Modelling coal gasification with CFD and discrete phase method
Authors:
- S.-P. ShiSSS.-P. Shi
- S. E. ZitneySZS. E. Zitney
- M. ShahnamMSM. Shahnam
- M. SyamlalMSM. Syamlal
- W. A. RogersWRW. A. Rogers
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the Energy Institute
- Vol. 79 (4) , 217-221
Abstract
In the present paper the authors describe a computational fluid dynamics model of a two-stage, oxygen blown, entrained flow, coal slurry gasifier for use in advanced power plant simulations. The discrete phase method is used to simulate the coal slurry flow. The physical and chemical processing of coal slurry gasification is implemented by calculating the discrete phase trajectory using a Lagrangian formulation. The particle tracking is coupled with specific physical processes, in which the coal particles sequentially undergo moisture release, vaporisation, devolatilisation, char oxidation and char gasification. Using specified plant boundary conditions, the gasification model predicts a synthesis gas composition that is very close to the values calculated by a restricted equilibrium reactor model tuned to represent typical experimental data. The char conversions are 100 and 86% for the first stage and second stage respectively.Keywords
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