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Analysis of Air Distribution in the Windbox System of the Utility Boiler  

Park, Ho-Young (Advanced Power and Combustion Group, KEPRI)
Kim, Sung-Chul (Advanced Power and Combustion Group, KEPRI)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.20, no.9, 2008 , pp. 581-589 More about this Journal
Abstract
The pulverized coal combustion behavior in the utility boiler is very complex since so many physical and chemical processes happen in it, simultaneously. The mixing of pulverized coal with combustion air plays an important role in achieving the efficient combustion and stable boiler operation. The distribution of combustion air supplied to the furnace through the windbox damper system has not been clearly known since the individual measurements of air flow for each air nozzle were not possible, yet. The present study describes the CFD modelling of windbox damper system and aims to obtain the air flow rates and pressure loss coefficients across the present five damper systems, respectively. The one dimensional flow network model has been also established to get air flow distributions across the windbox damper, and applied to the actual plant operation condition. Compared with the designed air flow distribution, the modelled one gives a reasonable agreement. For the actual plant operation, the predicted air flow distribution at each air nozzle is differed with the designed data and strongly affected by the individual opening angle.
Keywords
Furnace; Damper; Air flow; Flow network;
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