CFD modelling of air-fired and oxy-fuel combustion in a large-scale furnace at Loy Yang A brown coal power station

Fuel

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 646-665

  Al Abbas, Audai Hussein ^a   Naser, Jamal ^a   Dodds, David ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFD; Combustion chemistry; NO x emission; Oxy fuel combustion; Victorian brown coal

Indexed keywords

CARBON BURNOUT; CFD CODES; CFD MODELLING; CFD MODELS; COAL POWER STATIONS; COMBUSTION CHEMISTRY; COMBUSTION CONDITION; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; COMBUSTION ZONES; CONVENTIONAL COMBUSTIONS; DEVOLATILIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GAS TEMPERATURE; MODELLING STUDIES; MULTI-STEP; NOX FORMATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPERATING CONDITION; OXYFUEL COMBUSTION; PRODUCTION RATES; PULVERIZED COALS; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; RESIDENCE TIME; TANGENTIALLY-FIRED BOILERS; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA; VICTORIAN BROWN COAL;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; POWER PLANTS; PROPANE; PULVERIZED FUEL;

LIGNITE;

EID: 84866594360     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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