Computer modeling of coal gasification reactors. Quarterly technical progress report, June 1, 1976--September 30, 1976

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7301931· OSTI ID:7301931

Blake, T. R.

Work was continued to develop and apply computer codes, based upon continuum theories of multiphase flows, to the performance of fluidized bed and entrained flow reactors for coal gasification. Research related to the fluidized bed computer code included minor modifications to the two-dimensional thermohydrodynamic numerical model, continued formulations of constitutive equations, interaction functions for solid particle-gas flows and formulations of single particle-gas heterogeneous reaction models. A major revision of a homogeneous chemical reactor model to represent transient, constant volume, isothermal reactors was made and this homogeneous reactor model was used to study chemical parameter optimization. The work on the entrained flow computer model was primarily directed to a review and summary of existing theoretical and experimental studies on entrained flow gasification and to the initial formulation of the conservation equations for multidimensional entrained flows.

• Research Organization: Systems, Science and Software, La Jolla, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7301931
• Report Number(s): FE-1770-19; SSS-R-77-3048
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010404* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Gasification
CARBON DIOXIDE ACCEPTOR PROCESS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMICAL REACTORS
COAL GASIFICATION
COAL GASIFICATION PLANTS
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
ENTRAINMENT
FLUID FLOW
FLUIDIZED BED
GASIFICATION
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
SNG PROCESSES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
VISCOSITY