• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2012

Wood pellet is one of biomass energy fuels, which is produced by compressing woody biomass such as sawdust, planer shavings, and whole-tree removal or tree tops and branches leftover after logging into cylindrical form. Latterly much attention has been paid to wood pellet boiler which is suitable for use at various scales in domestic and industrial furnaces for heat production to replace conventional fossil fuel energy sources since the use of wood pellet that is carbon neutral can alleviate global warming. This study presents the result of developing a high efficiency wood pellet boiler with 55MJ/h capacity. Efficiency has been improved by using a rotating disk burner with a shorter screw feeder. Special attention has been paid to the improvement of the safety of the wood pellet boiler from backfire by adopting a double protecting system composed of a shutter and an air curtain. The result shows that the efficiencies of the wood pellet boiler are 97.2% and 89.2% based on lower and higher heating values, respectively, at 15.1kW of heating output.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.31-44
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• 2013

Recently, due to the high rise of energy costs and environmental problem issues, much attention has been paid to wood pellets. Wood pellets are produced by compressing woody biomass into cylindrical form. Wood pellets are suitable for use at various scales in industrial furnaces for heat production to replace conventional fossil fuel energy sources since the use of wood pellet that is carbon neutral can alleviate global warming. This study presents the result of developing two industrial wood pellet boilers with high safety having capacities of 290kW and 440kW. Efficiency has been improved by using a rotating screw bar grate burner. Special attention has been paid to the improvement of the safety of the wood pellet boilers from backfire by adopting a triple protecting system composed of a rotary feeder, an air curtain, and a backfire protecting DC-fan.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.597-609
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• 2018

산림청은 보조금 지원사업을 통해 2011년부터 2015년까지 76대의 산업용 목재펠릿보일러를 보급하였다. 보일러의 연소 시 발생하는 일산화탄소(CO) 및 질소산화물($NO_x$)는 각각 급성 중독 시 사망에까지 이르게 하는 물질이기 때문에 배출량을 줄이는 것이 매우 중요하다. 따라서 이들 보일러 중 열풍기와 초기에 보급된 일부 보일러를 제외한 63대의 보일러에서 배출된 CO 및 $NO_x$ 계측값을 분석하였다. 또한 측정된 배출가스 농도(배기가스 $O_2$ 농도 12% 기준)로부터 배출계수를 산출하였다. 산업용 목재펠릿보일러에서 배출된 CO의 평균값은 49 ppm이었으며, 해를 거듭함에 따라 CO의 농도가 줄어들고 있음이 확인되었다. 이때 CO의 배출계수는 0.73 g/kg였다. 산업용 목재펠릿보일러에서 배출된 $NO_x$의 평균값은 67 ppm였으며, $NO_x$의 배출계수는 1.63 g/kg이었다. CO와는 달리 설치년도에 따라 감소하는 경향은 나타나지 않았다. CO 및 $NO_x$ 계측값은 모두 환경부의 허용기준을 만족하였다. 이러한 $NO_x$ 배출계수를 저$NO_x$ 인증된 연소기에서 생성되는 $NO_x$ 배출계수와 비교하였다. 산업용 목재펠릿보일러의 $NO_x$ 배출계수는 저$NO_x$ 인증된 LNG 연소기의 $NO_x$ 배출계수에 비해 약 1.9배, 석탄 연소에 비해 약 0.92배였다.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.44-54
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• 2018

Heat and mass balance process modeling has been conducted for a coal-firing power plant to be used as a testbed facility for development of various plant systems and equipment. As the material and design of the boiler tube bundle and fuel conversion to the biomass have become major concerns, the process modeling is required to incorporate those features in its calculation. The simulation cases for two different generation load show the satisfying results compared to the operational data from the actual system. Based on the established process conditions, the hypothetical case using wood pellet has also been simulated. Additional calculations for the tube bundle has been conducted regarding the changes in the tube material and design.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.8-17
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• 2014

The aims of this research were to evaluate effects of biomass co-firing to pulverized coal power plants and the variation of co-firing ratios on the plant efficiency related to power consumption of auxiliary system and flue gas characteristics such as production and component by process simulation based on the existing pulverized coal power plant. In this study, four kinds of biomass are selected as renewable fuel candidates for co-firing: wood pellet(WP), palm kernel shell(PKS), empty fruit bunch(EFB) and walnut shell(WS). Process simulation for various biomass fuels and co-firing ratios was performed using a commercial software. Gas side including combustion system and flue gas treatment system was considering with combination of water and steam side which contains turbines, condenser, feed water heaters and pumps. As a result, walnut shell might be the most suitable as co-firing fuel among four biomass since when 10% of walnut shell was co-fired with 90% of coal on thermal basis, flue gas production and power consumption of auxiliary systems were the smallest than those of other biomass co-firing while net plant efficiency was relatively higher than those of other biomass co-firing. However, with increasing walnut shell co-firing ratios, boiler efficiency and net plant efficiency were expected to decrease rather than coal combustion without biomass co-firing.