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Effects of Operating Conditions on NOx Emission in OFA-type Boiler  

Park, Kyoungwoo (School of Mechanical Engineering, Hoseo University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.24, no.3, 2013 , pp. 253-259 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the present study, the characteristics of combustion phenomena and NOx emission in the OFA-type tangentially injected coal-fired boiler have been investigated numerically in order to find the effect of geometrical variation on the performance of the boiler. For these, numerical analyses of turbulent flow, chemical reaction, and radiation heat transfer are performed by using the computational fluid dynamics method. The predicted results clearly show that NOx formation highly depends on the combustion processes, the temperature and species concentrations. In addition, the optimum conditions for both the maximum NOx reduction and highest boiler efficiency can be obtained by considering the amount of supplied air and the injection angle at OFA, and modifying the boiler configuration. It is also found that the variation of supplied air at OFA is more effective than that of the injection angle for reducing the NOx emission, within the present operating conditions.
Keywords
Computational fluid dynamics; combustion; NOx; overfire air; radiation; tangentially injected coal-fired boiler; turbulent flow;
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