生物质燃烧积灰、结渣与腐蚀特性

基于生物质及其与煤共燃过程中灰污和熔渣形成机制的复杂性,使其成为近年来国内外的研究热点.主要介绍了生物质及当与煤混燃时的积灰、结渣与腐蚀特性,从燃烧特性、形成机理、研究方法及改善措施等4个方面进行总结,以此加深对生物质燃烧过程中存在问题的系统认识.     

生物质与煤混合燃烧成灰特性研究进展

基于能源与环境的双重压力以及生物质与煤单独燃用存在的问题,生物质与煤混燃已成为一种发展趋势.生物质与煤混燃存在的结渣积灰等问题制约着混燃技术的推广利用,因此研究生物质与煤混合燃烧的成灰特性具有现实意义.文章详细介绍了生物质与煤混合燃烧成灰特性的影响因素和分析方法,认为温度是影响生物质与煤混合燃烧成灰特性的主要因素;生物质与煤的混合比例对灰渣成分有一定影响,但二者间不存在明显的线性关系.燃料中的碱金属、氯、硫是引起结渣积灰的主要物质.由于生物质与煤的成灰特性相近,只是灰渣成分的含量差异较大,因此可以利用已有的煤结渣特性研究成果,分析混燃的成灰特性,但须要考虑生物质灰分的特征.     

生物质与煤混燃研究分析

通过对生物质与煤混燃的研究方法、优势、燃烧特性以及研究结论的介绍,阐明充分开发生物质资源,进行生物质与煤共燃的研究对解决我国能源问题具有现实意义.     

生物质与煤混烧灰的熔融性实验研究

为解决生物质与煤混燃存在的结渣积灰问题.以稻秸秆、白杨木屑、稻壳和煤在不同配比下混合燃烧的灰分作为研究对象,利用HR-3C灰熔融性测定仪研究了生物质与煤混合燃烧的熔融特性.研究表明:生物质燃料中碱金属含量比煤中的含量要高,提高生物质的掺入比总体上会使灰熔融温度降低;此外,对于二氧化硅含量不同的生物质燃料其灰熔融性有所差...     

生物质与煤混燃的燃烧特性实验研究

利用热重分析仪研究了冷压成型生物质麦秆与煤混燃的燃烧特性,实验中生物质质量掺混比分别取0%、10%、50%、90%、100%。实验结果表明,掺入生物质有助于改善煤的燃烧特性;随生物质质量掺混比的增加,燃料的着火温度和燃尽温度降低,可燃烧性指数、燃尽特性指数、综合燃烧特性指数提高。     

生物质与煤共燃污染物的研究

简要阐述了生物质与煤共燃的意义及其应用前景.在此基础上,介绍了生物质与煤共燃的分类方法,总结了生物质与煤共燃的各种污染物状况,着重分析了生物质再燃脱除NOx以及利用生物质型煤脱除SOx的研究形状,最后指出了共燃研究中存在的问题.     

农作物废弃物与煤混燃发电的技术经济性——基于江苏省混燃案例的调研

农作物废弃物是我国的主要的生物质资源.农作物废弃物与煤混燃发电技术,能够借助燃煤电站原有的发电设备,具有较高的发电效率,可以实现农作物废弃物的大规模利用,并且有效降低二氧化碳、二氧化硫、氮氧化物等污染物的排放.目前,生物质与煤混燃技术方面的研究成果层出不穷,但是对已有的混燃案例进行经济性评估的探讨甚少.在对农作物废弃物与煤混燃案例作充分的调研基础上,从农作物废弃物的资源分布与收购模式,以及改造投资成本和发电成本方面综合分析农作物废弃物与煤混燃技术的经济性,并进一步分析了燃料成本,尤其是稻壳成本对发电成本的影响.     

生物质与煤直接共燃技术

由于化石燃料的使用而带来的能源危机和环境污染问题,生物质能因其特性（可再生性和环境友好性）受到广泛关注,各种生物质利用技术应运而生。主要介绍了生物质与煤共燃技术,特别是悬浮燃烧技术和流化床燃烧技术。两种燃烧技术各有特点,在实际应用中应充分考虑实际条件选择合适的燃烧方式。虽然生物质与煤共燃的优点显而易见,但是同时存在的缺点也不可忽视。我国在大规模利用生物质领域的技术还不成熟,应该总结前人的经验的同时结合自身特点利用先进技术更好地利用生物质资源。     

生物质与煤掺烧燃烧特性的实验研究

利用热重分析仪,在不同条件下,对单一生物质、煤及其混合物的燃烧特性进行分析,研究了木屑、稻壳、稻草及耒阳白沙煤的着火温度、燃烧最大速率温度和燃烬温度等燃烧特性参数。实验结果表明,生物质的着火温度比白沙煤低,生物质在燃烧过程中有两个明显的失重阶段,而煤只有一个明显的失重阶段。通过掺烧可以使生物质与煤的混合物着火温度降低,着火时间缩短,延长了整个燃烧的温度区间,使煤能更好地燃尽,使燃料的燃烧特性得到了优化。随着生物质掺混比例的提高,掺混样品着火点温度降低得更加明显;且生物质颗粒尺寸由R90变为R200时,同样的掺混比例下,尺寸R200的掺混样品着火温度更低。     

生物质与煤混燃灰熔融结渣特性的实验研究

通过对生物质燃料（锯末、玉米秸和麦秸）与煤混燃灰化学成分和熔融温度的测定,利用灰分的碱酸比B／A、硅比G、硅铝比S／A、积灰沾污特性指数Hw、磨损特性指数日。等判别指数对生物质纯燃、与煤混燃时的结渣、积灰和磨损特性进行了研究和分析。结果表明,生物质灰都具有结渣倾向,麦秸灰具有严重的积灰倾向,玉米秸灰和锯末灰有易积灰倾向。生物质灰的磨损倾向都较轻微。随着生物质与煤混燃比例的增加,结渣有加重趋势。灰中酸性氧化物和碱性氧化物的含量会直接影响灰的熔融温度。     

玉米秸秆与煤掺烧锅炉运行性能分析

基于ASPEN PLUS软件,对玉米秸秆与煤的掺烧过程进行建模与模拟,研究在不同的生物质掺混比例及含水率下,锅炉运行性能以及污染物排放的变化规律。结果表明:与单独燃烧煤粉相比,随着掺烧比例的增大,生成的理论烟气量和烟气热损失增大,锅炉效率有所降低,气体污染物NO及SO2减少;随着生物质含水率的增大,NO的排放量减少,而SO2的排放量增加。     

Full-scale co-firing trial tests of sawdust and bio-waste in pulverized coal-fired 230 t/h steam boiler

Co-firing trial tests of sawdust and bio-waste coming from cereal production with hard coal were carried out at Skawina Power Plant in Poland (1532 MW in fuel, currently belonging to CEZ Group). Skawina Power Plant is a tangentially-fired pulverized coal unit with nine boilers (4 boilers of 210 t/h and five boilers of 230 t/h live steam respectively) that produces 590 MW electricity and 618 MW of heat (district heating and process steam).The paper presents an analysis of energy and ecological effects of sawdust and bio-waste co-firing in the existing pulverized hard coal boiler. The mixture of coal and biomass was blended in the coal yard, and fed into the boiler through the coal mills. During the tests, combustion of mixtures composed of hard coal and sawdust (with mass share of 9.5%) and hard coal – bio-waste (6.6% mass basis) were examined. The co-firing tests were successful. Based on the analysis of the test results, the influence of biomass co-firing on specific components of energy balance (e.g. stack losses and boiler thermal efficiency) was discussed, in comparison to combustion of coal alone. The emission indices during coal combustion were calculated and compared to the emission indices for biomass co-firing. It was proved that co-firing of both biomass sorts leads to a decrease of CO and SO₂ emissions. Due to the possibility of considering the part of the energy generated during biomass co-firing as renewable energy, the procedure for biomass based renewable energy share determination is presented and illustrated with an example.     

A review on thermo-chemical characteristics of coal/biomass co-firing in industrial furnace

Biomass should be considered as one of the promising sources of energy for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Co-firing biomass with coal has become a solution for meeting the power crisis as well as to reduce the pollutant emissions. The biomass fuels typically found from woody to grassy and solid recovered fuels depending on its origin and properties. It is suggested that co-firing coal with biomass has a substantial effect on SO_x and NO_x emission level. The ashing process, fly ash quality depends on the conversion technology, capture technology and the properties of the biomass. In order to control the furnace efficiency and production, burnout, optimum injection of biomass sharing with specific information of particle ignition properties are also important. A number of small/laboratory scale and industrial scale experiments have been conducted by different researchers. Different experimental studies performed are reviewed, grouped and summarized based on the fuel processing technology, burnout performance, emission level, environmental aspect, ash information and deposit characteristics, effect of co-firing ratios and adoption of oxy-fuel co-firing. Overall, this paper will highlight existing technologies and emerging trends in co-firing of different types of biomass which will be helpful for future investigations.     

Influence of coal co-firing on the particulate matter formation during pulverized biomass combustion

Biomass is regarded as CO₂-neutral, while the high contents of potassium and chlorine in biomass induce severe particulate matter emission, ash deposition, and corrosion in combustion facilities. Co-firing biomass with coal in pulverized-combustion (PC) furnaces is able to solve these problems, as well as achieve a much higher generating efficiency than grate furnaces. In this work, the particulate matter (PM) emission from biomass co-firing with coal was studied in an entrained flow reactor at a temperature of 1623 K simulating PC furnace condition. PMs were sampled through a 13-stage impactor, and their morphology and elemental composition were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and electron dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. SO₂ emissions were measured to interpret the possibility of potassium sulfation during co-firing. Results show that PMs from the separated combustion of both biomass and coal present a bimodal particle size distribution (PSD). The concentration and size of fine-mode submicron particles (PM_1.0) from biomass combustion are much higher than those from coal combustion because of the high potassium content in biomass. For the co-firing cases, with the coal ratio increasing from 0% to 50%, the PM_1.0 yield is reduced by more than half and the PM_1.0 size becomes smaller, in contrast, the concentration of coarse-mode particles with the size of 1.0–10 μm (PM_1.0-10) increases. The measured PM_1.0 yields of co-firing are lower than the theoretically weight-averaged ones, which proves that during the biomass and coal co-firing in PC furnaces, the vaporized potassium from biomass can be efficiently captured by these silicon-aluminate oxides in coal ash. In the studied range of coal co-firing ratio (≤50 wt.%), the chlorides and sulfates of alkali metals from biomass burning are the dominating components in PM_1.0, and a certain amount of silicon is observed in PM_0.1-1. The analysis of chemical composition in PM_1.0, together with that of SO₂ emission, indicates a marginal sulfation of alkali metal chloride occurring at high temperatures in PC furnaces.     

Co-firing of coal and biomass fuel blends

This paper reviews literature on co-firing of coal with biomass fuels. Here, the term biomass includes organic matter produced as a result of photosynthesis as well as municipal, industrial and animal waste material. Brief summaries of the basic concepts involved in the combustion of coal and biomass fuels are presented. Different classes of co-firing methods are identified. Experimental results for a large variety of fuel blends and conditions are presented. Numerical studies are also discussed. Biomass and coal blend combustion is a promising combustion technology; however, significant development work is required before large-scale implementation can be realized. Issues related to successful implementation of coal biomass blend combustion are identified.     

Evaluation of feasibility of pelletized wood co-firing with high ash Indian coals

To reduce anthropogenic CO₂ emissions from power plants, biomass is an immediate alternative fuel which has similar properties as coal. In this regard, the present study discusses about pelletized wood (PW) co-firing with high ash Indian coal by conducting co-milling and co-firing trials in a 1000 kg/hr of pilot scale test facility. Indian coals are typically high ash content and low calorific value fuels, therefore, its interaction with coal during combustion and ash deposition have studied in detail. Based on co-milling trails of PW and coal, it was observed that as PW proportion in coal increases, the quantity of particles of size below 50 μm and as well above 500 μm were increased. From co-firing studies, it was observed that higher volatile content in PW helping in stabilizing flames while co-firing. At lower proportions, up to 10% weight PW co-firing with coal, the flame temperature and heat flux values are very close to base test of 100% coal firing. However, beyond 10% by weight of PW co-firing with coal, the flame temperature and heat flux values were increased significantly from 100% coal tests. This is because of higher calorific value of PW than coal. The CO emission was decreased with increase in PW proportion in coal but at 30% of PW in coal, CO emission was increased suddenly. However, NO and SO₂ concentrations were decreased up to 8% and 16% respectively with increase in PW proportion in coal due to lower fuel nitrogen and sulphur content in PW than coal. Analytical analysis of slagging indices suggest that the slagging potential for PW co-firing with coal is increasing as the PW proportion in coal increases.     

Numerical modeling of the gasification based biomass co-firing in a 600 MW pulverized coal boiler

Gasification based biomass co-firing was an attractive technology for biomass utilization. Compared to directly co-firing of biomass and coal, it might: (1) avoid feeding biomass into boiler, (2) reduce boiler fouling and corrosion problem, and (3) avoid altering ash characteristics. In this paper, CFD modeling of product gas (from biomass gasification) and coal co-firing in a 600 MW tangential PC boiler was carried out. The results showed that NO_x emission was reduced about 50–70% when the product gas was injected through the lowest layer burner. The fouling problem can be reduced with furnace temperature decreasing for co-firing case. The convection heat transfer area should be increased or the co-firing ratio of product gas should be decreased to keep boiler rated capacity.     

The effect of wood biomass blending with pulverized coal on combustion characteristics under oxy-fuel condition

In this study, combustion from the co-firing of coal and wood biomass, and thermal characteristics such as ignition temperature, burn-out temperature, and activation energy were discussed using a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). We investigated the effects of biomass blending with two kinds of pulverized coal (bituminous Shenhua, and sub-bituminous Adaro) under air and oxy-fuel conditions. The coal fraction in the blended samples was set to 1, 0.8, and 0.5. The oxygen fraction in the oxidant was set to 0.21, 0.3, 0.5, and 0.8. The ignition temperature was governed by the fuel composition, particularly in the blended biomass which has a much higher content of volatile matter comparing to coal. However, the burnout temperature, which shows a strong relationship with char combustion, depended on the oxidant ingredients rather than on the fuel components. Thermal characteristics such as ignition, burnout temperature, reaction region, and heat flow were very similar between air and a 0.3 oxygen concentration under oxy-fuel conditions with Shenhua coal.     

Co-firing switchgrass in a 60-megawatt pulverized coal-fired boiler: Effects on combustion behavior and pollutant emissions

Switchgrass was co-fired with coal in an industrial scale boiler to investigate the co-firing effects on boiler performance and pollutant emissions. Comparing with firing coal alone, co-firing with switchgrass slightly lowered boiler efficiency by 0.6 to 1% under full-load and low-load conditions, respectively. Net carbon dioxide and SO₂ emissions were reduced with co-firing. Nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions were similar with co-firing to firing coal alone under both high and low loading amounts of switchgrass. Varying the nitrogen content by changing switchgrass type and harvest time revealed no significant effect on NOx emission in the range of tested conditions.