Application of the steady flamelet model on a lab-scale and an industrial furnace for different oxygen concentrations

Rene Prieler, Bernhard Mayr, Martin Demuth, Davor Spoljaric and Christoph Hochenauer

Energy, 2015, vol. 91, issue C, 451-464

Abstract: In the present study a numerical and experimental investigation was done on the impact of oxy-fuel combustion in a lab-scale furnace. For combustion and radiation modelling the steady flamelet approach with 17 species and 25 reactions associated with a WSGG (weighted sum of grey-gases) model was used. CFD (computational fluid dynamics) model was validated by measured temperatures and heat fluxes with different O2 concentrations. It was found that simulated temperatures and heat fluxes were in close agreement with the measurements in the full range of oxygen enrichment. Although 17 species were considered the calculation time was significantly reduced by the steady flamelet approach compared to commonly used eddy dissipation concept models. Predicted and measured data revealed gas savings of 8.2% by an O2 concentration of 25 vol% instead of 21 vol%. Maximum gas savings were determined for 100 vol% O2 with a value of 16.7%. The CFD model was also applied to a simulation of an 18.2 MW walking hearth furnace under air-fired conditions which should be adapted for oxy-fuel combustion in the future. Results from CFD showed a heat flux of 9.15 MW compared to the required 9.33 MW according to the material data and production rate.

Keywords: Oxygen enriched combustion; Reheating furnace; Computational fluid dynamics; Energetic efficiency; Steady flamelet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544215011469
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:91:y:2015:i:c:p:451-464

DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.070

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().