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http://dx.doi.org/10.7464/ksct.2019.25.1.074

Study on the Co-firing of Sewage Sludge to a 80 kWth-scale Pulverized Coal Combustion System  

Chae, Taeyoung (Thermochemical Energy System Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Lee, Jaewook (Thermochemical Energy System Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Lee, Youngjae (Thermochemical Energy System Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Yang, Won (Thermochemical Energy System Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
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Clean Technology / v.25, no.1, 2019 , pp. 74-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
Thermochemical treatment of sewage sludge is an energy-intensive process due to its high moisture content. To save the energy consumed during the process, the hydrothermal carbonization process for sewage sludge can be used to convert sewage sludge into clean solid fuel without pre-drying. This study is aimed to investigate co-firing characteristics of the hydrothermally carbonated sewage sludge (HCS) to a pulverized coal combustion system. The purpose of the measurement is to measure the pollutants produced during co-firing and combustion efficiency. The combustion system used in this study is a furnace with a down-firing swirl burner of a $80kW_{th}$ thermal input. Two sub-bituminous coals were used as a main fuel, and co-firing ratio of the sewage sludge was varied from 0% to 10% in a thermal basis. Experimental results show that $NO_x$ is 400 ~ 600 ppm, $SO_x$ is 600 ~ 700 ppm, and CO is less than 100 ppm. Experimental results show that stable combustion was achieved for high co-firing ratio of the HCS. Emission of $NO_x$ and $SO_x$ was decreased for higher co-firing ratio in spite of the higher nitrogen contents in the HCS. In addition, it was found that the pollutant emission is affected significantly by composition of the main fuel, regardless of the co-firing ratios.
Keywords
Hydrothermally carbonized sewage sludge; Pulverized coal; Co-firing; $SO_x$; $NO_x$;
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