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CFD STUDY ON THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER OF A 1 kW CLASS STIRLING ENGINE (1 KW급 LNG 스털링 엔진 연소실 수치해석)

  • Ahn, J.;Lee, Y.S.;Kim, H.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.252-257
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    • 2010
  • The availability of the thermal energy has been deeply recognized recently to encourage the cascade usage of thermal energy from combustion. Within the frame work, a 1 kW class Stirling engine based cogeneration system has been proposed for a unit of a distributed energy system. The capacity has been designed to be adequate for the domestic usage, which requires high compactness as well as low emission and noised. To develop a highly efficient system with satisfying these requirements, a premixed slot flame burner has been proposed and a series of numerical simulation has been performed to establish a design tool for the combustion chamber. The thermal radiation model has been found to highly affect the computational results and a proper resolution to analyze the heat transfer characteristics of the high temperature heat exchanger. Finally, the combustion characteristics of the premixed flame with the metal fiber type burner has been studied.

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Influence of Coal Conversion Model and Turbulent Mixing Rate in Numerical Simulation of a Pulverized-coal-fired Boiler (미분탄 보일러 연소 해석에서 석탄 반응 모델 및 난류 혼합 속도의 영향 평가)

  • Yang, Joo-Hyang;Kim, Jung-Eun A.;Ryu, Changkook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2015
  • Investigating coal combustion in a large-scale boiler using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) requires a combination of flow and reaction models. These models include a number of rate constants which are often difficult to determine or validate for particular coals or furnaces. Nonetheless, CFD plays an important role in developing new combustion technologies and improving the operation. In this study, the model selection and rate constants for coal devolatilization, char conversion, and turbulent reaction were evaluated for a commercial wall-firing boiler. The influence of devolatilization and char reaction models was found not significant on the overall temperature distribution and heat transfer rate. However, the difference in the flame shapes near the burners were noticeable. Compared to the coal conversion models, the rate constant used for the eddy dissipation rate of gaseous reactions had a larger influence on the temperature and heat transfer rate. Based on the operation data, a value for the rate constant was recommended.

CFD STUDY ON THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER OF A 1 kW CLASS STIRLING ENGINE (1 kW급 LNG 스털링 엔진 연소실 수치해석)

  • Ahn, J.;Lee, Y.S.;Kim, H.J.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.88-94
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    • 2011
  • The availability of the thermal energy has been deeply recognized recently to encourage the cascade usage of thermal energy from combustion. Within the framework, a 1 kW class Stirling engine based cogeneration system has been proposed for a unit of a distributed energy system. The capacity has been designed to be adequate for the domestic usage, which requires high compactness as well as low emission and noise. To develop a highly efficient system with satisfying these requirements, a premixed slot type short flame burner has been proposed and a series of numerical simulation has been performed to establish a design tool for the combustion chamber. The thermal radiation model has been found to highly affect the computational results and a proper resolution to analyze the heat transfer characteristics of the high temperature heat exchanger. Finally, the combustion characteristics of the premixed flame with the metal fiber type burner has been studied.

Simulation and Model Validation of Combustion in a Wood Pellet Boiler Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (전산유체역학을 이용한 목재펠릿보일러 연소모델 정립 및 검증)

  • Oh, Kwang Cheol;Euh, Seung Hee;Oh, Jae Heun;Kim, Dae Hyun
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2014
  • In this study, combustion behaviour were to analyze by comparing experimental data against predicted values. In developing pellet boiler performance, various factors such as combustion chamber shape, input air velocity, the amount of fuel, temperature, and fuel characteristics need to be analyzed. Analytical model using a numerical method is useful to overcome time and cost consuming by practical experiment. By controlling feeding rate of fuel, flue gas composition and temperature distribution obtained form experiment were compared with predicted values using FLUENT(ANSYS, Inc., Southpointe). Measurement were in good agreement with model predictions : with 0.60 % for $CO_2$ 0.73% for $O_2$ when compared with independent data sets.

Flame Transfer Function Modeling in a Gas Turbine Partially-premixed Combustor with Equivalence Ratio Modulation (가스터빈 부분 예혼합 연소기에서 당량비 섭동에 대한 화염전달함수 모델링)

  • Kim, Jihwan;Kim, Daesik
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2017
  • This study has investigated the relationship between heat release fluctuations and the flow perturbations in a partially premixed gas turbine combustor using a commercial CFD code. Special focus of the current work is placed on the effect of equivalence ratio on the flame dynamics in a partially-premixed system. As the first step for this combustion dynamics study in the non-perfectly premixed combustor, flame behaviors are modeled and then compared with measured results under both steady and unsteady conditions. The calculated results of the flame transfer function with equivalence ratio fluctuation are found to well capture the main qualitative characteristics of the combustion dynamics for the partially-premixed flames.

Fire Simulations (화재시뮬레이션)

  • Kim Sang-Moon;Yoon Sang-Youl;Kim Kyung-Chun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2006
  • Fire simulation has been developed for decades to analyze fire cases and provide a tool to study fundamental fire dynamics and combustion. There are three way of fire simulation which are a full scale simulation, an experimental simulation and a computational simulation. In case of a full scale simulation, because a higher cost, a higher risk, more efforts are needed, a demand for it has been decreased. But recently a demand for an experimental simulation and a computational simulation has been increased. A computational simulation has several advantages; lower cost, short period, many case studies, more visual results, a quantitative result and etc. FDS(Fire Dynamics Simulator) which has been developed in BFRL(Building and Fire Research Laboratory), NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology) is a popular world wide code for fire simulation. Lack of accurate predictions by the model could lead to erroneous conclusions with regard to fire safety. All results should be evaluated by the informed judgment of the qualified user.

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Flame Response Modeling for Lean Premixed Combustors Using CFD (CFD를 이용한 희박 예혼합 연소기에서의 연소 응답 모델링)

  • Kim, Daesik;Lee, Jeongwon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.38 no.9
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    • pp.773-779
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    • 2014
  • A qualitative and quantitative analysis on flame dynamics is required to model combustion instability characteristics in gas turbine lean premixed combustors. The current paper shows the flame transfer function modeling results using CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques for the flame dynamics study. It is generally known that flame shapes determine the basic characteristics of the flame transfer function. The comparisons of the modeled flame shapes with the measured ones were made using the optimized heat transfer conditions. Modeling results of the flame transfer function show the close behaviors to the measured data with a reasonable accuracy if the flame geometry can be exactly captured.

Numerical Study of Metal Particle Behaviors and Flow Characteristics in Flame Spray Process (화염 스프레이 공정에서 미세 금속 입자의 거동 및 유동 특성에 대한 수치해석 연구)

  • Shin, Dong-Hwan;Lee, Jae-Bin;Lee, Seong-Hyuk
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2011
  • The present study conducted computational simulation for multiphase flow in the flame spray coating process with commercially available Ni-Cr powders. The flows in a flame spray gun is characterized by very complex phenomena including combustion, turbulent flows, and convective and radiative heat transfer. In this study, we used a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code of Fluent (ver. 6.3.26) to predict gas dynamics involving combustion, gas and particle temperature distributions, and multi-dimensional particle trajectories with the use of the discrete phase model (DPM). We also examined the effect of particle size on the flame spray process. It was found that particle velocity and gas temperature decreased rapidly in the radial direction, and they were substantially affected by the particle size.

Effects of Fuel Composition on Flame Transfer Function in Lean Premixed Combustor (희박 예혼합 연소기에서 연료 조성이 화염전달함수 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jinah;Kim, Jihwan;Lee, Jeongwon;Kim, Daesik
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2015
  • Flame transfer function is used to determine the relationship between flow fluctuations and heat release perturbations in a lean premixed gas turbine combustor. The characteristics of flame transfer function are known to depend greatly on flame geometries in addition to other various flow conditions. However, it is not easy to experimentally measure the flame transfer function under various actual combustor operating conditions in terms of time and cost. The current research tries to model the flame transfer function using CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics). From the results, it is shown that the calculated steady flame geometry can be exactly captured with consideration of the wall heat transfer and radiations. Also, unsteady analysis results show the close characteristics of the flame transfer function to the measured one in both gain and phase.

Experimental and Numerical Investigation for NOx Reduction with Fuel Lean Reburning System (NOx저감을 위한 연료희박 재연소 기법의 실험 및 수치적 연구)

  • Kim, Hak-Young;Baek, Seung-Wook;Son, Hee;Kim, Se-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2009
  • Fuel lean reburning method is very attractive way in comparison with conventional reburning method for reducing NOX. Meanwhile, the knowledge of the how flue gas re-circulated, temperature distribution and species concentration is crucial for the design and operation of an effective fuel lean reburning system. For this reason, numerical analysis of fuel lean reburning system is a very important and challenge task. In this work, the effect of fuel lean reburn system on NOX reduction has been experimentally and numerically conducted. Experimental study has been conducted with a 15kW lab scale furnace. Liquefied Petroleum Gas is used as main fuel and reburn fuel. To carry out numerical study, the finite-volume based commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code FLUENT6.3 was used to simulate the reacting flow in a given laboratory furnace. Steady state, three dimensional analysis performed for turbulent reactive flow and radiative heat transfer in the furnace.

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