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The Experimental Studies of Vacuum Residue Combustion in a Small Scale Reactor  

Park Ho Young (Combustion & Thermal Engineering Group, Korea Electric Power Research Institute, KEPCO)
Kim Young Ju (Combustion & Thermal Engineering Group, Korea Electric Power Research Institute, KEPCO)
Kim Tae Hyung (Combustion & Thermal Engineering Group, Korea Electric Power Research Institute, KEPCO)
Seo Sang Il (Combustion & Thermal Engineering Group, Korea Electric Power Research Institute, KEPCO)
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Journal of Energy Engineering / v.14, no.4, 2005 , pp. 268-276 More about this Journal
Abstract
Vacuum Residue (VR) combustion tests were carried out with a 20 kg/hr (fuel feed rate) small scale reactor. The nozzle used was a steam atomized, internal mixing type. Compared to heavy oil, vacuum residue used in this work is extremely high viscous and contains high percentages of sulfur, carbon residue and heavy metals. To ignite atomized VR particles, it was necessary to preheat the reactor, and it has been done with LP gas. The axial and radial gas temperature, major species concentrations and solid sample were analyzed when varying the fuel feed rate. The main reaction zone of atomized VR-air flame in a reactor was anticipated within about 1 m from the burner tip by considering the profiles oi gas temperature, species concentration and particle size measured along with the reactor. At downstream, the thermally, fully developed temperature distribution was obtained. SEM photographs revealed that VR carbon particles collected from the reactor are porous and have many blow-holes on the particle surface.
Keywords
Vacuum residue; internal mixing; combustion; carbon residue;
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