COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS BASED INVESTIGATION OF SENSITIVITY OF FURNACE OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS TO BURNER FLOW CONTROLS

Cremer, Marc; Chen, Zumao; Wang, Dave; Wolff, Paul

doi:10.2172/828894

Title: COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS BASED INVESTIGATION OF SENSITIVITY OF FURNACE OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS TO BURNER FLOW CONTROLS

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This is the extended second Semiannual Technical Report for DOE Cooperative Agreement No: DE-FC26-02NT41580. The goal of this project is to systematically assess the sensitivity of furnace operational conditions to burner air and fuel flows in coal fired utility boilers. Our approach is to utilize existing baseline furnace models that have been constructed using Reaction Engineering International's (REI) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Using CFD analyses provides the ability to carry out a carefully controlled virtual experiment to characterize the sensitivity of NOx emissions, unburned carbon (UBC), furnace exit CO (FECO), furnace exit temperature (FEGT), and waterwall deposition to burner flow controls. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is providing co-funding for this program, and instrument and controls experts from EPRI's Instrument and Controls (I&C) Center are active participants in this project. This program contains multiple tasks and good progress is being made on all fronts.

Authors:: Cremer, Marc; Chen, Zumao; Wang, Dave; Wolff, Paul

Publication Date:: Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004

Research Org.:: Reaction Engineering International (US)

Sponsoring Org.:: (US)

OSTI Identifier:: 828894

DOE Contract Number:: FC26-02NT41580

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 2004

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; AIR; BOILERS; BURNERS; CARBON; COAL; DEPOSITION; EPRI; FURNACES; SENSITIVITY

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                    Cremer, Marc, Chen, Zumao, Wang, Dave, and Wolff, Paul. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS BASED INVESTIGATION OF SENSITIVITY OF FURNACE OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS TO BURNER FLOW CONTROLS.  United States: N. p., 2004. 
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                    Cremer, Marc, Chen, Zumao, Wang, Dave, & Wolff, Paul. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS BASED INVESTIGATION OF SENSITIVITY OF FURNACE OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS TO BURNER FLOW CONTROLS.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/828894

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                    Cremer, Marc, Chen, Zumao, Wang, Dave, and Wolff, Paul. 2004.  
        "COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS BASED INVESTIGATION OF SENSITIVITY OF FURNACE OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS TO BURNER FLOW CONTROLS".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/828894.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/828894.

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  author       = {Cremer, Marc and Chen, Zumao and Wang, Dave and Wolff, Paul},

  abstractNote = {This is the extended second Semiannual Technical Report for DOE Cooperative Agreement No: DE-FC26-02NT41580. The goal of this project is to systematically assess the sensitivity of furnace operational conditions to burner air and fuel flows in coal fired utility boilers. Our approach is to utilize existing baseline furnace models that have been constructed using Reaction Engineering International's (REI) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Using CFD analyses provides the ability to carry out a carefully controlled virtual experiment to characterize the sensitivity of NOx emissions, unburned carbon (UBC), furnace exit CO (FECO), furnace exit temperature (FEGT), and waterwall deposition to burner flow controls. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is providing co-funding for this program, and instrument and controls experts from EPRI's Instrument and Controls (I&C) Center are active participants in this project. This program contains multiple tasks and good progress is being made on all fronts.},

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