Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling on the Air-Firing and Oxy-fuel Combustion of Dried Victorian Brown Coal

The numerical modeling of the combustion of air-dried Victorian brown coal in O2/N2 and O2/CO2 mixtures with 21–30% O2 has been conducted via the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), ANSYS FLUENT 13.0, with the refined weighted-sum-of-gray-gases model (WSGGM), the single-film model with multiple surface reactions (i.e., char-O2, char-CO2, and char-H2O) for char particle, and the refined two-step mechanism for the oxy-firing of methane to mimic the volatile oxidation. The purpose of this study is to verify the experimental observations in a lab-scale drop-tube furnace (DTF) and to promote the understanding on the details underpinning the combustion characteristics of Victorian brown coal, the youngest coal in the world and the single largest source for power generation in Victoria, Australia. As confirmed, the modeling results show good agreement with the experimental measurements on the particle temperature, coal ignition delay photographed by a high-speed camera, carbon burnout rate, and particle v...

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