简介:Acombustionmodelofalarge-scalesupercriticalcirculatingfluidizedbed(CFB)boilerwasdevelopedforcomprehensivecomputational-fluid-dynamicsanalysis.Themodelincorporatesgas-solidhydrodynamics,coalcombustion,heattransferonheatexchangesurfacesinthefurnace,andheattransferbetweenfumaceandworkingmediumintheheattransfertubes.Insimulatingthedenseanddilutephasesinthefumace,thegas-solidhydrodynamicsisbasedontheEuler-Eulermodelandenergy-minimizationmultiscaledragmodel.Coalcombustionentailsevaporation,devolatilization,charcombustion,gashomogeneousreaction,andpollutantemission.Thecoefficientofheattransferbetweengas-solidandthewaterwallisestimatedusingtheclusterrenewalmodel,andforradiation,thediscreteordinatemodelisused.Moreover,thermohydraulicprocessesinthemembranewallarealsoineludedintheheattransferprocess.Themodelwassuccessfullyappliedinsimulationsofa350-MWsupercriticalCFBboiler.Detaileddistributionsofsolidsconcentration,oxygen,heatflux,andworkingmediumtemperatureintheboilerfurnacearepresented.
简介:Gas-solidtwo-phaseflowinacirculatingfluidizedbed(CFB)isaffectedbyoperatingconditions(e.g.,superficialgasvelocity,solidsinventory),materialpropertiesandgeometricfactors,suchastheentryandexitconfiguration.Inparticular,thesuspensionsection,whichislocatedbetweentheriserbottomandthesolidsrecycleinlet,affectsthehydrodynamicsintherisersignificantly.However,thesuspensionsectionhasreceivedlessattentioncomparedwithothergeometricfactors.Mostcomputationalfluiddynamics(CFD)simulations,especiallytwo-dimensionalsimulationsdonottakethisfactorintoaccount.Weperformedthree-dimensional,full-loopCFDsimulationswithadragcoefficientthatwasdeterminedbytheenergy-minimizationmulti-scalemodel,andinvestigatedtheflowbehavioroftwoCFBswithdifferentsuspension-sectionlengths.ThesimulationresuitsrevealedthattheaxialprofilesofvoidageintheriserwithalongersuspensionsectionaremorelikelyS-shaped,whereasthosewithshortersuspensionsectionsdecayexponentially.ThedependencesofsolidsfluxonsolidsinventorydifferinthetwoCFBs.Ashortersuspensionsectionmayresultinasmoothtransitionfromdilutetodensetransportwithoutintermediateaccumulativechoki-ng,whereasaIongersuspensionsectionmayleadtoachokingtransition.Thesesimulationresultsarequalitativelyconsistentwiththeflowbehaviorsdescribedinliterature.