Measurement and modeling of advanced coal conversion processes
- Advanced Fuel Research, Inc., East Hartford, CT (United States)
- Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (United States)
The objective of this program is to understand the chemical and physical mechanisms in coal conversion processes and incorporate this knowledge in computer-aided reactor engineering technology for the purposes of development, evaluation, design, scale up, simulation, control and feedstock evaluation in advanced coal conversion devices. This technology will be important in reducing the technical and economic risks inherent in utilizing coal. This program is merging advances made at Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (AFR) in understanding and modeling coal conversion behavior, with technology being developed at Brigham Young University (BYU) in comprehensive computer codes for mechanistic modeling of entrained-bed and fixed-bed gasifiers. During the past year, work continued on the development, evaluation, and application of an advanced 2-D, entrained-bed model for pulverized coal combustion and gasification and a new 1-D model for fixed-bed coal gasification and combustion. Both models incorporate the Functional Group - Depolymerization, Vaporization, Crosslinking (FG-DVC) submodel for predicting coal devolatilization, particle swelling, and char reactivity. Work on this submodel was also completed during the past year. Extensive user`s manuals describing the theory and operation of the two codes and the submodels were also prepared.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center, WV (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC21-86MC23075
- OSTI ID:
- 140648
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/METC--93/6131; CONF-9306148--; ON: DE93000289
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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