Numerical analysis of particle dispersion and deposition in coal combustion using large-eddy simulation

Zhou, Min-min; Thornock, Jeremy; Zhan, Zhonghua; Dai, Jinze; Smith, Sean T.; Smith, Philip J.

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121384

Title: Numerical analysis of particle dispersion and deposition in coal combustion using large-eddy simulation

Journal Article · 15 July 2021 · Fuel

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121384 · OSTI ID:1977131

Zhou, Min-min ^[1]; Thornock, Jeremy ^[2]; Zhan, Zhonghua ^[2]; Dai, Jinze ^[2]; Smith, Sean T. ^[2]; Smith, Philip J. ^[2]

Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); OSTI
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

High-fidelity modeling provides a useful approach to investigate the particle dispersion and deposition mechanism in pulverized coal combustion. To be able to analyze these detailed mechanisms, this work couples detailed multiphysics models for poly-dispersed turbulent, particle-laden flow, particle and gas phase reaction chemistry, convective, conductive and radiative heat transfer, ash formation and deposition with a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) approach to numerically simulate coal combustion in a downfired self-sustained oxy-fuel combustor (OFC). It is necessary to explicitly capture all but the highest frequency dynamics of the turbulence and its coupling with each of the other physical phenomena using LES. Effects of subgrid-scale unresolved turbulence on the particle motions are also analyzed by a novel Stokes number analysis. Due to the inherent relation ship between coal combustion and ash deposition, this study integrates the improved ash deposition model into the numerical simulation. Overall simulation results are compared with experimentally measured data from the OFC. The simulation and measured data for the averaged gas temperature and deposition rates agree with 5% and 28%. This study shows that high-fidelity LES coupled with other detailed multiphysics models running on a exascale computing facility can provide a good representation of complex coal combustion and deposition in a laboratory-scale furnace.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0002375

OSTI ID:: 1977131

Journal Information:: Fuel, Journal Name: Fuel Journal Issue: C Vol. 304; ISSN 0016-2361

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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