Lab-Scale Investigations During Combustion of Agricultural Residues and Selected Polish Coals

• Authors: Włodzimierz K. Kordylewski , Krzysztof J. Mościcki , Karol J. Witkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Preliminary lab-scale investigations were conducted on slagging abatement in biomass-firing by fuel mixing. Three agriculture biomass fuels and olive cake were used in the experiments. Polish lignites and bituminous coals were examined as anti-sintering additives. The effects of chlorine release, potassium retention and ash sintering were examined by heating samples of biomass fuels and additives in the muffle oven and, next, firing them in the laboratory down-fired furnace at the temperature in the range of 800-1150ºC. The obtained slag samples were analysed on: chlorine and potassium content, sintering tendency and crystalline components. Among the examined coals lignite from Turów mine and bituminous coal from Bolesław Śmiały mine appeared to be the most effective in potassium retention in aluminosilicate and chlorine release from slag. Possibly the major factor of these coals which reduced ash sintering was relatively high content of kaolinite

Keywords

EN

biomass; coal; ash; chlorine; slagging; chlorine

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Chemical and Process Engineering
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 249-262

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2014

online

10 - 7 - 2014

revised

22 - 3 - 2014

received

24 - 9 - 2013

accepted

25 - 3 - 2014

Contributors

author

Włodzimierz K. Kordylewski

• Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

author

Krzysztof J. Mościcki

• Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

author

Karol J. Witkowski

• EDF POLSKA Sp. z o.o., ul. Ciepłownicza 1, 31-587 Kraków, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cpe-2014-0019