The characteristics of pyrolysis and combustion for a hollow cylindrical solid fuel

중공 원통형 고체연료의 열분해 및 연소특성

A theoretical analysis for the characteristics of pyrolysis and combustion of solid fuel was carried out in the present study. The hollow cylindrical combustion model including gas phase and solid fuel at inside and outside respectively was developed for the numerical analysis and parametric studies. The effects of volatile contents in the porous solid fuel and Reynolds number at inlet of gas phase on the characteristics of pyrolysis and combustion such as the radial, axial and time variations of volatile mass flux through porous solid fuel, temperature, mass fractions of gaseous fuel and oxidizer, and flame shape were investigated in the parametric studies. The results of the present study show that the flame produced by the volatiles moves to the downstream of fuel with accelerating velocity with time until extinction is occurred resulting from the completion of pyrolysis. When flame is employed with smaller amount of volatiles content in the solid fuel, the flame sheet exists closer to the inner wall of solid fuel. As Reynolds number at inlet increases, the flame sheet moves to the inner wall due to effect of convection even though the volatiles by pyrolysis increases.

본 연구에서는 국내 난방용 주연료인 연탄의 연소특성의 규명을 위한 기본 모델로서 일차적으로 형상을 단순화한 중공 원통형 고체연료의 연소모델을 개발하여 고체연료의 열분해 및 열분해 가스의 연소현상을 이론적으로 고찰하여 고체연료의 연속특성을 규명한다.