Study on Coal Particle Combustion Characteristics and NO Emission in a Hot Laminar Gas Flow
The combustion and NO formation characteristics of coal particles of different size distributions in a laminar gas flow were investigated by numerical simulation. The variation of coal particle size distribution was obtained by changing the mass ratio of small-sized coal to large-sized coal. The gas-phase combustion was modeled using GRI-Mech 3.0. The particle motion was simulated using a trajectory model. The results show that the coal particle size distribution has a significant impact on combustion process and NO distribution. Coal particles of uniform size at either 105 or 75 μm results in a higher NO concentration than coal consisting of both the large and the small particles. The smaller-sized coal particles experience a rapid volatile release, a higher maximum gas temperature, and a higher maximum NO concentration. Increasing the mass ratio of the smaller-sized coal particles changes the gas temperature and the averaged NO distribution and lowers the maximum NO concentration.