Combustion of peanut shells in a cone-shaped bubbling fluidized-bed combustor using alumina as the bed material

Porametr Arromdee and Vladimir I. Kuprianov

Applied Energy, 2012, vol. 97, issue C, 470-482

Abstract: This paper reports experimental studies on burning peanut shells in the conical fluidized-bed combustor using alumina sand as the fluidizing agent. Prior to combustion tests, hydrodynamic regimes and characteristics of a conical alumina–biomass bed were investigated under cold-state conditions for variable percentage of peanut shells in the mixture and static bed height. With selected particle sizes (300–500μm) and static bed height (30cm), alumina ensured bubbling fluidization regime of the bed at operating conditions specified for firing biomass. Combustion tests were performed at 60kg/h and 45kg/h fuel feed rates, while ranging excess air from 20% to 80% at a fixed combustor load. Temperature and gas concentrations (O2, CO, CxHy as CH4, and NO) were measured along radial and axial directions inside the reactor as well as at stack in order to characterize combustion and emission performance of the combustor for the ranges of operating conditions. For firing 60kg/h peanut shells, excess air of 40% can be selected as an appropriate value ensuring high, about 99%, combustion efficiency and rather low emissions of CO and NO: 520ppm and 125ppm, respectively (both on a dry basis and at 6% O2). With reducing combustor load, the combustion efficiency and emission characteristics were improved to a little extent. No evidence of bed agglomeration was found during 30-h combustion tests on this conical fluidized-bed combustor using alumina sand as the bed material. However, the timescale effect on the composition of the bed material was found to be substantial.

Keywords: Peanut shells; Fluidized-bed combustor; Hydrodynamic characteristics; Combustion and emission performance; Behavior of the bed material (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.03.048

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