次烟煤与半焦富氧混燃特性热重分析

Thermogravimetric analysis on the characteristics of oxy-fuel co-combustion of sub-bituminous coal and semi-coke

低阶煤与煤制半焦混燃对解决中国半焦过剩的问题具有重要意义。通过热重分析研究了准东次烟煤与烟煤半焦的富氧混燃特性。与空气气氛相比,富氧燃烧将着火温度和燃尽温度分别提高了10和40℃。氧气浓度提高到30%可以大幅补偿富氧条件下燃烧参数的轻微降低并获得更好的共燃性能。利用Flynn-Wall-Ozawa (FWO)、Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS)和Starink法计算活化能,活化能随质量转化率的变化可分为两个不同阶段,次烟煤、混合燃料和半焦的平均活化能分别为49.31、50.82和59.00 kg/mol。计算了焓变、吉布斯自由能变和熵变等热力学参数,相互作用指数表明在共燃过程中两种燃料发生了明显的相互作用,动力学和热力学计算结果表明30%的半焦参比促进了共燃。同时,X射线荧光光谱(XRF)和灰熔融分析表明与半焦掺烧能降低次烟煤灰的结渣倾向。

The co-combustion of the low-rank coal with coal derived semi-coke is of great significance to solve the urgent problem of excessively produced semi-coke in China. In this research, the oxy-fuel co-combustion characteristics of Zhundong sub-bituminous coal with bituminous coal derived semi-coke are systematically investigated using thermogravimetric analysis. Compared with air combustion, oxy-fuel atmosphere increased the ignition and burnout temperature by 10 and 40 °C, respectively. Increasing the oxygen concentration to 30% strongly compensated for the slight reduction of the combustion parameters under oxy-fuel condition and much better co-combustion performance was obtained.Three iso-conversional methods, namely, Flynn-Wall-Ozawa(FWO), Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose(KAS) and Starink, were applied to estimate the activation energy, which can be divided into two stages during the co-combustion process. The average activation energy of sub-bituminous coal, the blend and semi-coke were 49.31, 50.82 and 59.00 kg/mol, respectively. Further,the pre-exponential factor and thermodynamic parameters of the enthalpy change, Gibbs free energy change and entropy change were calculated. Interaction indices were innovatively used for both kinetic-thermodynamic parameters and DTG values. An obvious interaction can be observed during the co-combustion process. The kinetic and thermodynamic results demonstrated that the 30% semi-coke ratio was beneficial to co-combustion. Meanwhile, X-ray fluorescence(XRF) and ash fusion analyses proved that the slagging tendency of sub-bituminous coal ash reduced by blending of semi-coke.