooling agent (water, foam, earth) to arrest the generation of fuel vapours. Beware of arrested solid fires; their embers remain hot inside for long, and may inflame many hours later by a blow of air. Typical hazards at home are cloth fires by cigarettes, stoves and unsafe playing with lighters and matches. These fires are smoky and cause disorientation and toxic fumes (remember: the air in a fire is cleaner at the floor). Type-B fires involve flammable liquids and gases (oil, gasoline, natural gas, GLP, paints, lacquers, grease, solvents), and are extinguished with an air-barrier dry-chemical (CO2, Inertgen, FM-200) and never with water (the fire would spread), with the advantage that they do not leave a mesh of foam. Typical hazards at home are fires at the kitchen by overheated oil or grease when cooking (covering with a lid is usually enough to stop the fire; do not carry the pan outside or throw water over). Sometimes, liquids are called flammable only if their flash-point is below 48 ºC (that of diesel), the rest being called combustible liquids. Type-C fires involve electrical potentials (wiring, fuse boxes, energized electrical equipment), and must be extinguished with an electrically insulating air-barrier (e.g. CO2; water may cause electrocution). Type D fires involve metals such as magnesium, aluminium, iron, titanium or sodium; they are very dangerous and should not be handled by untrained personnel. As for refrigerant fluids, the standard fire-extinguisher fluids during the last half of the 20th century were CFC and had to be substituted in the 1990s by non-ozone-depletion fluids. the liquefied gas Halon 1211 (CF2ClBr, bromochlorodifluoromethane), and the compressed gas Halon 1301 (CF3Br, bromotrifluoromethane), have been substituted by FM-200 (R227, C3HF7, heptafluoropropane), and Inergen (IG-541), a mixture of N2, Ar and CO2. Powder fire extinguishers are loaded with NaHCO3 powder and a pressurised CO2 cartridge that, when triggered, pushes down and expels the powder as a fine mist that dissociates to CO2 and H2O in contact with the fire, and which penetrates everywhere (the mesh they create may outbalance their use in small fires). CO2 fire extinguishers are loaded with liquid CO2 that, when the valve is triggered, is expelled from the bottom through a riser pipe and finally expanded at the end of the high-pressure hose, where the liquid flashes to a mist of dry-ice particles and CO2-gas, focused along a long funnel (that may become very cold and should not be touched). Fire engine trucks carry an extensive assortment of tools and equipment: pumps, hoses, water tanks, portable extinguishers, ladders, axles, breathing apparatuses, communication equipment, electric lights and generators, etc. They are used to fight domestic, industrial and forest fires, but the latter usually requires straightforward measures as firebreaks (removing further fuel ingest), spreading chemicals that decrease the flammability of wood, flooding with water, or spreading smothering materials such as dirt or sand. Pollutant emissions Life is a polluting process, because life must live at the expense of the environment. The problem is that the amount and concentration of pollutants emitted by human activities has gone too far and seriously menace life, both locally and globally. The first and traditional approach to fight pollution is to go away or throw it away, e.g. to make a chimney for venting the fireplace, to have out-side-air sealed combustion boilers, to build power stations aside, etc. The effects on the environment are usually identified with pollutant emission through the tail-pipe of combustors, but handling of fuels, fuel losses at the inlet, and product losses from the combustor shell, are other sources (up to 20% of the hydrocarbon emissions in a car do not go out along the tail-pipe). Mass losses and energy losses may be a danger to humans, animals, plants and goods: explosion danger (in confined places), open flame danger, toxicity from CO (and other toxic gases in chemical fires), suffocation or anoxia from CO2, hyperthermia by heat, respiratory and visual irritation by smoke and noxious gases, etc. Mechanical pollution (noise) and electromagnetic pollution (interferences, EMI), are dealt apart. Main contaminants, besides the unavoidable CO2 in carbon-containing fuels that contribute to the greenhouse warming (the legacy left by these emissions would be felt mainly by our offspring), are: VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), CO, NOx, SOx, and particulate matter (PM, or PM10 to explicitly restrict to sizes <10 m). Soot is formed in non-premixed flames and on premixed flames for equivalence ratios >1.5. Diesel engines produce more pollutants in the stated order (more PM and less VOC), whereas Otto engines do just in the reverse order. Some 40% of man-produced VOCs come from transport (not only through the tail-pipe but from reservoirs and at the stations). Sometimes, instead of VOC, the term HC (hydrocarbons) is used, even splitting between methane and NMHC (non-methane hydrocarbons). EMISSION QUANTIFICATION Quantifying emissions is not a trivial issue and several methods can be followed: Mass-to-mass emission indices, EIi, defined as the mass of i-contaminant emitted divided by the mass of fuel burnt. Although a dimensionless ratio, units of g/kg are common. This measure is independent of the application at hand and the dilution applied, thus it does not enter into considerations of the actual effects of the emissions or the real need of the process, but it is the best method from the combustion point-of-view to quantify emissions. Mass-to-energy emission ratio, EERi, defined as the mass of i-contaminant emitted divided by the energy supplied by the fuel burnt. It is intended to weight the burden against the benefit of the combustion process, but great care must be paid to ascertain if the energy supplied is just the heating value of the fuel burnt, or the final energy delivered to the payload (shaft work for combustion engines, or water heated energy for boilers). This ratio serves to compare pollution from other energy sources different to combustion, but with little relevance since the emissions are so different (e.g. nuclear vs. fossil power stations). Mass-to-purpose, e.g. mass-to-distance travelled emission ratio, DERi, defined as the mass of i- contaminant emitted divided by the distance travelled. It is intended to weight the burden against the real benefit of the combustion process, but great care must be paid to measure the benefit; of course, the goodness of transportation is not the power of the engine but the distance the payload travels; but time is also important, and the payload is not fixed beforehand (e.g. distance- emissions ratios are given for a car in a given trajectory, city cycle or highway, irrespective of the number of actual occupants). To give an idea of the pollution in a major city, the average figures for measured values in Madrid are: 1000 g/m3 of CO, 70 g/m3 of NO2, 1000 g/m3 of CO, 40 g/m3 of PM10, 30 g/m3 of O3 and 20 g/m3 of SO2. FUEL TANK AND CRANK-CASE VENTILATION Up to 20% of the hydrocarbon emissions in a car may not go out along the tail-pipe but directly from the fuel tank, the crank-case and other fuel leakages. Fuel leakage can be detected by several methods. For condensed fuels the key leakage diagnostic is spillage tracking, whereas for gases, bubbling (usually by applying a soap solution), UV-fluorescence, ultrasonic, and catalytic methods are used. Fuel tanks are pressurised only for gaseous fuels; liquid-fuel tanks are not pressurised but ventilated to prevent build-up of pressure and facilitate refuelling. Nowadays, liquid-fuel tanks are no longer directly ventilated to the ambient but through an active-carbon filter (canister) that retains the fuel vapours; during normal engine operation, some fresh air is passed through the canister to the admission pipe to burn the vapours and regenerate the filter. The crank-case (oil box) is also ventilated to the admission pipe, because there is an important fuel loss from the combustion chamber to the oil box through the slipping rings, particularly during cold operation (at starts). EXHAUST EMISSIONS AND POLLUTION The complete combustion of CuHvOwNx fuels would only yield CO2 and H2O as new compounds. Water is thought to be processed globally by the hydrological cycle (although local condensations may be corrosive and be the best culture for moulds and bacteria), but CO2 is already considered a pollutant due to the overall green-house-effect contribution if non-renewable fuels are used. We intend here to analyse pollutants going out the exhaust pipe of mobile and stationary combustors that, although in concentration much lower than CO2 and H2O (typically less than 1%), have a great impact on the environment. Combustion processes where non-commercial fuels are burn (e.g. wild fires, waste incineration, rocket propulsion) give off many more hazardous contaminants not considered here: halogenated (dioxines, furanes, hydrogen chloride), organometallic and others.. Just in EU, the annual emission of CO2 is some 31012 kgCO2 (40% due to electricity generation, 30% due to transport engines, and the rest to industrial and other activities), and is stabilised (other emissions are slowly declining: 15109 kgVOC, 15109 kgNOx, 10109 kgSO2, etc.). A major milestone in world pollution control was achieved in the Kiotto-1997 protocol, where a target on anthropogenic greenhouse gases emissions of less than 5% the 1990 world figures was established for 2008. Environmental pollution locally depends on the amount and type of industrial activities, density and age of vehicle fleet, efficiency in combustion, weather conditions, climatology, etc. In most developed countries, the transport sector is a major source of air pollution (amongst it, road transport takes more than 80%), and the dominant source in urban areas. Continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) is mandatory in most major combustors. Exposure to air pollution can cause adverse health effects, most acute in children, asthmatics, and the elderly, and can damage vegetation and materials (notably, the cultural heritage). ICE are responsible for nearly half of the world contamination load. About 1 % of the exhaust gas stream is harmful, and consists of carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOC, also named hydrocarbons: HC) and particulate matter (PM). In premixed combustion, emissions depend upon the air-fuel ratio, but unfortunately when the concentration of CO and HC decreases the concentration of NOx increases, and vice versa. Non-premixed combustion may be much more pollutant: the flame sits near the stoichiometric diffusion-rates and thus its temperature is very high, causing the formation of NOx, and the pure fuel approaching it gets pyrolysed with large production of soot (that give the characteristic yellow colour to non-premixed flames) and other volatiles. CO2 Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an unavoidable emission in the combustion of carbon-containing fuels. There is little concern with local contamination by CO2 emissions, being an inert gas like nitrogen. Like nitrogen, it may cause local suffocation; a 10%CO2 is fatal to a person after a few minutes, by anoxia, and a 5% already produces troubles after 1 hour. The main concern of CO2 emissions is at global scale, with the positive correlation found between anthropogenic CO2 generation and the increase of CO2 fraction in air (e.g. from 310 ppm molar in 1950, to 380 ppm molar in 2007), and the foreseeable consequences on climate change due to the associated increase in the global greenhouse effect, which is feared to be highly non-linear, with a small global warming but larger regional changes (desertification, floods, hurricanes, and so on. There are two ways to decrease CO2 emissions: to decrease overall emissions by increasing the energy efficiency of the combustor, engine and associated transmissions, and to use low-C fuels (shift from coal with C/H=1.3 and liquid fuels with C/H=0.5, to GLP and, better, to natural gas with C/H=0.25, and eventually to H2 with C/H=0). However, the foreseeable reduction in CO2 emissions seem not enough, and technologies to capture the CO2 before it goes to the atmosphere must be applied in the near future. Use of CO2 as by-product to other industries is too small: as a chemical stuff for methanol and urea synthesis, as an inert gas in welding and inertization of large fuel installations (dry stoichiometric exhaust gas from a combustor is the cheapest choice), CO2 is used to help recover residual crude-oil at some wells, as a refrigerant (including dry ice applications), as a solvent in the cleaning industry, in the preparation of carbonated beverages, etc. The only way out is then CO2 capture (or sequestration), and permanent disposal in deep soil reservoirs (deep-sea disposal seems too risky, environmentally). CO2 capture may be based on different approaches: Capture the emitted CO2 from conventional sources. This is impractical once the CO2 is diluted in the atmosphere (x=0.04% molar), and seems impractical too in transport, but is being tried in large coal-fuelled power stations (with x=0.15..20% molar). Physical separation (by membrane technology, cryogenic distillation, or sorption) is presently too expensive, but chemical separation has made good progress in the carbonatation-calcination process (CO(gas mix)+CaO=CaCO, followed by CaCO+heat=CaO+CO). Capture the emitted CO2 in a better way by modifying the combustion process, to be performed with pure oxygen what is known as oxy-combustion, yielding a pure CO2 exhaust, or a CO2 / H2O gas mixture easily separated by water condensation. To avoid too high temperatures, CO2 is always partially recirculated. To get pure oxygen from air, traditional cryogenic distillation or membrane separation may be used, although new approaches are been tried, as using an intermediate metal that gets oxidised, separated, and then reduced to yield pore O2 and the regenerated metal Fuel decarbonisation before combustion, i.e. capture the carbon (in the form of C, CO, or CO). This has no sense for coal, which is some 85% by weight C, but a possible solution for natural gas (e.g. a reforming stage can be used to decompose CH4=C+2H2, get rid of the solid C, and change to a hydrogen economy. An indirect way out CO2 capture is to reforest, for the trees to fix the atmospheric CO2 into biomass (which can be later used as fuel source or not). Some other large scale 'enhanced natural ways' to get rid of CO2 have been suggested, as promoting carbonatation of marine biota, seeding the sea-surface with iron particles, and so on (it is a fact that only a third of the CO2 emissions accumulate in the atmosphere, the rest being captured by the oceans). CO Carbon monoxide (CO) is found in exhaust emissions due to a poor combustion process (i.e. too rich a mixture, unburnt fuel pyrolises at crevices, or not enough residence time for equilibrium), particularly in the Otto engine at cold starts, idle, and full power conditions. Unburnt pyrolysed fuel would be in negligible amounts if sufficient time for equilibrium at the low exit temperatures were allowed, as in large combustion chambers and large marine engines, where the residence time is near one second (combustion is similar to eating; it takes time for a good digestion, starting by proper food preparation, chewing and so on). CO is a deadly poison that reduces the ability of the blood to absorb oxygen and, as a result, lowers the blood oxygen content by producing carboxyhemoglobin. Even as low a proportion as 0.5 percent by volume of CO in the air can prove fatal within 1 hour (>50% carboxyhemoglobin in blood), 0.05% produces headache after 10 hours (10% carboxyhemoglobin in blood). In uncontrolled fires, like in a hotel room, typical concentrations of up to 5% are achieved after the fire runs away of control. Measured in the blood. For clean air standard EU sets a limit of 10 mgCO/m3 in a 8 hours average. Two types of approaches may be followed to fight CO emissions (besides minimising fuel use): to avoid CO formation inside (e.g. using stratified charging), and to eliminate the CO inside the tailpipe, usually by a catalytic oxidiser (e.g. the tree-way catalyser in Otto engines). CO and CO2 are usually measured by infrared absorption. NOx NOx stands for all nitrogen oxides, mainly NO and NO2, but also N2O, N2O2, N2O3, N2O4 and N2O5, and all appear from atmospheric nitrogen during combustion with air (coals and heavy fuel-oils have some intrinsic nitrogen also, up to a few percent by weight). All nitrogen oxides are unstable at ambient conditions when pure, i.e. they dissociate, but their decomposition may be very slow. They are formed at very high temperatures in the presence of air (there is a high peak in the range =1..1.1), and two approaches are followed to avoid their emission: avoidance of high temperature formation (by using very lean mixtures, exhaust gas recirculation, porous burners, catalytic burners, water injection), and catalytic reduction at the exhaust. Notice that the peak in NOx production practically coincides with the range of maximum combustion efficiency (minimum entropy production), so that it might be said the NOx emission is a sign of good combustion, contrary to unburnt emissions. The most polluting of NOx-components is nitrogen dioxide, NO2, a brown gas at normal conditions (but readily condensable, Tb=11 ºC). When heating an ampoule containing NO2 from above, some dinitrogen tetroxide N2O4 (2NO2=N2O4(g)+57 kJ/mol) is exothermically formed; N2O4 is a colourless heavier gas that appears at the bottom (because of buoyancy), although the reaction would be more displaced to the left in equilibrium at high temperature (but kinetics dominates). A third gas appears when heating at 600 ºC, nitrogen oxide, NO (N2O4=2NO+O2, also transparent. Nitrogen oxide, NO, is a colourless gas that in the presence of atmospheric oxygen, rapidly converts to yellow NO2; NO concentration can be measured by chemiluminescence with ozone: NO+O3=NO2+O2+h. NO2 smells pungently and causes pronounced irritation of the respiratory system if > 10 ppm, and is fatal if >100 ppm after minutes; due to the fact that it destroys the lung tissue, for clean air standard EU sets a limit of 40 gNO2/m3. When NO2 or N2O4 are cooled, a blue liquid condensate first develops (a strong mixture of N2O4 in NO2), and after further cooling, a blue solid appears, mainly consisting of N2O3. N2O is a powerful greenhouse gas. Atmospheric ozone, O3, is another pollutant (contrary to stratospheric ozone), and, although not directly emitted in combustors, it is formed by reaction with air of NOx emissions. Nitrogen oxides also combine with water vapour to form acid mists (pH<5.6 at 288 K) that give way to acid rain, damaging forest, lakes and rivers ecosystems, one of the key reactions being NO(g) + (3/4)O2(g) +(1/2)H2O = H+(aq) + NO3-(aq). Two types of approaches may be followed to fight NOx emissions (besides minimising fuel use): to avoid NOx formation inside by avoiding high temperatures (e.g. using lean mixtures, using exhaust recirculation, using water-emulsified fuel), and to eliminate the NOx inside the tailpipe, usually by a catalytic reductor (e.g. the tree-way catalyser in Otto engines, the urea catalyser in Diesel engines). NOx concentration may be measured by chemiluminescence or by infrared absorption. Some amount of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), typically in the range 10..20% (but up to 50% for small loads) is currently applied in all kind of new engines (Diesel and Otto). VOC VOC are unburnt fuel and pyrolysed fuel, a group of chemicals that includes important air pollutants like benzene, 1,3 butadiene, and acrylic aldehyde (CH2CHCHO, deadly if >10 ppm), that is the cause of the bad smell from tail-pipes. From uncontrolled fires, with typical solid substances as wood, wool, plastics and flesh, very toxic substances are released, as hydrogen cyanide (HCN, deadly if >0.3%, and found up to 0.1% in typical home fires), ammonia (NH3, deadly if >0.3% in half an hour), hydrogen sulphide in rubber and flesh burning (H2S, deadly if >0.1%), and phosgene from PVC burning (COCl2, deadly if >0.1 ppm). For clean air standard EU sets a limit of 5 gC6H6/m3. VOC is a cul de sac, comprising all chemical emissions except the singled-out H2O, CO2, CO and NOx; and the expected trend is to go on with the singularisation of emitted substances, since there have widely different effects on the environment. In that move, separate analyses have been already applied to natural gas combustion, classifying its VOC (or gaseous HC) as methane and non-methane (MHC and NMHC). Other approaches split further the bunch of substances identifying e.g. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene), and others, as the more dangerous to health. VOC (and CO) emissions should be very low for premixed combustion with excess air (even with stoichiometric air), but Otto engines are the major source of them because of the small residence time (some milliseconds for combustion, against near one second in premixed industrial burners), and the associated small size of the combustion chamber (limited to say half a litre per cylinder for this fact). The most pollutant are the small two-stroke Otto engines used in motorcycles and gardening, because the fresh mixture is directly thrown to the exhaust to sweep the burnt gases in the cylinder. By the way, for reciprocating engines, VOC are not only due to the fuel but to the lubrication oil that seep through the segments and gets burnt (in the small two-stroke engines oil is add directly to the fuel). Two types of approaches may be followed to fight VOC emissions (besides minimising fuel use): to avoid VOC formation inside (e.g. using stratified charging), and to eliminate the VOC inside the tailpipe, usually by a catalytic oxidiser (e.g. the tree-way catalyser in Otto engines). VOC may be measured by flame ionisation or by infrared absorption. PM Particulate matter (PM, or PM10 to explicitly restrict to sizes <10 m) is harmful to the respiratory system for sizes smaller than say 10 m (larger particles do not follow the air stream and get stuck at the nose and trachea), but the worst are sizes <2 m. Particulate matter consists of soot from all kind of hydrocarbon combustion (mainly in non-premixed flames), and fly ash from coal and waste combustion and incineration. Premixed combustion starts producing soot for air-to-fuel relative ratios <0.5 or 0.6, depending on the fuel. Particulate matter was also characteristic of diesel engines at low loads (e.g. during acceleration), due to very inefficient burning of fuel drops on cold surfaces, with a dense dark smoke at the exhaust. Remedies have been the elevation in fuel-injection pressure (up to 200 MPa), preheating of air, and exhaust filtering. Nowadays, a non-visible-smoke exhaust is mandatory in practically all types of engines (even for ships). Tobacco smoke, incense burning, charcoal grills and the like, are well-known sources of particulate matter associated to combustion (as well as some related processes as deep frying), but emphasis here is on engineering applications. Finer particles, of sizes smaller than 2.5 m (named PM2.5), are even worse than PM10; they are issued from combustor exhaust, but also form by atmospheric reactions of NOx and SO2 emissions (forming nitrates and sulphates). Two types of approaches may be followed to fight PM emissions (besides minimising fuel use): to avoid PM formation inside (e.g. using homogeneous mixture compression and suitable injection rates), and to eliminate the PM at the exhaust by an appropriate filter, that should be periodically regenerated (e.g. by passing hot gases rich in oxygen, as done in Diesel engines). PM and smoke are distinguished by the measuring method: PM is measured by weighting a filter, and smoke by light absorption. For clean air standard EU sets a limit of 20 g/m3 for sizes <10 m. SO2 Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions mainly depends on type of fuel and not on combustion details, and the trend has been to get off the market sulfur-containing fuels (by desulfurising those that need it), or implementing desulfurising agents in fluidised-bed combustion (e.g. adding lime for CaO+SO2+2H2=CaSO3·2H2O, or limestone), or in the exhaust (deSOx dry or wet scrubbers). Nowadays only very large marine engines and large power stations still burn sulfur-containing fuels (residual fuel oil and coal, respectively), causing severe local and global pollution (acid rain); even in 2005 the IMO- MARPOL limit on marine fuel is 4.5% in sulfur (down to 1.5% in special areas like in EU seas). Power plants alone contribute to 2/3 of SO2 global generation in 2000 (and 1/4 of NOx and 1/3 of mercury, from the fuel). SO2 has been shown to have detrimental effects on the selective reduction of NOx with ammonia (SCR and SNCR), by formation of the highly corrosive ammonium bisulphate, although the dirty exhaust associated to the combustion of sulfur-containing fuels usually prevents the use of catalysers. Emission regulations In the European Union, exhaust emission limits and their testing are regulated: 1992 Euro I (adoption of catalytic converters), 1997 Euro II, 2000 Euro III and 2005 Euro IV. Table 1 presents the typical emission rates of new (2000) cars, as per-distance travelled. Table 2 compares these internal combustion engines with other power-producing devices, in a per-shaft-energy basis. Notice that a typical car running at 100 km/h demands a propulsive power of some 20 kW, consuming thence 1 kWh of work every 5 km or so. In the USA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the organism in charge of protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment, and thus responsible for emission control. Table 1. Typical emission rates of new (2000) cars a. Otto Otto (tree-way cat.) Diesel Diesel Exhaust manifold Emissions Exhaust manifold Emissions * (wet basis) (wet basis)b CO2 8..10% >120 g/km 4% >100 g/km CO 0.1..1% >0.2 g/km 0.1% >0.05 g/km VOC 0.5..1% >0.03 g/km 0.5% >0.03 g/km NOx NO: 100..1000 ppm >0.01 g/km NO: 100..1000 ppm >0.2 g/km NO2: 10..30 ppm NO2: 10..30 ppm PM <0.001 g/m3 <0.001 g/km >0.01 g/m3 >0.01 g/km a Stationary engines have tighter emission regulations (e.g. CO<700 ppm, NO x<250 ppm, or NOx<400 ppm for biogas engines). b Water molar fraction in Otto engine exhaust is some 15%, and in Diesel engines some 7%. Table 2. Typical emission rates and fuel consumption of different power engines, in g/kWh a. Coal Steam Diesel ICE Diesel ICE Gas Turbine Gas Turbine Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell Power Plant Euro IIIb with catalyst Oil-fired NG-firedc NG-fuelled CO2 800 500 600 800 600 450 CO 5 10 VOC 0.8 2 NOx 1 5 0.4 0.7 1 0.004 PM 0.1 0.1 0 SO2 3 0 0.05 0.08 0 Fuel-in >400 >170 >170 >200 >200 >120 a Notice that specific fuel consumption is the inverse of specific energy output (e.g. 200 g/kWh = 18 MJ/kg). b Marine diesel (>150 kW engines) NOx 2000-regulation <10 g/kWh (up to 17 g/kWh for very low engines, below 200 rpm). c Gas Turbine NOx 2000-regulation <5 ppm in the exhaust. VIBRATIONS AND NOISE Combustion generates acoustic waves due to shear flows and turbulent fluctuations. This aerodynamic noise, besides the possible mechanical noise associated to oscillating or vibrating solid parts in combustors, is a source of environmental pollution. In reciprocating engines in particular, exhaust gases leave the cylinder under high pressure that, if allowed to escape to the atmosphere directly, would create an unbearable loud noise. That is why muffler silencers are installed in all exhaust pipes for sound attenuation. ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCES In spite of the undeniable fact that combustion pollution is mainly due to tail-pipe chemical emission (CO, NOx, VOC and PM), the electromagnetic contamination due to operation of electrical and electronic devices in reciprocating engines keeps increasing since the old days (1897) when the magneto substituted the open-flame hot-tube ignition system in Otto engines. SAFETY MANAGEMENT Risk: a combination of hazard and damage Humankind has always evolved in a risky environment, plenty of possible sources of injury (hazard), and different levels of possible impact (damage). We cannot envisage life without risks (it might turn that risk is a native ingredient in life evolution), but we must be aware of risks and try its optimum management, accepting minor risks and injuries as natural events (e.g. freely using glassware, cutlery, matches..., but restricting the use of powerful machinery, or flammable materials and explosives). The basic rule in risk management is that "the higher the possible damage, the lower the acceptable hazards", always realizing that we cannot devote our life to risk prevention (e.g. most minor accidents and unsafe exposures are recoverable, and bald remedies requiring a century are useless). Galen, in the 2nd century, already said that doses alone make the difference between medicine and poison. Emergency response A quick-list of actions to do after an accident occurs may be (intervention protocol: 1. What happened? Keep calm, to best identify the accident for proper acting and for reporting (identify the type of damage and its extent). 2. Ask for help? Do not panic but hurry up; alert the closest knowledgeable people. An early alert to professional teams is key to control large emergencies. 3. Isolate damage! Has it ended? Avoid escalation in damage; isolate causes and damage extension: close valves, put further risks away (including children). 4. Injuries? Keep priorities: is life threatening? Do not think about property until life and health is safe. 5. Rescue. Keep priorities (benefit/cost) on what can be rescue. Organise actions to minimise overall cost, accident and countermeasures; sometimes fighting accidents cause increased damage. 6. Remediation. Many times, damage costs increase with time due to lack of benefit of use, so that quick temporal repairs are often applied (they should not contribute to enlarge risks). 7. Be better prepared for emergences. Individuals cannot be on permanent watch, but society must keep watch teams alert all the time (e.g. policemen, firemen). Both, society and individuals must keep proportional emergency stores (e.g. first aid box), and rehearse emergency procedures (e.g. evacuation rules). Analysis of accidents 1. What happened. Identification of the accident: what happened, when and where. 2. How it happened. Immediate cause of the accident (first explanation). 3. Why it happened. Immediate responsibility: first explanation of why it happened (had proper prevention measures been taken?). 4. How it was fought. Damage control, rescue and remediation. 5. Who pays. Responsibilities. 6. Rules updating. Risk acceptance is a subjective measure, and people may change priorities with experience. Prevention of accidents Individuals and society accept risks in accordance to the benefit the risky activity brings or may bring, as when settling by river banks that might flood, under roofs that might fall over, when travelling in sophisticated vehicles, or when using powerful tools. There is, however, a demand on risk management, usually delegated on social authorities, to control that risks have been evaluated, and procedures have been adopted in developed societies to guaranty a safe, efficient and respectful development of human activities at reasonable risk. Risk management can be split in several stages: 1. Hazard identification and labelling (the first part of risk management). Hazards must be categorised and regulated during production, transport and use. 2. Consequences identification (i.e. possible damage prediction, the second part of risk management). 3. Risk assessment (e.g. evaluating risk by comparison with other better-known risks). Known risks are less feared of (fear might increase risk). 4. Acceptability identification (avoiding risks disproportionate to benefits, and minimising acceptable risks). 5. Distribution of risk according to profiteers. 6. Prepare intervention protocols to fight in case of accidents (if they can, they will). It is very important to have an early detection, early alert, early containment and early fight, but above all to avoid escalation by improper action (quick-response systems may become unstable). 7. Distribute damage. Prepare intervention protocols to repair possible damage. Insurance companies aim at reducing the financial risk of individuals by spreading financial loss to a community. Glossary of terms: accident, exposure, fear... Accident Unexpected undesirable sudden event that cause direct damage. If damage is not undesirable, but intentional, it is an incident (minor offence), aggression or attack. If damage is not sudden, but progressive, it is wear or illness. If damage is not direct, but indirect, it is side-effects or after-effects. Severe accidents (that affects a lot of people and cause great damage) are termed disasters or catastrophes. Damage Actual harm caused to people, property or the environment. Damage usually refers to a sudden event; if more progressive, it is said spoil. Sudden damage to the human body is specifically termed injury. Defence Protection against threat or attack from enemy circumstances (e.g. weather) or people (from thieves to sabotage and military attack). Defence and protection against accidents is usually split in prevention (before) and response (after). Danger Imminent or probable risk, i.e. threatening circumstances. Exposure Cumulative amount of hazardous substance or electromagnetic radiation, received by living or non-living systems. Fear Subjective feeling of insecurity or risk (real or imaginary). Perceived risk may be more frightening than real danger (a USA poll amongst risk experts rated the three most-risky activities from a given set of 30 as: driving, smoking and alcohol drinking; the same poll amongst college students yielded: nuclear power, handguns and smoking). Injury Physical damage or hurt. Also moral harm (from injustice). Hazard Potential source of damage (threat). Hazards may be physical, chemical, nuclear or biological, and they are inherent to the materials, conditions, processes and activities involved. Spoil. Hazard types: Physical hazards: mechanical (chock, explosion, vibration and noise, particulates), electrical (chock), thermal (fire, chock, out-range), radiation (ionising, UV, flare, IR, MW, RW). Chemical hazards: oxygen depletion, gas poison, aerosols, liquid poisons, solid poisons. Biological hazards: infection by bacteria, by viruses, by prions. Ergonomic and psychological hazards: bad posture, bad planning, bad timing, changing interfaces (e.g. multitasking, dealing with the public), etc. Risk Product of probability by consequences of a hazardous event. Risk likelihood may be imminent or remote, events per time (e.g. 10 deaths per year), fractions of event cases (e.g. 1 per million). Risk possible consequences may be on health (deaths, injuries, exposure), property (ruin, spillage), or the environment (pollution, evacuation). Spoil Degradation of usefulness by exposure to harmful environments. Environmental effects may be physical (wear, temperature, weather), chemical (reactions), biological (viruses, bacteria) or radiological (ultraviolet, nuclear). Sudden spoil and accumulated spoil are named damage. (Back to Combustion)
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Does anyone know if these work in PvP, if so the bonuses are well worth it. If you consider 2% stacking you could easily have a 10-15% damage buff and resistance buff if you do all the accolades.
Naw.. The damage type accolades do work, but only resisting against or damaging with the specific type.. Thus you can get the +2 Disruptor damage which is nullified when you target have the +2 disruptor resist.
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But the NRA's LaPierre counters that universal background checks are "a dishonest premise." For example, mental health records are exempt from databases and criminals won't submit to the checks. Background checks, he said, are a "speed bump" in the system that "slows down the law-abiding and does nothing for anybody else."
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David Good got a bad rap when he appeared on The Bachelorette: Season 5 (Jillian Harris' Season) in 2009. Most infamous for his altercation with former contestant Juan Barbieri and the negative way he used the phrase 'Man Code', Good had the opportunity to redeem himself earlier this year on the all-star, spin-off competition Bachelor Pad.  Not only did Good surface from the show as the house favorite (and leader), he won the grand prize of $250,000 with partner Natalie Getz. Now, the 29-year-old first-time author is using a portion of his winnings to set the record straight about the true meaning of "Man Code" in his new book, The Man Code: A Woman's Guide to Cracking the Tough Guy.
Good gave Cupid a view of his softer side, while opening up about his country boy roots in West Alexandria, Ohio, and the importance of bringing back more of what he calls the "John Wayne" types.  Of course the interview wouldn't be complete if we didn't ask about his relationship status, too.  So, here's what he had to say:
What was your objective for writing "The Man Code"?
The whole point of the book is for women to realize how much power they have over how men in our country act. Â We conform to act the way you want us to in order to get your attention. Â Think about this: 80% of women get the children after a divorce, so there is a high percentage of single women raising sons. Â Women have control right from the beginning.
What is one way a woman can tell if she's with a "Man Code" man?
Honesty and truth.  A Man Code man will start out a relationship with nothing, but honesty.  He won't lie about anything.  Nothing.  There's no reason to.  If a guy's lying to you from the beginning, ditch him.  It's fine not to disclose your deepest thoughts and secrets right away.  But when those things do come up, it's important to be honest.
How can a woman break down the wall of a tough guy?
Don't break his trust.  If a guy opens up to you and he confides in you and you run and tell your friend that he shed a tear or got emotional about something and it gets back to his buddies and they laugh at him, he's going to emotionally shut down from you for a long time.  Once he confides in you, you don't want to embarrass him or break his trust.  If your guy is finally opening up to you and showing his sensitive side and you run and tell your friends that he was crying in your bedroom and he hears that, he will not open up to you for years to come.
When you used the term "Man Code" on the show, what did the other men think?
A lot of them thought I meant the whole "Bros before Ho's" thing.  That's the other side of it.  I did use it in that way when Juan was changing his clothes and being fake and not doing a shot.  But, when they made a mockery of it, that's when I was like, that's not what Man Code is really about.  Where I'm from in the heartland of America, it's a very serious subject.  Men take their work and the way they treat women seriously.  They take pride in what they do.  That's what provoked me to write the book, because it was taken all out of proportion.
How did the "Man Code" originate?
It started when I was 23 and working with my father.  I was in a grocery store in a small town where I'm from.  I saw a guy who was manhandling his wife out loud and in front of other men in the store.  Nobody was doing anything.  So, I walked over to this guy and just decleated the guy right off his feet.  The lady that he had pushed down on the ground got up and started screaming at ME.  I was so surprised, I didn't know what was going on.  So, I left my groceries because I didn't want to get in trouble, and I walked out.  I told my dad what had happened, and somehow we started talking about Man Code.  And that's kind of how it all originated.  We would always kid around about writing a book about it.
We understand that some of the proceeds from the book are going to cancer research. Is there a reason you chose that cause?
Yes.  Last year, I was at my best (girl) friend's house on vacation, and I was asleep when she woke me up because her doctor just called saying that she had cancer.  She was only 29 (she's 30 now), and to go through that experience with her really hit home.  Then a few weeks ago, my grandfather was diagnosed with stage III cancer.  A percentage of every book sold will go to cancer research.
The question we all want to know David is are you with Natalie? Â Were you ever with Natalie?
Natalie and I had a great run on the show, and we were good friends before the show, but no, we aren't together.  I would never say that we were necessarily boyfriend/girlfriend, but we were put in a very unique situation.  It's reality TV, but there's not a lot of reality about flying in private jets, staying in villas and driving Lamborgini's around.  It's hard not to fall into all of that.  I really like and respect her.  Obviously, she's beautiful, but I live 2,000 miles away from her.  We're great friends still, and we still talk, but "no" we're not in a relationship.
Good is about to embark on a 120+ city tour. Dates and locations are still being determined.
For more information or to order a copy of his book go to www.mancodebook.com and make sure to follow him on Twitter and Facebook.


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