The large consumption of coal in cement industry leads to a significant nitrogen oxide(NO_(x))emission,which has caused severe atmospheric pollution due to the existing low-efficiency denitration technologies.In this ...The large consumption of coal in cement industry leads to a significant nitrogen oxide(NO_(x))emission,which has caused severe atmospheric pollution due to the existing low-efficiency denitration technologies.In this research,a fuel pretreatment method on the concept of coal preheating was proposed to reduce NO_(x)emission from cement kilns.A special bench-scale experiment was designed to verify the feasibility of the proposed method.Experimental results showed that the proposed method could achieve high combustion efficiency,steady operation and low NO_(x)emission.The maximum reduction efficiency of primary NO in kiln gas reached 91.4%while the lowest NO_(x)emission was 145 mg/m^(3)(@10%O_2)during the experiment.The effects of key parameters on NO_(x)emission and primary NO_(x)reduction efficiency were comprehensively investigated.It was found that primary and secondary air ratios determined the oxygen content in the flue gas and the reaction temperature,which multiply affected the fuel-NO_(x)formation and activity of reductants.Increasing the length of the reducing zone could not only enhance the primary NO_(x)reduction efficiency,but also lower the combustion efficiency.In addition,cement raw material could greatly accelerate the formation of fuel-NO_(x)while its catalytic action on NO_(x)reduction was limited.展开更多
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by“Transformational Technologies for Clean Energy and Demonstration”,Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Grant No.XDA21040300the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Science(2015120).
文摘The large consumption of coal in cement industry leads to a significant nitrogen oxide(NO_(x))emission,which has caused severe atmospheric pollution due to the existing low-efficiency denitration technologies.In this research,a fuel pretreatment method on the concept of coal preheating was proposed to reduce NO_(x)emission from cement kilns.A special bench-scale experiment was designed to verify the feasibility of the proposed method.Experimental results showed that the proposed method could achieve high combustion efficiency,steady operation and low NO_(x)emission.The maximum reduction efficiency of primary NO in kiln gas reached 91.4%while the lowest NO_(x)emission was 145 mg/m^(3)(@10%O_2)during the experiment.The effects of key parameters on NO_(x)emission and primary NO_(x)reduction efficiency were comprehensively investigated.It was found that primary and secondary air ratios determined the oxygen content in the flue gas and the reaction temperature,which multiply affected the fuel-NO_(x)formation and activity of reductants.Increasing the length of the reducing zone could not only enhance the primary NO_(x)reduction efficiency,but also lower the combustion efficiency.In addition,cement raw material could greatly accelerate the formation of fuel-NO_(x)while its catalytic action on NO_(x)reduction was limited.
