Application Analysis on the Bias and Air Staged Combustion Technology in the Opposed Firing Boiler

Author(s):  
Tai-sheng Liu

The bias combustion technology has been widely used in the swirling burner. Take the distribution of the pulverized-coal concentration at the primary air outlet as the division principle, there are three kinds of bias combustion models: radial model with inside dense and outside lean, radial model with outside dense and inside lean, and circumferential model. Considering stable ignition and low NOx emission, at the phase of the pulverized-coal ignition, the dense pulverized-coal flow should be heated by the high temperature flue gas intensively and quickly to ensure the coal’s timely ignition and form an In-flame NOx reduction zone for low NOx emission. Hence the bias combustion technology should be in accordance with the recirculation zone. So the radial bias model with inside dense and outside lean suits to central recirculation zone while radial bias model with outside dense and inside lean suits to annular recirculation zone. The circumferential bias model suits to both recirculation zones. Furthermore, appropriate measures should be taken on the burner’s arrangement and furnace’s design to prevent the obvious increase of slagging problem and unburned carbon in fly ash when using bias and air staged combustion technology.

2015 ◽  
Vol 737 ◽  
pp. 584-587
Author(s):  
Tian Hua Wu ◽  
Ren Zhang Qian

Pulverized coal combustion is one of the main NOx emission sources. The existing low NOx combustion technology can not meet the requirements of environment conservation. In this paper, a new low NOx combustion technology, the NOx inhibition method based on water-gas reaction, is presented, in which steam is injected into the anoxic flame of pulverized coal to bring water-gas reaction and produce CO and H2 which will inhibit the production of NOx. The produced H2 is especially very active. Water-gas reaction is endothermic, which has an effect of reducing the peak temperature of the flame and is very propitious to the inhibition of thermal type NOx. As the water-gas reaction is also an interim process, the heat absorbed in it will be released when burning with oxygen so that the whole amount of heat inside the furnace is not affected. The principle of the method is proved correct by experiments and industrial scale of 420 t/h boiler tests in which the effect of NOx reduction is obvious. The technology is consistent with that of air-staged combustion.


Fuel ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Li ◽  
Shanshan Zhang ◽  
Hua Zhou ◽  
Zhuyin Ren

Author(s):  
Bradley Adams ◽  
Marc Cremer ◽  
James Valentine ◽  
Venkata Bhamidipati ◽  
David O’Connor ◽  
...  

CFD modeling has found increasing use in the design and evaluation of utility boiler retrofits, combustion optimization and NOx reduction technologies. This paper reviews two recent examples of CFD modeling used in the design and evaluation of NOx reduction technologies. The first example involves the staging of furnace combustion through use of overfire air (OFA) to reduce NOx emission in a B&W opposed-wall fired pc furnace. Furnace simulations identified locations of highest flue gas mass flows and highest CO concentrations and were used to identify OFA port placement for maximum NOx reduction with lowest increases in unburned carbon in fly ash and CO emission. Simulations predicted a 34% reduction in NOx emission with OFA. The second example summarizes the design and application of RRI with OFA and SNCR in a 138 MW cyclone-fired boiler. Simulations were used to design an aminebased injection system for the staged lower furnace and to evaluate NOx reduction and ammonia slip of the RRI system. Field-testing confirmed modeling predictions and demonstrated that the RRI system alone could achieve 25–30% NOx reduction beyond OFA levels with less than 1 ppm ammonia slip and that RRI in combination with SNCR could achieve 50–55% NOx reduction with less than 5 ppm slip.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (suppl. 3) ◽  
pp. 597-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srdjan Belosevic ◽  
Ivan Tomanovic ◽  
Nenad Crnomarkovic ◽  
Aleksandar Milicevic

A cost-effective reduction of NOx emission from utility boilers firing pulverized coal can be achieved by means of combustion modifications in the furnace. It is also essential to provide the pulverized coal diffusion flame control. Mathematical modeling is regularly used for analysis and optimization of complex turbulent reactive flows and mutually dependent processes in coal combustion furnaces. In the numerical study, predictions were performed by an in-house developed comprehensive three-dimensional differential model of flow, combustion and heat/mass transfer with submodel of the fuel- and thermal-NO formation/ destruction reactions. Influence of various operating conditions in the case-study utility boiler tangentially fired furnace, such as distribution of both the fuel and the combustion air over the burners and tiers, fuel-bound nitrogen content and grinding fineness of coal were investigated individually and in combination. Mechanisms of NO formation and depletion were found to be strongly affected by flow, temperature and gas mixture components concentration fields. Proper modifications of combustion process can provide more than 30% of the NOx emission abatement, approaching the corresponding emission limits, with simultaneous control of the flame geometry and position within the furnace. This kind of complex numerical experiments provides conditions for improvements of the power plant furnaces exploitation, with respect to high efficiency, operation flexibility and low emission.


Fuel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 271 ◽  
pp. 117592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhao Song ◽  
Ziqu Ouyang ◽  
Minghao Wang ◽  
Shiyuan Li ◽  
Jingzhang Liu ◽  
...  

Fuel ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 282-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myung Soo Kang ◽  
Hyo Jae Jeong ◽  
Massoud Massoudi Farid ◽  
Jungho Hwang

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