Jim Seebold, Chevron Research and Technology Company, USA - IFRF Member

When asked "Did you get any thing useful our of the Q&A Forum? New information? New contacts?"

Jim replied:

"The bottom line answer is an enthusiastic "Yes!" and the several new IFRF utilities are so user friendly that I haven't the least idea how you could improve them...."

Shin-ichi Tanaka, President Nippon Furnace Kogyo Kaisha Ltd., Japan – IFRF Member

“Now Information Technology is becoming more and more essential day by day, so your new project [Online Combustion Handbook] would have big potential for IFRF members to accelerate development of new technology and business”

Pat Hughes, CANMET, Canada - IFRF Member

“I have found the NET to be very useful. The work that the IFRF has done in the past and is doing now is very relevant to industrial combustion and goes a long way to identifying the problems and identifying possible solutions……

What have I gotten out of my relationship with the IFRF? We have purchased IFRF designed burner and measurement equipment which have enabled us to understand burner and combustion phenomena and have used this understanding to the benefit of Canadian and foreign industry. Our research capabilities have certainly been enhanced by our relationship. I have found the documentation of the research conducted at the foundation to be of immense utility in designing my own experiments and in understanding my own results.

The TOTeMs and the various Research Committee meetings I have attended (AFRC and BFRC) have been very useful in explaining industrial combustion and in introducing me to researchers and combustion experts in industry. They are the only way that real combustion science can be discussed without the confusion of the commercialism found at trade shows.

Many Canadian combustion experts have been trained at the station and have had a very positive effect on industrial combustion in Canada.”