CFD: Analysis of the Influence of Modified Tangential Air Inlets on the Combustion Behavior of a Two-Stage Combustion Chamber
At the Institute of Thermal Turbomachines and Powerplants at the Vienna University of Technology, a two-stage combustion chamber was designed and constructed to directly drive a gas turbine by combustion of wood dust. A commercial CFD-solver was applied to examine the effects of modifications of the geometry on the combustion performance. Since this parameter study was done with the same operation parameters and the same boundary conditions, the computational results represent the influence of the different flow fields caused by the modified combustion chamber. The particle gasification time, the temperature, and the chemical composition of the flue gas at the combustion chamber exit have been used for the assessment of the combustion performance.