Computational Modelling of a Tangentially Fired Boiler With Deposit Formation Phenomena

• Authors: Norbert J. Modliński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Any complete CFD model of pulverised coal-fired boiler needs to consider ash deposition phenomena. Wall boundary conditions (temperature and emissivity) should be temporally corrected to account for the effects of deposit growth on the combustion conditions. At present voluminous publications concerning ash related problems are available. The current paper presents development of an engineering tool integrating deposit formation models with the CFD code. It was then applied to two tangentially-fired boilers. The developed numerical tool was validated by comparing it with boiler evaporator power variation based on the on-line diagnostic system with the results from the full CFD simulation.

Keywords

EN

tangentially fired furnace; deposit formation; pulverised coal; CFD

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Chemical and Process Engineering
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 361-368

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2014

online

17 - 10 - 2014

received

17 - 7 - 2013

revised

30 - 6 - 2014

accepted

7 - 7 - 2014

Contributors

author

Norbert J. Modliński

• Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Heat Engineering and Fluid Mechanics, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/cpe-2014-0027