• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2013

In pulverized coal fired boilers, slagging and fouling may cause significant effect on the operational life of boiler. As increasing a consumption of low rank coal, slagging and fouling are main issues in pulverized coal combustion. This study predicts ash deposition propensity in a 0.7 MW pilot-scale furnace. Slagging model is employed as a User-Defined Function (UDF) of FLUENT and validated against measurement and prediction. The results show good agreement compared with experiment. There is need to development of a pulverized coal combustion and slagging analysis at low coal.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.27-46
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• 1999

Combustion test on two kinds of Indonesian sub-bituminous coals of single and blended with bituminous coal imported for power generation was carried out by using the test furnace at KEPRI. The main items of combustion test were temperature profiles of the inside furnace, the yield of unburned carbon, environmental pollution emissions, slagging/fouling tendency, and the comparison of heat loss of furnace. The test results showed that low sulfur and ash content characterized by the Indonesian coals were advantageous to environmental aspect, but high tendency of heat loss and slagging/fouling were disadvantageous to boiler operation. From the results, the necessity of proper coal blending to compensate these weak points was recommended.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.107-109
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• 2012

In Korean coal power plants, rising coal prices have recently led to the rapid utilization of low lank coals such as sub-bituminous coal with low calorific values and low ash fusion temperatures. Using these coals beyond the design range has resulted in important issues including slagging and fouling, which cause negative effects in boiler performances and unstable operations. The purpose of this study is to observe slagging and fouling characteristics resulted from burning various ranks of pulverized coals. We have tested 3 different coals: FLAME(bituminous), KCH(sub-bituminous) and MOOLARBEN(bituminous)coals in the pilot system $50kW_{th}$ scale. A stainless steel tube with preheated air inside was installed in the downstream in order to simulate water wall. Collected ash on the probe and the slag inside the furnace near burner were analyzed by SEM (scanning electron microscopy) to verify the formation degree, surface features and color changes of the pasty ash particles. Induced coupled plasma and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were also performed to figure out the chemical characteristics of collected samples. As a result, KCH was observed that more slag was developed inside the walls of the furnace and on the probe than the other two kinds of coals, as shown in the calculate slagging and fouling indices as well.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.67-83
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• 1999

The objective of this study is development of low emission pulverized coal combustor for reducing pollutant emission generated from coal combustion. Low emission combustion technology for reducing NOx and fly ash was investigated by using 2 stage coaxial cyclone combustor. Staged combustion was employed for NOx reduction and high temperature slagging combustion was also studied for fly ash removal in the combustor. The result of this study shows that the low emission combustion system can reduce the amount of atmospheric pollutions with improved boiler efficiency and performance.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.293-298
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• 2006

There are many researches in progress on co-firing of coal and biomass to reduce carbon dioxide produced from the coal consumption. This study carried out 200 Kg/h combustion test furnace by mixing coal with timber. Coal was mixed with domestic and imported-wood around 10% to 20% based on input energy. For the mixed fuel, combustion temperature, unburned carbon and the composition of flue gas were analyzed. In addition, the tendency of slagging and fouling was examined using a probe. According to the result of the experiment, combustion temperature was depended on the kind of wood and mixing ratio. The unburned carbon loss was higher with increase of wood biomass mixing ratio, as a result, the total heat loss of furnace was slightly increased. The emission of NOx and SOx were decreased by $3{\sim}20%$ and $21{\sim}60%$ respectively. There are no difference of slagging and fouling tendency between biomass co-firing and coal burning only.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.433-441
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• 1992

Chemical composition and fusibility of coal ash were measured for 23 Korean anthracite coals. The relationship between chemical properties and fusion temperature of coal ash was investigated. The slagging and fouling in firing the pulverized coal for boiler was assessed for the coal samples. It was found that most ashes contained more than 80% of $SiO_2$ and $Al_2O_3$ whereas less than 1% of $Na_2O$. And also fusion temperature of ashes occured relatively higher for Korean coals. Therefore it can be predictable that the slagging and fouling formation has a little problem in a pulverized coal firing system. A base/acid ratio did show a good correlation with fusion temperature for these coal ashes.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2012

A slag building simplified model was developed to determine wall heat flux of a Shell 300 MW coal gasifier. In the model 4 layers(particulate, sintered, molten slag, solidified slag) were considered and mass conservation and energy balance were used to obtain each slag layer's thickness and surface temperature. Thermo-chemical and fluid charateristics of the gasifier were studied with and without considering the slag model using commercial CFD code FLUENT. Consideration of the slag layer did not affect syn-gas mole fractions. However, the slag layer caused to increase the exit gas temperature by about 50 K.

• Plant Journal
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2022

In this study, I analyzed the effect of slagging caused by blending bituminous coal and subbituminous coal while maintaining the generator output, combustion conditions, and ventilation conditions for 870MW thermal power plant designed with bituminous coal. Accordingly I proposed an acceptable method of blending coal method. the blending ratio of sub-bituminous coal was adjusted to 10%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, etc. to confirm ultimate analysis, proximate analysis, ash fusion temperature change, slagging indices, etc. Proper blending coal conditions are blending with sub-bituminous coal at 40% or less, ratio of base component to acid component(B/A) is 0.4 or less or 1 or more, total alkali(TA) is 3.5 or less, fusion slagging index(Rfs) is 1,345℃ or more, and ash content is 13% or less in ultimate analysis, the ash content in proximate analysis is 15% or less, and the initial deformation temperature(IDT) should be at least 1,200℃ or more

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.49-56
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• 1998

최근 국내의 에너지 수요는 특히 전기에너지 분야에서 급격한 증가추세를 보여왔으며 그 결과 전력생산을 위한 화석연료 중 특히 석탄의 사용량은 해가 갈수록 증가하였으며 이에 따라 다량의 대기오염물질과 온실가스 등이 발생하고 있어서 미래의 석탄 연소시스템들은 높은 열효율과 최소의 대기오염물질 배출을 필요로 하고 있다. (중략)

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.91-103
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• 1995

In recent years, significant advances have been made in the development of methods to predict ash behavior in utility boilers. This paper provides an overview of methods used to assess and predict ash formation and deposition. It has discussed some of the key problems associated with the formation and deposition of ash during the combustion of pulverized coal. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of ash formation, transport, growth, and strength development, there is still much work to be done. There is a need to develop quantitative relationships between the characteristics of the entrained ash and the physical properties of ash deposits that influence deposit growth, strength development, and cleanability. Also data from bench-scale, pilot-scale, and full-scale units are needed in order to determine operating conditions which will minimize deposition problems, maximize efficiency, and reduce emissions.