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Title: Development of a first-principles hybrid boiler model for oxy-combustion power generation system

Abstract

The design of an oxy-combustion system for CO2 capture involves the integration of multiple devices including air separation unit, coal-fired boiler, steam turbine, flue gas cleanup, recycle, and compression units. Thousands of design parameters for the entire system need to be optimized to achieve the lowest cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated. An appropriate first-principles based boiler model with short computer execution time but yet reasonable accuracy in both air-fired and oxy-fired configurations is highly desired. To this end, a hybrid boiler model with 1-D resolution for main flow and reaction related calculations and 3-D resolution for radiative heat transfer was developed as a part of the oxy-combustion subtask of the Carbon Capture and Simulation Initiative (CCSI) sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy. Furthermore, the developed model is able to automatically generate a 3-D mesh based on user-specified furnace shape for the calculation of radiative heat transfer using discrete ordinates method.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3]
  1. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States); AECOM, Morgantown, WV (United States)
  2. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  3. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); USDOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
OSTI Identifier:
1478621
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1337576
Grant/Contract Number:  
FE0004000
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 46; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1750-5836
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; Boiler model; Oxy-combustion; Pulverized coal combustion; System optimization; Carbon capture; Discrete ordinates method

Citation Formats

Ma, Jinliang, Eason, John P., Dowling, Alexander W., Biegler, Lorenz T., and Miller, David C. Development of a first-principles hybrid boiler model for oxy-combustion power generation system. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.12.036.
Ma, Jinliang, Eason, John P., Dowling, Alexander W., Biegler, Lorenz T., & Miller, David C. Development of a first-principles hybrid boiler model for oxy-combustion power generation system. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.12.036
Ma, Jinliang, Eason, John P., Dowling, Alexander W., Biegler, Lorenz T., and Miller, David C. Thu . "Development of a first-principles hybrid boiler model for oxy-combustion power generation system". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.12.036. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1478621.
@article{osti_1478621,
title = {Development of a first-principles hybrid boiler model for oxy-combustion power generation system},
author = {Ma, Jinliang and Eason, John P. and Dowling, Alexander W. and Biegler, Lorenz T. and Miller, David C.},
abstractNote = {The design of an oxy-combustion system for CO2 capture involves the integration of multiple devices including air separation unit, coal-fired boiler, steam turbine, flue gas cleanup, recycle, and compression units. Thousands of design parameters for the entire system need to be optimized to achieve the lowest cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated. An appropriate first-principles based boiler model with short computer execution time but yet reasonable accuracy in both air-fired and oxy-fired configurations is highly desired. To this end, a hybrid boiler model with 1-D resolution for main flow and reaction related calculations and 3-D resolution for radiative heat transfer was developed as a part of the oxy-combustion subtask of the Carbon Capture and Simulation Initiative (CCSI) sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy. Furthermore, the developed model is able to automatically generate a 3-D mesh based on user-specified furnace shape for the calculation of radiative heat transfer using discrete ordinates method.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.12.036},
journal = {International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control},
number = C,
volume = 46,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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