Experimental assessment of the combustion performance of an oven burner operated on pipeline natural gas mixed with hydrogen

With the increasing need to reduce greenhouse gas emission and adopt sustainability in combustion systems, injection of renewable gases into the pipeline natural gas is of great interest. Due to high specific energy density and various potential sources, hydrogen is a competitive energy carrier and a promising gaseous fuel to replace natural gas in the future. To test the end use impact of hydrogen injection into the natural gas pipeline infrastructure, the present study has been carried out to evaluate the fuel interchangeability between hydrogen and natural gas in a residential commercial oven burner. Various combustion performance characteristics were evaluated, including flashback limits, ignition performance, flame characteristics, combustion noise, burner temperature and emissions (NO, NO₂, N₂O, CO, UHC, NH₃). Primary air entrainment process was also investigated. Several correlations for predicting air entrainment were compared and evaluated for accuracy based on the measured fuel/air concentration results in the burner. The results indicate that 25% (by volume) hydrogen can be added to natural gas without significant impacts. Above this amount, flashback in the burner tube is the limiting factor. Hydrogen addition has minimal impact on NO_X emission while expectedly decreasing CO emissions. As the amount of hydrogen increases in the fuel, the ability of the fuel to entrain primary air decreases.     

上进风与台式灶引射性能测试及其比较

对一种纯上进风燃气灶和一种台式灶的引射性能进行了实验研究，通过气相色谱分析的方法确定了一次空气系数和炉头温度随着喷嘴前压力的变化规律。实验结果表明：随着喷嘴前压力的变化，上进风炉头的一次空气系数由于炉头温度较高而变化较大；而普通进风方式的引射器的压力适应性要强得多。试验的结果可供新型结构燃气灶的设计参考。     

预热对陶瓷燃烧器燃烧过程的影响

应用计算机模拟技术研究了不同空气和煤气预报温度对陶瓷燃烧过程的影响,通过研究发现不同的预热度对燃烧火焰的长度影响显著,配置合理的温度是热风炉操作一个有效的调节手段。     

通过煤粉浓缩预热低NOx燃烧器实现高温空气燃烧技术的研究

以煤粉浓缩预热低NOx燃烧器(PRP)为例,说明了通过组织高温烟气回流快速预热低风煤比的一次风煤粉气流,可以在燃煤锅炉上实现具有高稳燃和低NOx排放性能的高温空气燃烧.工业试验和应用表明:PRP燃烧器特殊的预热室结构可以有效控制一次风粉的预热,快速加热煤粉颗粒并使之在达到燃烧器喷口时接近着火温度,因而具有优异的煤种适应性、低负荷稳燃能力和低NOx排放特性,是在燃煤锅炉上实现高温空气燃烧的一种良好的燃烧器.     

液化石油气烧嘴的试验研究

介绍了LYS2液化石油气烧嘴的结构特点和热工特点。它具有空－煤气混合好、调节比大、助烧空气压力低、可用于冷风或热风、适应性强等特点。     

甲烷/高温烟气稀释空气的Mild燃烧过程的数值研究

中低氧浓度稀释MILD燃烧与传统有焰燃烧方式相比,燃烧室内温度相对均匀,可以有效控制和降低NO_X等污染物排放。燃烧室内的烟气循环导致的混合气稀释程度、预热温度以及流场应变率对Mild燃烧过程有重要影响。通过对不同稀释和预热程度的一维层流对撞扩散火焰进行计算,研究了烟气回流稀释/预热形成的Mild燃烧情况。数值计算结果表明,Mild燃烧能很好的控制燃烧场的最高温度和反应放热速率,得到较为均匀的温度场,并因此降低产物中污染物的浓度。对不同预热温度、不同拉伸率下工况的计算证明了Mild燃烧能够扩展燃料的燃烧极限,Mild燃烧对流场等外部干扰的敏感度较小,燃烧稳定。     

Laminar flow with combustion in inert porous media

This work presents one-dimensional numerical results for combustion of an air/methane mixture in inert porous media using laminar and radiation models. Comparisons with experimental data are reported. The burner is composed by a preheating section followed by a combustion region. Macroscopic equations for mass, momentum and energy are obtained based on the volume average concept. Distinct energy equations are considered for the porous burner and the flowing gas. The numerical technique employed for discretizing the governing equations was the control volume method with a boundary-fitted non-orthogonal coordinate system. The SIMPLE algorithm was used to relax the entire equation set. Inlet velocity, excess air, porosity and solid-to-fluid thermal conductivity ratio were varied in order to investigate their effect on temperature profiles. Results indicate that higher inlet velocities result in higher gas temperatures, following a similar trend observed in the experimental data used for comparisons. Burning of mixtures close to the stoichiometric conditions also increased temperatures, as expected. Increasing the thermal conductivity of the preheating section reduced peak temperature in the combustion region. The use of porous material with very high thermal conductivity on the combustion region did not affect significantly temperature levels in the combustion section.     

预热室结构对多段式自预热燃烧器内燃烧及NOx排放特性的影响

提出了一种多段式自预热燃烧器及其4种典型的预热室结构,通过计算流体力学（CFD）方法研究了燃烧室内流场、烟气卷吸率、温度场、燃气燃尽率以及NOx体积分数,并与传统燃烧器的情况进行了对比．结果表明：与传统燃烧器相比,多段式自预热燃烧器改变了燃烧室内流场,对低热值燃料适应性强,其预热室结构同时影响烟气卷吸率和预热效果,并最终影响燃尽率与NOx体积分数;此外,燃烧器负荷对燃尽率影响甚微,但对NOx体积分数影响较大．     

An experimental study of mild flameless combustion of methane/hydrogen mixtures

This paper presents an experimental study of mild flameless combustion regime applied to methane/hydrogen mixtures in a laboratory-scale pilot furnace with or without air preheating. Results show that mild flameless combustion regime is achieved from pure methane to pure hydrogen whatever the CH₄/H₂ proportion. The main reaction zone remains lifted from the burner exit, in the mixing layer of fuel and air jets ensuring a large dilution correlated to low NOx emissions whereas CO₂ concentrations obviously decrease with hydrogen proportion. A decrease of NOx emissions is measured for larger quantity of hydrogen due mainly to the decrease of prompt NO formation. Without air preheating, a slight increase of the excess air ratio is required to control CO emissions. For pure hydrogen fuel without air preheating, mild flameless combustion regime leads to operating conditions close to a "zero emission furnace", with ultra-low NOx emissions and without any carbonated species emissions.     

蓄热式钢包烘烤器气体混合特性数值模拟

利用CFD通用商业软件模拟了蓄热式钢包烘烤器的流场和气体混合状况,比较了不同空气喷入速度、不同空煤气烧嘴间距、不同空气预热温度等不同工况对空煤气混合状况的影响,并定量分析了这些影响的大小和趋势.为蓄热式钢包烘烤器燃烧装置的合理设计提供依据.     

W型火焰锅炉节油技术集成应用

为减少锅炉点火和助燃用油,结合W型火焰锅炉燃烧系统的设计特点和运行耗油情况,在不改变主燃烧器结构形式的前提下,吸取等离子点火技术、少油点火技术和微油点火技术的优点,将原油枪的普通喷嘴改造为高效的油汽双旋流联合雾化油喷嘴、采用邻炉提供冷炉制粉热风和提高锅炉底部加热能力等技术措施实现锅炉启动采用以煤代油方式升温升压,减少了大量燃油消耗,具有推广价值和明显经济效益。     

固定床玉米秸燃烧特性的实验研究

影响生物质燃烧特性的因素主要包括燃料长度、空气预热温度、送风量和燃料含水量。研究了上述因素对玉米秸的燃烧特性，包括指燃料失重率、炉内温度以及炉内的气体成分的影响，并对影响的机理进行了相应的分析。     

单元熔窑燃烧过程数值模拟

对单元熔窑燃烧空间内的流动,燃烧及辐射传热等过程进行数值模拟研究,比较燃烧布置方式对火焰形状及传热过程中的影响,结果表明,对于所研究的宽度为3．2m的窑炉,燃烧器的布置应采用错排方式。     

Operational characteristics of a parallel jet MILD combustion burner system

This study describes the performance and stability characteristics of a parallel jet MILD (Moderate or Intense Low-oxygen Dilution) combustion burner system in a laboratory-scale furnace, in which the reactants and exhaust ports are all mounted on the same wall. Thermal field measurements are presented for cases with and without combustion air preheat, in addition to global temperature and emission measurements for a range of equivalence ratio, heat extraction, air preheat and fuel dilution levels. The present furnace/burner configuration proved to operate without the need for external air preheating, and achieved a high degree of temperature uniformity. Based on an analysis of the temperature distribution and emissions, PSR model predictions, and equilibrium calculations, the CO formation was found to be related to the mixing patterns and furnace temperature rather than reaction quenching by the heat exchanger. The critical equivalence ratio, or excess air level, which maintains low CO emissions is reported for different heat exchanger positions, and an optimum operating condition is identified. Results of CO and NO_x emissions, together with visual observations and a simplified two-dimensional analysis of the furnace aerodynamics, demonstrate that fuel jet momentum controls the stability of this multiple jet system. A stability diagram showing the threshold for stable operation is reported, which is not explained by previous stability criteria.     

旋流对天然气高温空气燃烧特性影响的数值模拟

以工业炉的高温空气燃烧技术应用为背景,对一个新型轴向旋流式单烧嘴燃烧室内天然气的高温空气燃烧特性进行了数值研究。采用数值模拟的方法研究了同心式轴向旋流燃烧器（HCASbumer）中螺旋肋片的旋转角度对燃烧特性的影响,其中湍流采用Reynolds应力模型,气相燃烧模拟采用β函数形式的PDF燃烧模型,采用离散坐标法模拟辐射换热过程,NOx模型为热力型与快速型。计算结果表明,对预热空气采用旋转射流时,能明显降低NOx生成量。对于HCAS型燃烧器,随着空气射流旋转角度的增大,燃烧室内的回流区域增大增强,降低了局部的氧体积分数分布,燃烧室中平均温度和最高温度都有所增加,且燃烬程度大幅度提高,而局部高温区缩小,只在靠近入口处出现。总的NOx排放量随着空气射流旋转角度的增大先减小,后增大。因此,适当调整肋片的旋转角度可以降低NOx生成量。     

Liftoff heights of turbulent non-premixed flames in co-flows diluted by CO2/N2

The objective of this study was to propose a new model for the prediction of the liftoff heights of turbulent flames diluted by the entrainment of burned gases. In combustion furnaces with the internal recirculation of burned gases, mixtures of fuel and oxidizer are diluted with recirculated burned gases through entrainment into the gas jets. We focused on the effects which dilution resulting from entrainment has on the stabilization mechanism of lifted flames. In order to investigate the effects of dilution on liftoff height, we employed a concentric burner incorporating fuel, oxidizer and co-flow gas nozzles. The recirculated burned gas was simulated by co-flow air diluted with either N₂ or CO₂ gas. Liftoff heights were observed to increase with decreasing O₂ concentrations in the co-flow gas when maintaining a constant O₂ concentration in the oxidizer, due to dilution resulting from entrainment of the diluted co-flow gas. The liftoff heights obtained with co-flow gases diluted by CO₂ were greater than those obtained when diluting with N₂ due to both thermal and chemical dilution effects. The conventional premixed model was not able to predict the liftoff trends observed in this study and we therefore propose a modified premixed model which takes into account the dilution effect resulting from entrainment. In this model, the amount of entrained co-flow gas is evaluated according to the self-similarity law of a round jet. Non-dimensional liftoff heights based on this modified model exhibit excellent linear correlation with non-dimensional fuel gas velocities, even when various co-flow gases are used for dilution. The conventional large eddy model was also modified in the same manner and the results obtained from the modified model exhibit satisfactory correlation.     

助燃空气旋转动量对燃气燃烧过程及NO_X生成量的影响

应用数值模拟方法,对一种新型燃气烧嘴的燃烧特性进行了研究。重点分析了助燃空气旋转动量对该新型烧嘴的燃烧特性以及NO_x生成量的影响。结果表明,随着助燃空气旋转动量的不断增加,沿燃烧器轴心线方向速度衰减速率越快,炉膛内的高温区域越向燃烧器喷口附近区域集中,炉膛出口No_x的生成量呈先增大后减小的趋势,在助燃空气旋角为30°时为最大。     

Swirling distributed combustion for clean energy conversion in gas turbine applications

Distributed combustion provides significant performance improvement of gas turbine combustors. Key features of distributed combustion includes uniform thermal field in the entire combustion chamber, thus avoiding hot-spot regions that promote NO_x emissions (from thermal NO_x) and significantly improved pattern factor. Rapid mixing between the injected fuel and hot oxidizer has been carefully explored for spontaneous ignition of the mixture to achieve distributed combustion reactions. Distributed reactions can be achieved in premixed, partially premixed or non-premixed modes of combustor operation with sufficient entrainment of hot and active species present in the flame and their rapid turbulent mixing with the reactants. Distributed combustion with swirl is investigated here for our quest to explore the beneficial aspects of such flows on clean combustion in simulated gas turbine combustion conditions. The goal is to develop high intensity combustor with ultra low emissions of NO and CO, and much improved pattern factor. Experimental results are reported from a cylindrical geometry combustor with different modes of fuel injection and gas exit stream location in the combustor. In all the configurations, air was injected tangentially to impart swirl to the flow inside the combustor. Ultra-low NO_x emissions were found for both the premixed and non-premixed combustion modes for the geometries investigated here. Swirling flow configuration, wherein the product gas exits axially resulted in characteristics closest to premixed combustion mode. Change in fuel injection location resulted in changing the combustion characteristics from traditional diffusion mode to distributed combustion regime. Results showed very low levels of NO (∼3 PPM) and CO (∼70 PPM) emissions even at rather high equivalence ratio of 0.7 at a high heat release intensity of 36 MW/m³-atm with non-premixed mode of combustion. Results are also reported on lean stability limit and OH^* chemiluminescence under both premixed and non-premixed conditions for determining the extent of distribution combustion conditions.     

Numerical and experimental investigation of a mild combustion burner

An industrial burner operating in the MILD combustion regime through internal recirculation of exhaust gases has been characterized numerically. To develop a self-sufficient numerical model of the burner, two subroutines are coupled to the CFD solver to model the air preheater section and heat losses from the burner through radiation. The resulting model is validated against experimental data on species concentration and temperature. A 3-dimensional CFD model of the burner is compared to an axisymmetric model, which allows considerable computational saving, but neglects some important burner features such as the presence of recirculation windows. Errors associated with the axisymmetric model are evaluated and discussed, as well as possible simplified procedures for engineering purposes. Modifications of the burner geometry are investigated numerically and suggested in order to enhance its performances. Such modifications are aimed at improving exhaust gases recirculation which is driven by the inlet air jet momentum. The burner is found to produce only 30 ppm_v of NO when operating in MILD combustion mode. For the same air preheating the NO emissions would be of approximately 1000 ppm_v in flame combustion mode. It is also shown that the burner ensures more homogeneous temperature distribution in the outer surfaces with respect to flame operation, and this is attractive for burners used in furnaces devoted to materials' thermal treatment processes. The effect of air excess on the combustion regime is also discussed.     

Mechanism analysis on the pulverized coal combustion flame stability and NOx emission in a swirl burner with deep air staging

Low NOx burner and air staged combustion are widely applied to control NOx emission in coal-fired power plants. The gas-solid two-phase flow, pulverized coal combustion and NOx emission characteristics of a single low NOx swirl burner in an existing coal-fired boiler was numerically simulated to analyze the mechanisms of flame stability and in-flame NOx reduction. And the detailed NOx formation and reduction model under fuel rich conditions was employed to optimize NOx emissions for the low NOx burner with air staged combustion of different burner stoichiometric ratios. The results show that the specially-designed swirl burner structures including the pulverized coal concentrator, flame stabilizing ring and baffle plate create an ignition region of high gas temperature, proper oxygen concentration and high pulverized coal concentration near the annular recirculation zone at the burner outlet for flame stability. At the same time, the annular recirculation zone is generated between the primary and secondary air jets to promote the rapid ignition and combustion of pulverized coal particles to consume oxygen, and then a reducing region is formed as fuel-rich environment to contribute to in-flame NO_X reduction. Moreover, the NOx concentration at the outlet of the combustion chamber is greatly reduced when the deep air staged combustion with the burner stoichiometric ratio of 0.75 is adopted, and the CO concentration at the outlet of the combustion chamber can be maintained simultaneously at a low level through the over-fired air injection of high velocity to enhance the mixing of the fresh air with the flue gas, which can provide the optimal solution for lower NOx emission in the existing coal-fired boilers.