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A numerical study of the air fuel ratio effect on the combustion characteristics in a MILD combustor  

Ha, Ji-Soo (Energy.Environmental Science Department Keimyung University)
Kim, Tae-Kwon (Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Department, Keimyung University)
Shim, Sung-Hoon (Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials)
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Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers / v.32, no.6, 2010 , pp. 587-592 More about this Journal
Abstract
A numerical analysis of reactive flow in a MILD(Moderate and Intense Low oxygen Dilution) combustor is accomplished to elucidate the characteristics of combustion phenomena in the furnace with the variation of air fuel ratio. For the smaller magnitude of air injection velocity(10 m/s), the air flow could not penetrate toward upper part of furnace. On the other hand, the air flow suppresses the fuel flow for the case of air injection velocity 30 m/s. The air velocity 18 m/s is corresponding to the stoichiometric air flow velocity, and for that case, the air flows to relatively more upper part of the furnace when compared with the case of air injection velocity 10 m/s. The reaction zone is produced with the previous flow pattern, so that the reaction zone of the air injection velocity 10 m/s is biased to the air nozzle side and for the case of air injection velocity 30 m/s, the reaction zone is inclined to the fuel nozzle side. For the cases with the air injection velocities 16, 18, 20 m/s, the reaction zone is nearly located at the center between air nozzle and fuel nozzle. The maximum temperatures and NOx concentrations for the cases of air injection velocity 16, 18, 20 m/s are lower than the cases with air injection velocity 10, 30 m/s. From the present study, the stoichiometric air fuel ratio is considered as the most optimal operating condition for the NOx reduction.
Keywords
MILD combustion; Air fuel ratio; Reaction zone; NOx; Maximum temperature;
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