scholarly journals Oscillating Combustion—Primary Measure to Reduce Nitrogen Oxide in a Grate Furnace–Experiments and Simulations

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2210
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Gehrmann ◽  
Bo Jaeger ◽  
Siegmar Wirtz ◽  
Viktor Scherer ◽  
Krasimir Aleksandrov ◽  
...  

The emission from industries and the mobility sector is under strong legal regulations in many countries worldwide. In Germany, the amendment to the 17th BlmSchV (Federal pollution control ordinance), which has been in force for waste incineration plants since 2013, has given rise to a new limit for nitrogen oxides of 150 mg/m3 as the daily mean level from 2019 on. A similar focus is on biomass-fired plants. According to the MCP (medium combustion plant) guideline of the EU, as a consequence, existing plants are required to either increase their consumption of ammonia water for nitrogen oxide reduction (SNCR process) or back fit SCR catalysts as secondary measures, which is a costly procedure. This paper presents a novel two-stage process in which an oscillating supply of secondary air allows nitrogen oxides to be reduced by approx. 50% at a good burnout level, which may obviate the need for secondary measures. Besides experimental investigations in a fixed bed reactor, CFD simulations confirm a high potential for reduction of nitrogen oxides. Together with the company POLZENITH, this process is under development for scale-up in a biomass incineration plant as a next step.

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 2122-2133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jindřich Zahradník ◽  
Marie Fialová ◽  
Jan Škoda ◽  
Helena Škodová

An experimental study was carried out aimed at establishing a data base for an optimum design of a continuous flow fixed-bed reactor for biotransformation of ammonium fumarate to L-aspartic acid catalyzed by immobilized cells of the strain Escherichia alcalescens dispar group. The experimental program included studies of the effect of reactor geometry, catalytic particle size, and packed bed arrangement on reactor hydrodynamics and on the rate of substrate conversion. An expression for the effective reaction rate was derived including the effect of mass transfer and conditions of the safe conversion-data scale-up were defined. Suggestions for the design of a pilot plant reactor (100 t/year) were formulated and decisive design parameters of such reactor were estimated for several variants of problem formulation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Faschian ◽  
Ilyas Eren ◽  
Steven Minden ◽  
Ralf Pörtner

Fixed-bed processes, where cells are immobilized within macroporous carriers, are a promising alternative to processes with suspended cells. A scale-up concept is presented in order to evaluate the performance as part of process design of fixed-bed processes. Therefore,Lactococcus lactiscultivation in chemostat and batch mode was compared to fixed bed cultures on three different scales, the smallest being the downscaledMultifermwith 10 mL fixed bed units, the second a 100 mL fixed-bed reactor and the third a pilot scale reactor with 1 L fixed bed volume. As expected, the volume specific lactate productivity of all cultivations was dependent on dilution rate. In suspension chemostat culture a maximum of 2.3 g·L-1·h-1was reached. Due to cell retention in the fixed-beds, productivity increased up to 8.29 g·L-1·h-1at a dilution rate of D = 1.16 h-1(corresponding to 2.4·µmax) on pilot scale. For all fixed bed cultures a common spline was obtained indicating a good scale-up performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Yu ◽  
Wim Brilman

Direct air capture (DAC) of CO2 can address CO2 emissions from distributed sources and produce CO2 from air virtually anywhere that it is needed. In this paper, the performance of a new radial flow reactor (RFR) for CO2 adsorption from ambient air is reported. The reactor uses a supported amine sorbent and is operated in a batch mode of operation or semi-continuously, respectively without or with sorbent circulation. The radial flow reactor, containing 2 kg of the adsorbent, is successfully scaled up from the experimental results obtained with a fixed bed reactor using only 1 g of the adsorbent. In the batch operation mode, the sorbent in the annular space of the RFR is regenerated in situ. With sorbent circulation, the RFR is loaded and unloaded batchwise and only used as an adsorber. A sorbent batch loaded with CO2 is transported to and regenerated in an external (fluid bed) regenerator. The RFR unit is characterized by a low contacting energy (0.7–1.5 GJ/ton-CO2) and a relatively short adsorption time (24–43 min) compared to other DAC processes using the same types of sorbents. The contactor concept is ready for further scale-up and continuous application.


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingxing Cheng ◽  
Xiaotao T. Bi

Abstract A NOx adsorption kinetic model including NO oxidation and adsorption was developed. The NOx and O2 adsorption experimental data from a fixed bed were found to be fitted well to the Freundlich type isotherm. An axial dispersion adsorption model was then developed to simulate the breakthrough curve for NOx adsorption in the fixed bed. The model parameters including mass transfer coefficient and axial dispersion coefficient were fitted from the NOx breakthrough curves measured in a fixed bed. This model can be used for design and scale-up of fixed bed NOx adsorption columns. It can also be extended for the modeling of NOx adsorption in the annulus region of the circulating fluidized bed reactor for catalytic reduction of NOx.


2013 ◽  
Vol 774-776 ◽  
pp. 743-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Wei Peng ◽  
Tao Luan ◽  
Yan Gao

The SCR catalysts were produced with V2O5, WO3, MoO3and anatase type TiO2. The catalyst samples were ground and sieved for 0.3~0.6mm.The NO catalytic efficiency, selectivity against N2O of the catalysts were investigated on a fixed bed reactor under simulated exhaust gas with a typical gas composition. The addition of W enhanced the catalytic efficiency of V(1)-W(x)-Mo (4.5)/TiO2catalysts at high temperature region, while lessened that at low temperature. Increasing the loading of W from 1.5% w/w to 4.5% w/w advanced the maximum catalytic efficiency from 88% to 99% and enlarged the temperature window of the catalyst. The presence of W promoted the N2O generation. The V(1)-W(4.5)-Mo (4.5)/TiO2catalyst showed higher catalytic selectivity for NO compared to the catalysts loading W.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Liu ◽  
Xiaolai Wang ◽  
Dexin Yang ◽  
Runxiong Gao ◽  
Zhonglai Wang ◽  
...  

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1452
Author(s):  
Min Seong Lee ◽  
Sun-I Kim ◽  
Myeung-jin Lee ◽  
Bora Ye ◽  
Taehyo Kim ◽  
...  

In this study, we synthesized V2O5-WO3/TiO2 catalysts with different crystallinities via one-sided and isotropic heating methods. We then investigated the effects of the catalysts’ crystallinity on their acidity, surface species, and catalytic performance through various analysis techniques and a fixed-bed reactor experiment. The isotropic heating method produced crystalline V2O5 and WO3, increasing the availability of both Brønsted and Lewis acid sites, while the one-sided method produced amorphous V2O5 and WO3. The crystalline structure of the two species significantly enhanced NO2 formation, causing more rapid selective catalytic reduction (SCR) reactions and greater catalyst reducibility for NOX decomposition. This improved NOX removal efficiency and N2 selectivity for a wider temperature range of 200 °C–450 °C. Additionally, the synthesized, crystalline catalysts exhibited good resistance to SO2, which is common in industrial flue gases. Through the results reported herein, this study may contribute to future studies on SCR catalysts and other catalyst systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
R. E. Yakovenko ◽  
I. N. Zubkov ◽  
G. B. Narochnyi ◽  
S. V. Nekroenko ◽  
A. P. Savost’yanov

The influence of the cobalt-containing component (Co-Al2O3/SiO2, Co-Re/Al2O3 and Co-Re/TiO2) of a composite catalyst was studied in the Fischer – Tropsch combined process for synthesis and hydrotransformation of hydrocarbons. A flow fixed-bed reactor was used for characterization of the catalytic properties at 2 MPa, flow rate 1000 h–1, 240–280 °C for 40–90 hours of continuous operation. The highest productivity and selectivity to C5+ hydrocarbons equal to 106 kg/(m3 cat·ч) and 67.1 %, respectively, was characteristic of the composite catalyst Co-Al2O3/SiO2(35%)/ZSM-5(30%)/Al2O3(30%) at 240 °C. The comparable activities were observed with the catalysts Co-Re/Al2O3 and Co-Al2O3/SiO2 but the former provided the formation of unsaturated hydrocarbons in a lower proportion in the products. The use of the Co-Re/TiO2 catalyst at elevated temperature (up to 280 °C) allowed the molecular mass distribution of the products to be shifted towards the formation of the gasoline fraction. The rate of the catalyst deactivation was established to increase in the series Co-Al2O3/SiO2 > Co-Re/Al2O3 > Co-Re/TiO2.


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