Nitrogen oxide abatement by distributed fuel addition. Quarterly report No. 12, May 1, 1990--July 31, 1990

Technical Report · Mon Aug 27 04:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10112083· OSTI ID:10112083

Wendt, J O.L.; Mereb, J B

The research reported here is concerned with the application of secondary fuel addition, otherwise known as reburning, as a means of NO{sub x} destruction downstream of the primary flame zone in boilers. This paper consists of two parts: First, results from a statistically correct design of parametric experiments on a laboratory coal combustor are presented. These allow the effects of the most important variables to be isolated and identified. Second, mechanisms governing the inter-conversion and destruction of nitrogenous species in the fuel rich reburning zone of a laboratory coal combustor were explored, using fundamental kinetic arguments. The objective here was to extract models, which can be used to estimate reburning effectiveness in other, more practical combustion configurations. Emphasis is on the use of natural gas as the reburning fuel for a pulverized coal primary flame. Then, reburning mechanisms occur in two regimes; one in which fast reactions between NO and hydrocarbons are usually limited by mixing; the other in which reactions have slowed and in which known gas phase chemistry controls. For the latter regime, a simplified model based on detailed gas phase chemical kinetic mechanisms and known rate coefficients was able to predict temporal profiles of NO, NH{sub 3} and HCN. Reactions with hydrocarbons played important roles in both regimes and the Fenimore N{sub 2} fixation reactions limited reburning effectiveness at low primary NO values.

• Research Organization: Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC22-87PC79850
• OSTI ID: 10112083
• Report Number(s): DOE/PC/79850--12; ON: DE92005214
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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