Power Equipment and System
CAO Yuanhao, CHEN Xi, ZHOU Guanwen, SHI Jianliang, HUANG Guoshun
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulation has been widely applied in boiler design and operation optimization. However, in simulation process, the secondary air is often simplified as a velocity boundary condition, which makes it difficult to reflect the non-linear adjustment effect of damper opening on air velocity and the mutual influence among dampers during the actual operation of boiler. In response to above problems, a coupled numerical simulation method based on multi-dimensional modelling was proposed, by establishing a three-dimensional mathematical model for boiler furnace and a one-dimensional model for boiler secondary air system, while coupling the pressure and velocity in air dampers. Numerical simulation and validation were conducted on a 330 MW tangentially fired coal-fired boiler using this method, and the combustion characteristics of boiler under four air distribution conditions, including uniform, positive pagoda-shaped, inverted pagoda-shaped, and waist-shrinking, were analyzed. Results show that the model can accurately reflect the impact of secondary air damper opening change on combustion. In the burner zone, the temperature is relatively higher under positive pagoda-shaped air distribution, while it is lower under inverted pagoda-shaped air distribution. The temperature distributions in furnace under uniform and waist-shrinking air distribution are similar and relatively uniform. The CO mole fraction is relatively low under positive pagoda-shaped air distribution, while it is comparatively higher under inverted pagoda-shaped air distribution. In contrast, the CO mole fraction distributions are relatively uniform under both uniform and waist-shrinking air distributions.