Boundary effects on thermophoresis of aerosol cylinders

An analytical study is presented for the thermophoretic motion of a circular cylindrical particle in a gaseous medium with a transversely imposed temperature gradient near a large plane wall parallel to its axis in the quasisteady limit of negligible Peclet and Reynolds numbers. The Knudsen number is assumed to be small so that the fluid flow is described by a continuum model with a temperature jump, a thermal slip, and a frictional slip at the particle surface. The presence of the confining wall causes two basic effects on the particle velocity: first, the local temperature gradient on the particle surface is altered by the wall, thereby speeding up or slowing down the particle; secondly, the wall enhance the viscous retardation of the moving particle. Through the use of cylindrical bipolar coordinates, the transport equations governing this problem are solved and the wall effects on the thermophoresis of the aerosol cylinder are computed for various cases. The presence of the plane wall can reduce or enhance the particle velocity, depending upon the relative thermal conductivity and surface properties of the particle, the relative particle-wall separation distance, and the direction of the applied temperature gradient. The direction of the thermophoretic motion of a cylindrical particle near a plane wall is different from that of the prescribed thermal gradient, except when it is oriented parallel or perpendicular to the wall. The effects of the plane wall on the thermophoresis of a cylinder are found to be much more significant than those for a sphere at the same separation.     

双出口分级气流床气化炉内颗粒速度和浓度分布

煤炭分级利用是煤炭高效低碳利用的主要途径之一,提出一种同时制备热解气和合成气的分级气流床气化炉,炉体上部为煤热解室,下部为煤焦气化室。采用PV6M颗粒测速仪对气化炉内固体颗粒的速度和浓度分布进行测量,并运用CFD软件对气化炉内气固两相流场进行模拟。结果表明,在射流发展区域与射流碰撞后的折射流发展区域,颗粒速度较高;边壁区域颗粒速度较低且出现回流现象。在惯性和气流曳力作用下,热解室内大部分颗粒自流进入气化室。热解室上部径向颗粒浓度中心高边壁低;气化室下部径向颗粒浓度中心低边壁高。热解室与气化室进气量比、喷嘴角度及颗粒直径等对气化炉出口颗粒流出量分配有重要的影响。热解室进气量增大,颗粒从热解室出口流出占比先减小后增大;热解喷嘴偏转角与颗粒Stokes数增大,颗粒从热解室出口流出占比减小。     

双出口分级气流床气化炉内颗粒速度和浓度分布

煤炭分级利用是煤炭高效低碳利用的主要途径之一,提出一种同时制备热解气和合成气的分级气流床气化炉,炉体上部为煤热解室,下部为煤焦气化室。采用PV6M颗粒测速仪对气化炉内固体颗粒的速度和浓度分布进行测量,并运用CFD软件对气化炉内气固两相流场进行模拟。结果表明,在射流发展区域与射流碰撞后的折射流发展区域,颗粒速度较高;边壁区域颗粒速度较低且出现回流现象。在惯性和气流曳力作用下,热解室内大部分颗粒自流进入气化室。热解室上部径向颗粒浓度中心高边壁低;气化室下部径向颗粒浓度中心低边壁高。热解室与气化室进气量比、喷嘴角度及颗粒直径等对气化炉出口颗粒流出量分配有重要的影响。热解室进气量增大,颗粒从热解室出口流出占比先减小后增大;热解喷嘴偏转角与颗粒Stokes数增大,颗粒从热解室出口流出占比减小。     

Numerical simulation of the bubbling fluidized bed coal gasification by the kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF)

A new numerical model based on the two-fluid model (TFM) including the kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) and complicated reactions has been developed to simulate coal gasification in a bubbling fluidized bed gasifier (BFBG). The collision between particles is described by KTGF. The coal gasification rates are determined by combining Arrhenius rate and diffusion rate for heterogeneous reactions or turbulent mixing rate for homogeneous reactions. The flow behaviors of gas and solid phases in the bed and freeboard can be predicted, which are not easy to be measured through the experiments. The calculated exit values of gas composition are agreed well with the experimental data. The relationship between gas composition profiles with the height of gasifier and the distributions of temperature, gas and solid velocity and solid volume fraction were discussed.     

煤粉粒径对HNCERI气化炉碳转化率与固/液渣层分布的影响

以中国华能集团清洁能源技术研究院（Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute,HNCERI）两段干粉加压气化炉为研究对象,采用考虑了焦炭颗粒表面气体组分扩散效应的随机孔模型计算焦炭气化反应速率以评估碳转化率。同时,耦合熔渣子模型计算气化炉一段壁面固液渣层分布特性和热损失,研究了煤粉粒径对HNCERI气化炉碳转化率和固液渣层分布特性的影响。结果表明所构建的模型可以准确预测气化炉出口主要气体组分组成、碳转化率和气化炉一段壁面热损失;气化炉一段碳转化率受固有气化速率和停留时间控制,二段主要受颗粒停留时间控制;因此,通过减小煤粉粒径可以减小气体在颗粒表面扩散阻力,有利于提高气化炉一段碳转化率,而适量增加煤粉粒径可以增加煤粉颗粒在气化炉二段的停留时间,有利于提高二段碳转化率。模拟结果显示煤粉颗粒粒径从20μm增加到200μm,一段碳转化率从99.68%降低到了95.06%,二段碳转化率从69.03%增加到了89%。煤粉粒径对气化炉上缩口和直段壁面液态渣层分布影响很小,但显著影响固态渣层厚度的发展。     

盈德清华炉水煤浆气化工艺的影响因素研究

以过程模拟软件为工具,通过合理的简化与假设,建立了以氧气为气化剂的水煤浆气流床煤气化的研究模型,模拟计算了盈德清华炉的水煤浆气化过程,分析了煤中碳含量、灰分含量、水煤浆质量分数、操作温度、水冷壁副产蒸汽量等因素对比煤耗、比氧耗、合成气产量、合成气中各气体组分含量的影响。模型计算结果与生产实际运行数据对比表明,该模型能较好地反映运行工厂的实际生产情况。利用经过生产实际运行数据修正的研究模型,可研究煤质组成、煤浆质量分数、操作温度、水冷壁副产蒸汽量等因素对主要气化工艺指标的影响。     

Numerical simulation of coal gasification in entrained flow coal gasifier

This paper presents modeling of a coal gasification reaction, and prediction of gasification performance for an entrained flow coal gasifier. The purposes of this study are to develop an evaluation technique for design and performance optimization of coal gasifiers using a numerical simulation technique, and to confirm the validity of the model. The coal gasification model suggested in this paper is composed of a pyrolysis model, char gasification model, and gas phase reaction model. A numerical simulation with the coal gasification model is performed on the CRIEPI 2 tons/day (T/D) research scale coal gasifier. Influence of the air ratio on gasification performance, such as a per pass carbon conversion efficiency, amount of product char, a heating value of the product gas, and cold gas efficiency is presented with regard to the 2 T/D gasifier. Gas temperature distribution and product gas composition are also presented. A comparison between the calculation and experimental data shows that most features of the gasification performance were identified accurately by the numerical simulation, confirming the validity of the current model.     

二次氧量对分级气化炉气化特性的影响

分级给氧气流床气化炉具有碳转化率高、炉内混合过程强烈、喷嘴附近温度较低等优点。本文采用CFD数值模拟的方法研究了二次氧量变化对气化炉运行特性的影响,分析比较了不同二次给氧量下相交射流火焰特性的变化,及相交射流对煤气化炉炉内整体混合过程、煤气化特性的影响。发现当二次给氧量下降时,受炉内回流流场的影响,二次火焰明显随回流发生偏斜,壁面温度升高。当二次给氧量小于总给氧量的8%时,其射流动量不足以影响主射流产生的宏观流场。     

The relative hydrogen saturation factor and its use for material balance analysis of underground coal gasification

Steady oxygen and hydrogen conservation relationships for an underground coal gasification reactor were combined with a simple model for the evolution of oxygen and hydrogen within the gasifier to yield a relationship for the fraction of evolved carbon originating from char gasification. This relationship is independent of the flow terms due to injection and production of water, whether the gas which leaks from the gasifier is like injected gas or produced gas. The relationship is a function of a dimensionless parameter called the relative hydrogen saturation factor of the evolved gas. Equations based on the concept of the relative hydrogen saturation factor are given for the carbon recovery efficiency and the fraction of exploited coal which has been completely gasified. Data from two field experiments were analysed. Results indicate that the relative hydrogen saturation factor is a valuable monitor of the relative importance of char gasification. The carbon recovery efficiency predicted by the analysis compares fairly well with the value measured from an excavation of a gasification site. The fraction of evolved carbon originating from char gasification, the carbon recovery efficiency, and the fraction of exploited coal which has been completely gasified are given for each field test.     

Carbon particle type characterization of the carbon behaviour impacting on a commercial-scale Sasol-Lurgi FBDB gasifier

Char-form analysis, whilst not yet an ISO standard, is a relatively common characterization method applied to pulverized coal samples used by power utilities globally. Fixed-bed gasification coal feeds differ from pulverized fuel combustion feeds by nature of the initial particle size (+6 mm, −75 mm). Hence it is unlikely that combustion char morphological characterization schemes can be directly applied to fixed-bed gasifier chars. In this study, a unique carbon particle type analysis was developed to characterize the physical (and inferred chemical) changes occurring in the particles during gasification based on coal petrography and combustion char morphology. A range of samples sequentially sampled from a quenched commercial-scale Sasol-Lurgi fixed-bed dry-bottom (FBDB) Gasifier were thus analysed.It was determined that maceral type (specifically vitrinite and inertinite) plays a pivotal role in the changes experienced by carbon particles when exposed to increasing temperature within the gasifier. Whole vitrinite particles and vitrinite bands within particles devolatilized first, followed at higher temperatures by reactive inertinite types. By the end of the pyrolysis zone, all the coal particles were converted to char, becoming consumed in the oxidation/combustion zone as the charge further descended within the gasifier.The carbon particle type results showed that both the porous and carbominerite char types follow similar burn-out profiles. These char types formed in the slower pyrolysis region within the pyrolysis zone, increasing to around 10% by volume within the reduction zone, where 53% carbon conversion occurred. Both of these char forms were consumed by the time the charge reached the ash-grate at the base of the reactor, and therefore did not contribute to the carbon loss in the ash discharge. It would appear as if the dense char and intermediate char types are responsible for the few percent carbon loss that is consistently obtained at the gasification operations.The carbon particle type analysis developed for coarse coal to the gasification process was shown to provide a significant insight into the behaviour of the carbon particles during gasification, both as a stand alone analysis and in conjunction with the other chemical and physical analyses performed on the fixed-bed gasifier samples.     

SIMULATION OF PARTICLE TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION IN A COMBUSTOR

A computational model for Lagrangian particle tracking for studying dispersion and deposition of particles in a combustor with swirling flow and chemical reaction is developed. The model accounts for the effect of thermophoretic force, as well as the drag and lift forces acting on particles, in addition to the Brownian motion and gravitational sedimentation effects. The mean turbulent gas flow, temperature fields and chemical species concentration in the combustor are evaluated using the stress transport turbulent model of the FLUENT code. The instantaneous fluctuation velocity field is generated by a Gaussian filtered white noise model.

The simulated axial, radial and tangential mean gas velocities are compared with the existing experimental data. Ensembles of particle trajectories are generated and statistically analyzed. The effects of size and initial distribution on particle dispersion and deposition are studied. The particle concentration at different sections are also evaluated and discussed. The results shows that the turbulence dispersion effect is quite important, while the thermophoresis effect is small.     

煤的水蒸汽及二氧化碳高温气化活性评价

选用燃料比(固定碳/挥发份)1到8,变质程度从褐煤到无烟煤(包括粘结性的和非粘结性的)的六种煤焦为试样,在1100—1400℃下,用热重量法进行了含O_2、H_2O、CO_2气化剂的实验室气化,用修正体积反应模型式进行了数据处理和活性评价.并将高温区的结果与低温区(1000℃以下)的实验结果进行了比较.     

Gasification rate analysis of coal char with a pressurized drop tube furnace

Two coal chars were gasified with carbon dioxide or steam using a Pressurized Drop Tube Furnace (PDTF) at high temperature and pressurized conditions to simulate the inside of an air-blown two-stage entrained flow coal gasifier. Chars were produced by rapid pyrolysis of pulverized coals using a DTF in a nitrogen gas flow at 1400°C. Gasification temperatures were from 1100 to 1500°C and pressures were from 0.2 to 2 MPa. As a result, the surface area of the gasified char increased rapidly with the progress of gasification up to about six times the size of initial surface area and peaked at about 40% of char gasification. These changes of surface area and reaction rate could be described with a random pore model and a gasification reaction rate equation was derived. Reaction order was 0.73 for gasification of the coal char with carbon dioxide and 0.86 for that with steam. Activation energy was 163 kJ/mol for gasification with carbon dioxide and 214 kJ/mol for that with steam. At high temperature as the reaction rate with carbon dioxide is about 0.03 s⁻¹, the reaction rate of the coal char was controlled by pore diffusion, while that of another coal char was controlled by surface reaction where reaction order was 0.49 and activation energy was 261 kJ/mol.     

滴管炉内不同煤阶煤焦水蒸气气化反应特性

在滴管炉内对煤焦与水蒸气气化反应进行了实验研究,考察了煤阶、气化温度、水蒸气与进料煤焦质量比（气焦比）对气化气体产物释放特性以及煤焦转化率的影响。实验温度为1100、1200、1300和1400℃,气焦比分别为0.4：1、0.6：1和1：1。研究发现：滴管炉内不同煤焦的水蒸气气化气体产物以H₂含量最高,CH₄含量最低。不同煤阶热解焦、气化温度以及气焦比的变化影响滴管炉内水蒸气气化产物气体组成和转化率的高低。随气化温度的升高,神府煤焦和北宿煤焦气化气体产物中H₂和CO产率不断增大,H₂/CO的比值则逐渐减小,碳转化率有不断增加的趋势。在气化温度大于1200℃的条件下,当气焦比从0.4：1增至0.6：1,神府煤焦和北宿煤焦的碳转化率变化幅度不大（5%以内）;当气焦比从0.6：1增至1：1,北宿煤焦的碳转化率略微降低,而神府煤焦的碳转化率增幅则在15%以上。     

高温烟气中煤焦气化行为

针对高温烟气中煤焦的气化行为，本文采用FactSage 6.1计算了煤焦在高温烟气下的高温反应特性，并利用热重分析仪分析了煤焦气化行为。通过沉降炉实验进一步研究了不同温度、气体配比、粒径条件下气体产物的动态析出特性，同时计算了评价指标α、β、LHV值。结果表明：随着温度的升高，气体产物H₂和CO的含量增加，β、α、LHV值增大，CH₄和CO₂的含量下降。在温度为1200℃时，β、α值分别由CO₂/CO比为10∶70时的10.80%、5.21%增加到CO₂/CO比为50∶30时的24.71%、41.06%。同时，随着CO₂/CO比值的增大，高温烟气对煤焦气化反应抑制减弱。通过对比反应温度和粒径对煤焦气化反应的影响，得出反应温度远大于粒径对煤焦气化反应的影响。通过实验验证了向高温烟气中喷吹煤焦制备高品质可燃气体方法的可行性。     

串行流化床煤气化试验

针对串行流化床煤气化技术特点,以水蒸气为气化剂,在串行流化床试验装置上进行煤气化特性的试验研究,考察了气化反应器温度、蒸汽煤比对煤气组成、热值、冷煤气效率和碳转化率的影响。结果表明,燃烧反应器内燃烧烟气不会串混至气化反应器,该煤气化技术能够稳定连续地从气化反应器获得不含N₂的高品质合成气。随着气化反应器温度的升高、蒸汽煤比的增加,煤气热值和冷煤气效率均会提高,但对碳转化率影响有所不同。在试验阶段获得的最高煤气热值为6.9 MJ•m^-3,冷煤气效率为68％,碳转化率为92％。     

Effect of biomass particle size and air superficial velocity on the gasification process in a downdraft fixed bed gasifier. An experimental and modelling study

A one-dimensional stationary model of biomass gasification in a fixed bed downdraft gasifier is presented in this paper. The model is based on the mass and energy conservation equations and includes the energy exchange between solid and gaseous phases, and the heat transfer by radiation from the solid particles. Different gasification sub-processes are incorporated: biomass drying, pyrolysis, oxidation of char and volatile matter, chemical reduction of H₂, CO₂ and H₂O by char, and hydrocarbon reforming. The model was validated experimentally in a small-scale gasifier by comparing the experimental temperature fields, biomass burning rates and fuel/air equivalence ratios with predicted results. A good agreement between experimental and estimated results was achieved. The model can be used as a tool to study the influence of process parameters, such as biomass particle mean diameter, air flow velocity, gasifier geometry, composition and inlet temperature of the gasifying agent and biomass type, on the process propagation velocity (flame front velocity) and its efficiency. The maximum efficiency was obtained with the smaller particle size and lower air velocity. It was a consequence of the higher fuel/air ratio in the gasifier and so the production of a gas with a higher calorific value.     

Experiment and mathematical modeling of a bench-scale circulating fluidized bed gasifier

The gasification of two different coals and chars with CO₂ and CO₂/O₂ mixture in a 48-mm-i.d. circulating fluidized bed (CFB) gasifier is investigated. The effects of operation condition on gas composition, carbon conversion and gasification efficiency were studied. A simple CFB coal gasification district mathematical model has been set up. The effects of coal type and CFB operating conditions on CFB coal gasification are discussed based on the CFB gasification test and model simulation. The main operation parameters in CFB gasification system are coal type, gas superficial velocity, circulating rate of solids and reaction temperature. It is found that CO concentration and carbon conversion increase with increasing solids circulating rate and decreasing gas velocity due to the increase in gas residence time and solids holdup in the CFB. The carbon conversion increases with increasing temperature and O₂ concentration in the inlet gas. The experimental results prove that the CFB gasifier works well for high volatile, high reactivity coal.     

射流预氧化流化床气化炉中黏结性煤的反应特性

针对现有流化床气化技术难以处理黏结性、高含灰洗中煤的问题, 中国科学院过程工程研究所开发了可处理黏结性碎煤的射流预氧化流化床气化技术, 该技术利用含氧气体将煤颗粒快速喷射送入预氧化区内破除其黏结性, 形成的半焦进入气化区内发生气化反应, 进而实现对黏结性煤的利用。本工作采用小型流化床射流预氧化反应装置研究较强黏结性煤预氧化破黏后的产物分布、半焦结构与活性变化, 并考察气化操作条件(温度、当量空气系数、水煤比等)对半焦气化行为的影响。结果表明:当预氧化区温度为950℃、当量空气系数为0.13时, 黏结性煤生成半焦的孔结构和气化活性较好;当半焦气化区温度为1000℃、当量空气系数为0.17、水蒸气与煤质量比为0.09时, 生成燃气的品质较好, 而且生成焦油中的轻质组分最多, 有利于焦油被进一步脱除。研究结果可为射流预氧化气化技术的设计放大提供基础数据。     

GSP气化炉内多相湍流反应流动模拟研究

采用涡耗散概念(EDC)模型,对某化工厂的GSP气化炉内多相反应流场进行了数值模拟研究.计算中采用Realizable k-ε湍流模型对雷诺平均后的N-S方程进行封闭;采用离散相随机轨道模型来模拟气化炉内煤颗粒的弥散运动;采用P1模型对燃烧的辐射传热进行模拟.计算结果表明:气化炉内为强旋射流流场,颗粒在气化炉顶部回流区...