Development and implementation of numerical simulation for a selective noncatalytic reduction system design

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 10994-11001

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Moyeda, David ^a   Lissianski, Vitali ^b   Chen, J Y ^c  

^a General Electric Energy   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA SLIP; CFD MODELING; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; CO CONCENTRATIONS; COMBUSTION FURNACES; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; ECONOMICAL METHODS; FULL-SCALE SYSTEM; GOOD MIXING; INDUSTRIAL COMBUSTION SYSTEM; INJECTION SYSTEMS; MODELING APPROACH; NOX EMISSIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERFECTLY STIRRED REACTOR; PILOT SCALE; PLUG FLOW REACTOR; PROPER DESIGN; REDUCED MECHANISMS; SELECTIVE NON-CATALYTIC REDUCTION; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE WINDOW; TEST DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

COMBUSTION; FUEL SYSTEMS; FURNACES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; SMOKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WINDOWS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 73349119070     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9004089     Document Type: Article

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