화학공학소재연구정보센터
Advanced Powder Technology, Vol.31, No.7, 2792-2805, 2020
3D simulation on pressurized oxy-fuel combustion of coal in fluidized bed
Pressurized oxy-fuel combustion technology is considered as a perspective carbon capture technology in industrial process. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model based on Multi-Phase Particle-In-Cell (MP-PIC) method was developed to predict pressurized oxy-coal combustion process in fluidized bed. The heterogeneous and homogeneous combustion reactions of coal were considered in this model. The predicted results were validated the accuracy of this model with experimental data from a 15 kW(th), pressurized fluidized bed combustor in terms of the gas component and temperature characteristics. The characteristics of gas-solid flow and combustion under different pressure (0.1-2 MPa) and oxygen atmosphere were studied in this work. The predicted results show that the intensity of particle motion and the expansion degree in the fluidized bed was gradually decreased with an increase in pressure. A correlation was proposed based on the simulation results to maintain suitable fluidization conditions in pressurized circulating fluidized bed at different pressures. The temperature of particle phase region gradually increased with combustion pressure and inlet O-2 concentration increased. In addition, the CO2 concentration in outlet increased while the emission of CO and NOx decreased as the combustion pressure increased. (C) 2020 The Society of Powder Technology Japan. Published by Elsevier B.V. and The Society of Powder Technology Japan. All rights reserved.