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The research of the influence of primary air ratio on the combustion in a lignite-fired Ultra Supercritical boiler

  • Long Sha*
  • , Hui Liu
  • , Feng Jiao
  • , Qingxi Cao
  • , Nana Xin
  • , Shaohua Wu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code PHOENICS was applied to evaluate the combustion process in the furnace of a 1000MW dual circle tangential firing single furnace lignite-fired Ultra Supercritical (USC) boiler. The influence of different primary air ratios (35%, 39% and 43%) on the flow and mixing characteristics of the gas-solid two-phase flow and the combustion process in the furnace was focused on. The results indicate that in the furnace with double tangential firing, the flow field shows two well-symmetrical ellipses at different primary air ratios. The surface temperatures of the burners at which, the long axis of the ellipses pointed, are much higher than those in the other four corners. Thus the phenomena of 'Hot corners' and 'Cold corners' arise. In practical operating, the flow erodes the walls in the hot corner which may lead to high temperature corrosion and slagging. With the increase of primary air ratio, the average concentration of NO x at the outlet of furnace rises while the char distributions in the furnace are similar. By the comparisons of the characteristics of the airflow, the temperature distributions, the NO x formation amounts and the char burnout rates, the situation with the 35% primary air ratio is preferable. The results of this paper have great value because of the support they lend to the design of USC lignite-fired boilers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2009 - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2009 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 27 Mar 200931 Mar 2009

Publication series

NameAsia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC
ISSN (Print)2157-4839
ISSN (Electronic)2157-4847

Conference

Conference2009 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period27/03/0931/03/09

Keywords

  • Combustion
  • Dual circle tangential firing
  • NO
  • Numerical simulation
  • Primary air ratio

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