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Original Articles

MODELLING PULVERISED COAL COMBUSTION USING A DETAILED COAL COMBUSTION MODEL

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Pages 763-787 | Received 18 Aug 2004, Accepted 23 May 2005, Published online: 25 Jan 2007
 

ABSTRACT

The ability to assess the combustion behaviour of internationally traded coals and accurately predict flame characteristics, stable species concentration, unburned carbon and pollutant emissions is of importance to the power generating industry. Despite recent advances in coal combustion modelling detailed understanding is still lacking on the exact role of the coal maceral content on the combustion process. Here, a CFD-based coal combustion model that includes these effects has been developed to try to improve the predictive capability. A computational simulation of a 1 MW (thermal), pulverised fuel combustion test furnace, which was designed to replicate the time-temperature history of a full-scale furnace, was performed. This furnace also contained a triple-staged low-NOx swirl burner. A number of simulations were made using a number of coals in order to calculate NOx and the unburned carbon-in-ash, the latter being a sensitive test for the accuracy of the char combustion model.

The authors would like to acknowledge EPSRC, the ESR21 Network and E.ON UK plc (D. M. Turner, D. Miller, J. Fackrell and R. Irons) for their financial support and assistance.

Notes

∗Values are on a v/v basis.

∗∗Experimental values quoted here are interpolated from the measured (dry) data and corrected to a v/v basis.

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