Boiler Technology
CHEN Dengke, PENG Zhengkang, YAN Yonghong, SUN Liutao, SUN Rui
Hot-state experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of the change of bias concentration ratio of pulverized coal at primary air outlet on the ignition properties of primary air-coal mixtures in a 350 kW pilot-scale furnace. The furnace temperature at different axial and radial positions, and the concentrations of gaseous species O2, CO and NOx were measured in the primary combustion zone to study the effects of bias concentration ratio on pulverized coal ignition, NOx emission and burnout properties for co-combustion of Shenhua bituminous coal and Shenmu pyrolyzed semi-char (with blend ratio of semi-char to bituminous coal of 1:1). Results show that, except for the bias concentration ratio of 1.0 the ignition and combustion properties of the fuel-rich jet are better than the fuel-poor jet; the steady combustion position of coke moves upward in the furnace, while the O2 consumption and flue gas generation mainly concentrate on the fuel-rich side. With the increase of bias concentration ratio, the ignition stand-off distance shortens, the combustion stability in high-temperature region enhances, and the NOx concentration decreases sharply. However, the difference in NOx emission is only 20.27 mg/m3 between the cases with bias concentration ratio of 3.8 and 5.0 respectively, showing very small difference of NOx emission. Therefore it is recommended adopting the bias concentration ratio of 3.8-5.0 for the co-combustion of semi-char and bituminous coal.