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James E. MACPHEE , Mathieu SELLIER , Mark JERMY and Edilberto TADULAN
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Canterbury University, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
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McDonalds Lime Ltd, Otorohanga, NEW ZEALAND
*Corresponding author, E-mail address: mathieu.sellier@canterbury.ac.nz
dm p
= k(m p (1 f v,0 f w,0 )m p,0 )
dm p RTm O R1R 2
(1) = D 2p (7)
dt dt MO R1 + R 2
where mp is the particle mass (kg), fv,0 is the fraction of The particle size is assumed to remain constant in this
volatiles initially present in the particle, fw,0 is the mass model while the density is allowed to decrease.
fraction of evaporating/boiling material (if wet combustion
is modelled) and mp,0 is the initial particle mass (kg). k is Finite Rate Chemistry
the kinetic rate (s-1). This equation has the approximate The first approach used for solving the gaseous phase
analytical solution reactions is the generalized finite rate formulation. This
method solves the species transport equations for reactant
m p (t + t) = (1 f v,0 )(1 f w,0 )m p,0 and product concentrations, in which the chemical reaction
mechanism is explicitly defined. Fluent predicts the local
[ ]
+ m p (t) (1 f v,0 ) (1 f w,0 )m p,0 ekt (2) mass fraction of species Yi through the solution of a
convection-diffusion equation for the ith species. This
which is obtained by assuming that the particle conservation equation takes the following general form:
temperature varies only slightly between discrete time r
r
integration steps. The kinetic rate, k, is defined by input of (Y i ) = J i + R i + S i (8)
an Arrhenius type pre-exponential factor and an activation
energy. where Ji is the diffusion flux of species i arising due to
k = A1 exp(E / RT ) (3) concentration gradients, Ri is the net rate of production of
species i by chemical reaction, and Si is the rate of creation
The activation energy was kept constant at E=7.4107 by addition from the dispersed phase. An equation of this
J/kmol for all modelling while the pre-exponential factor form is solved for N-1 species where N is the total number
A1 was obtained from Badzioch & Hawksley (1970) based of fluid phase chemical species present in the system.
on the coal properties.
Turbulent mixing for most fuels controls the overall rate
When injected into a turbulent diffusion flame coal of burning. Fluent provides a turbulence-chemistry
particles are rapidly heated at rates higher than 104 K/s interaction model based on the work of Magnussen and
(Peters & Weber, 1996). Under such rapid heating Hjertager (1976), called the eddy-dissipation model. The
conditions, substantially more volatiles are given off than net rate of production of species i due to reaction r, Ri,r, is
under low heating rates (1 K/s). For this reason the ASTM given by the smaller of the two expressions below:
proximate volatile matter content cannot be used for
modelling devolatilization rates. Instead the so-called
YH
high temperature volatile yield must be used. For the case R i,r = i,r
M w,i A min (9)
of modelling McDonalds Lime kiln the high temperature k H H,r M w, H
volatile yield has been estimated using the Chemical P YP
R i,r = i,r M w,i AB (10)
Percolation Devolatilization (CPD) model (Genetti & k Nj j,r M w, j
Fletcher, 1999; Pugmire, Solum, & Grant, 1992).
Char Combustion where is the stoichiometric coefficient for reactants,
Surface char combustion is accounted for using the is the stoichiometric coefficient for products, and M is the
Kinetic/Diffusion Reaction Rate model, which assumes molecular weight. Yp is the mass fraction of any product
that the surface reaction rate is determined either by species, P, and YH is the mass fraction of a particular
kinetics or a diffusion rate. Fluent uses the model of Baum reactant H. A and B are empirical constants equal to 4.0
& Street (1971) and Field (1969) in which the diffusion and 0.5 respectively. This model relates the rate of
rate,
variance, f '2 .
A three-dimensional quarter-geometry converged mesh
containing 220,000 cells was constructed using Gambit.
The mesh was refined in the burner region and areas of
r
( ) C d k f ' 2
2
f ' 2 = t f ' 2 + C g t f (13) high velocity and temperature gradients. The coal fired in
t the IFRF Furnace was a Saar Coal: Gottelborn hvBb. The
proximate and ultimate analyses of the coal are contained
where f '= f f . The default values for the constants t, in Table 1, Table 2 contains additional coal properties
Cg and Cd are 0.85, 2.86 and 2.0 respectively. Under the used by Fluent and Table 3 contains the experimental
assumption of chemical equilibrium all thermochemical burner input conditions. Other necessary boundary
scalars (species fractions, temperature and density) are conditions such as wall temperatures and emissivities are
uniquely related to the instantaneous fuel mixture fraction. listed in the work of Peters and Weber (1996).
The effects of turbulence on combustion chemistry are Table 1: Gottelborn coal proximate and ultimate
accounted for using an assumed shape probability density analyses.
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