A Cold Model Aerodynamical Test of Air-Staged Combustion in a Tangential Firing Utility Boiler

The purpose of this paper is to present the flow field in the 300MW tangential firing utility boiler that used the Low NOx Concentric Firing System （LNCFS）. Using the method of cold isothermal simulation ensures the geometric and boundary condition similarity. At the same time the condition of self-modeling is met. The experimental results show that the mixture of primary air and secondary air becomes slower, the average turbulence magnitude the relative diameter of the tangential firing enlarges of the main combustion zone becomes less and when the secondary air deflection angle increases When the velocity pressure ratio of the secondary air to the primary air （p2/p1） enlarges, the mixture of the secondary air and the primary air becomes stronger, the average turbulence magnitude of the main combustion zone increases, and the relative diameter of the tangential firing becomes larger. Because the over fire air （OFA） laid out near the wall has a powerful penetration, the relative diameter of the tangential firing on the section of the OFA is very little, but the average turbulence magnitude is great. When the velocity pressure ratio of the OFA to the primary air POFA/p1 increases, the relative diameter of the tangential firing on the section of the OFA grows little, the average turbulence magnitude becomes larger and the penetration of the OFA becomes more powerful.

Preheating Combustion Characteristics of Ultra-Low Volatile Carbon-Based Fuel

Pulverized coal combustion technology with preheating solid fuel in a circulating fluidized bed was used for the combustion test of ultra-low volatile carbon-based fuel.This paper first validated the feasibility and advantages of applying the combustion technology to this kind of fuel.The carbon-based fuel could achieve a stable preheating process in this test system.After the preheating,the apparent sensible heat of the fuel was significantly increased.This provided a necessary condition for the stable ignition and efficient combustion of the carbon-based fuel in the post-combustion chamber.The relative proportions of CO,H2,and CH4 in preheated coal gas were very low,and the effect of high-temperature coal gas at the entrance of the post-combustion chamber was greatly impaired,indicating that the combustion process in post-combustion chamber was mainly the combustion of preheated char.At the same time,the strong reducing atmosphere in the circulating fluidized bed also facilitated the reduction of fuel-nitrogen into N2,which resulted in low NOx emissions.On this basis,with the combination of preheating combustion technology and air-staging combustion technology,the NOx emissions had drastically decreased when the burnout air distribution position moved down or varied from a single-layer distribution to a multi-layer distribution system.The lowest original NOx emissions were 90.6 mg/m3(at 6%O2),and the combustion efficiency exceeded 97%,which ultimately achieved efficient and clean combustion of ultra-low volatile carbon-based fuel.