煤粉燃烧过程中灰膜形成比例实验研究

煤焦颗粒燃烧过程中,灰膜形成显著影响其燃烧特性。因此,本文借助高温沉降炉研究了61~75,75~90和90~125μm三种粒径黄陵烟煤在1273和1673 K温度下的燃烧特性与灰膜形成比例;借助扫描电镜(SEM)详细观测空心微珠颗粒内部结构,提出灰膜比例计算公式,并分析温度,粒径和碳转化率对灰膜比例的影响。结果表明,高温下大部分灰分在焦炭烧尽阶段以灰膜形式存在。灰膜比例随温度和碳转化率增加而增加,随煤粉粒径增大而减小。高温下灰分用于形成灰膜比例相对较高,这为煤焦燃尽阶段的低反应性提供了合理的解释。煤焦颗粒动态燃烧过程中灰膜形成比例随燃烧工况变化而变化。该研究为煤焦颗粒燃烧动力学模拟灰膜比例选择提供了关键数据支撑。     

Investigation of unburned carbon particles in fly ash by means of laser light scattering

A new optical method to determine the percentage of unburned carbon particles in fly ash from combustion of pulverized coal has been developed. The technique exploits the different properties of particles of ash and coal in the elastic scattering of polarized light.     

Ash formation and deposition during combustion of pulverized torrefied wood and coal in a 100 kW downflow combustor

Torrefied wood originating from beetle-killed trees is an abundant biomass fuel that can be co-fired with coal for power generation. In this work, pulverized torrefied wood, a bituminous coal (Sufco coal) and their blended fuel with a mixing ratio of 50/50 wt.%, are burned in a 100-kW rated laboratory combustor under similar conditions. Ash aerosols in the flue gas and ash deposits on a temperature-controlled surface are sampled during combustion of the three fuels. Results show that ash formation and deposition for wood combustion are notably different from those for coal combustion, revealing different mechanisms. Compared to the coal, the low-ash torrefied wood produces low concentrations of fly ash in the flue gas but significantly increased yields (per input ash) of ash that has been vaporized. All the mineral elements including the semi- or non-volatile metals in the wood are found to be more readily partitioned into the PM₁₀ ash than those in the coal. The inside layer deposits sticking to the surface and the loosely bound outside deposits exposed to the gas both show a linear growth in weight during torrefied wood test. Unlike coal combustion, in which the concentration of (vaporized) ash PM₁ controls the inside deposition rate, wood combustion shows that the formation of porous bulky deposits by the condensed residual ash dominates the inside deposition process. Co-firing removes these differences between the wood and coal, making the blended fuel to have more similar fly ash characteristics and ash deposition behavior to those of the bituminous coal. In addition, results also show some beneficial effects of co-firing coal with torrefied wood, including reduction of the total deposition rate and the minimization of corrosive alkali species produced by wood.     

垃圾焚烧过程中重金属分布特性的研究

本文对垃圾焚烧过程中,不同粒径的灰颗粒中Hg、Pb、Cd、Cu、Zn、Ni六种重金属元素含量进行了测定,同时比较了燃烧飞灰、煤与垃圾混烧的飞灰以及垃圾飞灰三种灰样中相应的重金属含量。结果表明:焚烧飞灰中重金属浓度含量随着颗粒尺寸的增大而减少;三种不同灰样的重金属含量大小依次为:垃圾飞灰>煤与垃圾混烧飞灰>燃煤飞灰。     

Influence of combustion temperature and coal types on alumina crystal phase formation of high-alumina coal ash

The alumina content (more than 40%) of high-alumina coal ash is comparative to the middle content bauxite ores in China. So far, in order to meet the high demand of alumina and the rise of circular economy industrial chain, extracting alumina from coal ash has become a way to comprehensively utilize high-alumina coal ash. However, this process has high requirements on the crystal phase and stability of alumina. Different from most studies, this paper focuses on how to produce coal ash more beneficial to the later refining of aluminum. Therefore, the effects of combustion temperature and coal types by classifying high-alumina coal into dull coal and bright coal on alumina crystal phase formation were studied. Through proximate analysis, ultimate analysis, calorific value analysis, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) and other methods, it is found that γ-Al₂O₃ in high-alumina coal ash translated into more stable θ-Al₂O₃ and finally α-Al₂O₃ when combustion temperature is higher than 1000°C. Thus compared with pulverized coal boilers, circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers with lower combustion temperature can produce higher quality coal ash. Moreover, at the same combustion temperature, alumina crystal phase in dull coal ash is relatively less stable than that in bright coal ash, which is more suitable to the later refining and electrolysis of aluminum.     

Mechanism on the contribution of coal/char fragmentation to fly ash formation during pulverized coal combustion

In this paper, the correlations between coal/char fragmentation and fly ash formation during pulverized coal combustion are investigated. We observed an explosion-like fragmentation of Zhundong coal in the early devolatilization stage by means of high-speed photography in the Hencken flat-flame burner. While high ash-fusion (HAF) bituminous and coal-derived char samples only undergo gentle perimeter fragmentation in the char burning stage. Simultaneously, combustion experiments of two kinds of coals were conducted in a 25?kW down-fired combustor. The particle size distributions (PSDs) of both fine particulates (PM_1-10) and bulk fly ash (PM₁₀₊) were measured by Electrical Low Pressure Impactor (ELPI) and Malvern Mastersizer 2000, respectively. The results show that the mass PSD of residual fly ash (PM₁₊) from Zhundong coal exhibits a bi-modal shape with two peaks located at 14?µm and 102?µm, whereas that from HAF coal only possesses a single peak at 74?µm. A hybrid model accounting for multiple-route ash formation processes is developed to predict the PSD of fly ash during coal combustion. By incorporating coal/char fragmentation sub-models, the simulation can quantitatively reproduce the measured PM₁₊ PSDs for different kinds of coals. The sensitivity analysis further reveals that the bi-modal mass distribution of PM₁₊ intrinsically results from the coal fragmentation during devolatilization.     

The fluorescence interference in Raman spectrum of raw coals and its application for evaluating coal property and combustion characteristics

Fluorescence interference in Raman spectrum is a big barrier for rapid and precise analysis of coal structures by Raman spectroscopy. Dealing with fluorescence interference suitably is one of the key tasks before efficient application of Raman spectroscopy in coal assessment. In this study, Raman spectra and coal combustion characteristics of 32 kinds of Chinese coals were respectively obtained in a micro-Raman spectrometer and Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer. The degree of fluorescence interference in Raman spectrum was firstly defined and quantified as the drift coefficient α using a simple method without curve-fitting the spectrum. The correlations between the degree of fluorescence interference and coal property, coal combustion characteristics were set up and multivariable analysis was done. The results indicate that the degree of fluorescence interference is well related to the coal structures, and it is synthetically determined by volatile, moisture and ash content in coal. With the increase of volatile, moisture content in coal, the fluorescence interference increases continuously, and it can be reduced but not eliminated by drying the moisture in coals. Significant mathematical relations between the drift coefficient α and volatile, moisture content, coal combustion characteristic temperatures have been found. Coal with more evident fluorescence interference in Raman spectrum usually has lower degree of coalification, more polar functional groups, and burns at a lower temperature. The drift coefficient α can act as an efficient probe for coal property and coal combustion characteristics. This study provided a new and simple approach for evaluating coal property and coal combustion characteristics by fluorescence interference in Raman spectrum.     

Online deposition measurement and slag bubble behavior in the reduction zone of pulverized coal staged combustion

An online thermogravimetric measurement method of ash deposition was developed. Ash deposition and slag bubble in the reductive zone of pulverized coal staged combustion were investigated. Firstly, a steady pulverized coal staged combustion was achieved in an electrically heated down-fired furnace. Additionally, gas species, coal conversion, and particle size distribution were quantitatively measured. Secondly, real-time ash deposition rates at different temperatures (1100–1400 °C) were measured, and deposition samples were carefully collected with an N₂ protection method. The morphologies of collected samples were investigated through a scanning electron microscope. It was found that the deposited ash transformed from a porous layer composed of loosely bound particles to a solid layer formed by molten slag. Different behaviors of the slag bubble were observed, and bubble sizes were significantly affected by the deposition temperature. A deposition and bubble formation mechanism was proposed and used for modeling. Results showed that the proposed model well predicted the observed ash deposition and bubble formation process.     

煤粉燃烧颗粒粒子云辐射特性的研究

分析了在560nm的测量波长处煤粉炉中炭粒和飞灰粒子云的辐射特性。利用Mie理论,分别计算了燃烧器出口和炉膛的上部颗粒粒子云的辐射特性,发现在燃烧器出口区,炭粒对颗粒总体辐射减弱系数的影响较大,占90%以上;而在炉膛的上部,飞灰的影响较大。从数值计算结果中可以看出,飞灰粒子云的散射率高达91.6%,其对辐射的散射作用比吸收更强,而炭粒子的散射率仅为50%。     

煤基化学链燃烧过程中硫的演变

在双阶段流化床反应器内,基于溶胶凝胶法制备的Fe2O3/Al2O3氧载体研究了褐煤化学链燃烧过程中燃料硫的迁移路径及分布特性,并讨论了温度、过氧系数对燃料硫释放分布的影响.结果表明:所有工况下,氧载体均未出现被硫化的现象;在热解气化学链燃烧阶段,气相含硫物质以SO2和H2S为主,煤焦气化气化学链燃烧阶段绝大部分为SO2气体,部分来源于煤焦中CaSO4的分解。另外,部分燃料硫被碱金属固定于煤灰中。同时,提高温度和过氧系数都能导致SO2/H2S值和SO2释放量增大。     

煤焦燃烧过程中的亚观和微观形态及反应机理

通过FESEM和EBSP对煤粉在TGA、DTF和电站锅炉内燃烧过程中的亚观和微观形态及碳的含量变化的研究表明:炭的形态可分为5类:薄壁网架炭、厚壁网架炭、浅孔实体炭、实体炭和含碳矿物;同一煤样同一温度条件下炉内炭比TGA和DTF中的炭具有更大的反应比表面积;炉内炭的表面含碳量变化不大,不存在低温反应器的表面灰壳,因此,应用球形灰壳理论预报炉内煤粉的燃烧速率是值得怀疑的;亚观形态与微观形态间不存在几何分形上的自相似性.     

煤燃烧过程矿物质行为研究

１前言煤中矿物质行为直接影响到煤灰熔融特性,影响到燃烧锅炉的结渣程度。以前曾对单种煤煤灰加热过程中矿物质行为特征［１,２］,以及混煤煤灰熔融行为与矿物形态间的关系［３,４］进行过研究。但这些研究均是以煤灰做为试样,静态加热处理并分析的基础性研究,而未考虑到燃烧锅炉内煤灰颗粒的加热燃烧速度、空间分布情况以及炉内温度分布。本研究将在四角燃烧炉内,煤燃烧过程中不同位置取出友样进行矿物质形态分析,并与煤灰静态加热过程矿物质组成及含量变化进行比较分析。２实验方法试样采用株州煤。制成８００”Ｃ灰样,株州煤的…     

褐煤热解与燃烧时矿物转化和细灰形成的CCSEM研究

在沉降炉中进行了一种典型中国褐煤的热解与燃烧实验,热解气氛为N2,燃烧气氛为O₂/N₂=21:79,采用CCSEM分析原煤、煤焦与煤灰。CCSEM分析结果表明,铁氧化物、石英、黄铁矿、伊利石和高岭土是煤中主要的矿物成分,同时也是主要的外在矿成分,褐煤中57.26%的矿物粒径小于10μm。在热解与燃烧过程中,煤中主要矿物发生了明显转化。富Si矿物和硅铝酸盐在热解和燃烧过程中可能发生了破碎;而富Fe矿物部分明显破碎生成细小矿物,部分外在矿直接转化,未发生明显破碎。细灰少量来自于细小富硅矿、石英和铁氧化物等矿物的直接转化,70%以上的细灰由Ca、Fe含量很高的混合硅铝酸盐组成。     

激光诱导击穿光谱技术快速探测煤灰中的重金属锌

煤灰的成分指的是煤中矿物质的完全燃烧,产生各种金属和非金属氧化物和盐,这是使用煤时的重要参数。煤被广泛用于生产和人民生活,作为重要的能源物质。大量来自燃煤燃烧的煤尘（煤灰）被释放到大气中并与大气中的各种物质相互作用而形成雾霾。煤灰中的金属氧化物和空气中的小液滴之间发生一系列物理化学反应,这导致了雾霾的形成。在实验中,采用激光诱导击穿光谱（LIBS）分析煤灰中的元素。实验样品由某钢铁公司提供,分为七个样品,并标上序号。样品分别加入蒸馏水和0.1‰,0.2‰,0.2％,0.4％,0.8％,1％硫酸锌溶液,分别用1～7号标记。为了获得更好的LIBS信号,样品被研磨为粉末状,并使用蒸馏水使硫酸锌与煤灰充分混合。通过使用压片机将煤灰压制成10 mm直径和10 mm厚的煤灰块。为获得准确的元素结果,X射线荧光光谱也被用作参考,并且原始样品不含锌元素。由于光谱分析和波长漂移现象的不确定性,因此实验中,分别选择了铁,钙,钛和铝四种高纯单质。在相同的实验条件下,将四条测量的元素谱线与NIST原子光谱数据库中相应的谱图比较。实验中的所有光谱根据波长差或偏移进行校正。此时,纯单质的元素谱线可以与样品的光谱对齐。当元素谱中的特征线与样品中的谱线对齐时,样品就可以被识别和确认。由于铝元素与目标元素具有相似的化学和物理性质,铝元素是煤灰和地壳中的主要元素之一,具有中等的光谱强度。因此将铝元素作为内标元素,运用内标校准方法来确定样品中锌的浓度。模拟含锌大气气溶胶是通过向煤灰中添加含锌元素来实现的。还有一些其他的金属元素,包括铁,钙,锰,钛和铝也被用来加入煤灰中,用以模拟大气气溶胶。两种方法的相对差异分别为1.78％,3.39％,5.17％,0.20％。造成差异的原因可能是由于光谱仪缺乏分辨率或背景噪声的影响,这是可能导致测量误差的原因之一。由于实验室条件的限制,无法确定基底是否会影响实验结果,这将在未来的实验中得到进一步的证实。实验拟合曲线测得煤灰中锌的线性相关系数为0.995 72,这表明可以通过粗略估算锌的激光强度来估计煤灰中的锌含量的实现。实验结果证明LIBS技术可用于煤灰中金属元素的快速检测,为基于锌含量的大气环境检测提供了一种新方法。在建立元素的校准曲线后,LIBS技术将来可以用来进行更快速,更准确的定量分析。     

An in-situ method for time-resolved sodium release behaviour during coal combustion and its application in industrial coal-fired boilers

To mitigate the slagging, fouling and high-temperature corrosion problems caused by alkali metals during coal combustion process, measurement of time-resolved alkali metals release is very important. The paper proposed an in-situ approach for measuring sodium (Na) release in coal combustion by Flame Emission Spectroscopy (FES). Through the analysis of spontaneous emission spectra and a calibration procedure, the concentration of gas phase Na, temperature and thermal radiation can be obtained. Firstly, experimental measurement of Zhundong coal particles burning in a flat flame burner was done. Two kinds of Zhundong coal with similar proximate and ultimate analyses, but different ash composition were used. The Na-release history measured by FES was compared with that by LIBS. Results showed that the Na-release at the devolatilization, char, and ash stages can be distinguished by FES. The higher Si/Al content in ash can suppress the Na-release at the ash stage. Moreover, FES method was extended to the measurement of Na-release in four industrial boiler furnaces of two Zhundong coal-fired power plants. Results showed the Na-release measured by FES can reflect the change of fuel and load, and both temperature and thermal radiation play key roles in Na-release in coal combustion.     

Characteristics of the sub-micron ash aerosol generated during oxy-coal combustion at atmospheric and elevated pressures

This paper is concerned with the effect of pressure on the particle size distribution and the size-segregated composition of the sub-micron ash aerosol created during oxy-coal combustion under near practical self-sustaining combustion conditions. The problem is important because pressurized oxy-coal combustion has been proposed as one promising technology to minimize CO₂ emissions. Sub-micron ash plays a major role in ash deposition mechanisms, which, in turn, can control boiler performance. In this work, the same bituminous coal was burned at pressures of 1, 8 and 15 bar in O₂/CO₂ environments. Tests employed a 100 kW (rated) oxy-fuel combustor (OFC) operated at atmospheric pressure (1 bar) and a 300 kW (rated) entrained-flow pressurized reactor (EFPR) at elevated pressures (8 and 15 bar). Although these tests were conducted under near practical combustion conditions, confounding effects of peak flame temperature variations were minimized for the 1 bar and 15 bar tests, allowing the role of elevated pressure to be isolated. For the EFPR tests, a specially designed sampling system was used to sample sub-micron ash aerosols from the pressurized combustor and is described in detail. Results showed that at the same peak temperature but higher pressure, the fractions of ash aerosol partitioned into the PM_0.6 and PM₁ size fractions were greatly diminished. Moreover, elevated pressures caused significant changes in the composition of the (size-segregated) sub-micron aerosol, especially in its alkali content, which increased significantly. Examination of fractions of each element that ended up in the sub-micron fume suggested that, at constant temperature, the effect of pressure on vaporization of semi-volatile metals was very different from that on the release into the gas phase of non-volatile metals and could not be explained by equilibrium.     

The roles of added chlorine and sulfur on ash deposition mechanisms during solid fuel combustion

The focus of this paper is on effects of chlorine and sulfur on coal ash deposition rates, under practically relevant but systematically controlled combustion conditions. This problem is important, not so much for coal, but to understand and predict deposition rates for biomass combustion where chlorine contents can be high. To this end, ash deposition rates on a controlled temperature surface were measured for controlled amounts of chlorine and sulfur added to a pulverized coal, doped with potassium and burned in a 100 kW rated combustion rig. Previous work with 35 tests on 11 coal, biomass and petroleum coke fuels burned under a range of operating conditions had strongly suggested that the deposition rate of the tightly bound inside deposits was independent of the ash aerosol composition, and depended only on PM₁ in the flue gas. The loosely bound outside deposition rate was dependent primarily on the total alkali content in the flue gas. The new results using chlorine added to the fuel (in the form of ammonium chloride) required these previous conclusions to be drastically revised. They showed that chlorine, not alkali alone, had large effects on the deposition rate of the inside deposits, which now were orders of magnitude higher than without chlorine addition, and did not fit previous (multi-fuel) correlations with PM₁. Sulfur addition, together with chlorine, did not affect deposition rates much, although it did lower the chlorine content of the deposit. These results are interpreted in terms of the ash aerosol size segregated composition, which was also measured, and potential sulfation reactions within the deposit.     

Use of elemental size distributions in identifying particle formation modes

The chemical composition of particles generated during pulverized coal combustion is the consequence of their formation processes. This work aims to use the size resolved elemental composition of coal-derived particles to identify their formation modes. A size-classified bituminous coal is burnt in a laboratory drop tube furnace at 1150, 1250, and 1350 °C, respectively. The elemental composition of the size-segregated particles from coal combustion is analyzed and the total mass fraction size distributions of Si and Al are obtained. Three particle formation modes are observed in these distribution profiles. The coarse mode has the highest value of the total mass fraction of Si and Al while the ultrafine mode has the lowest one. The total mass fraction of Si and Al in these two modes is nearly independent of particle size. It is believed that the coarse mode is formed by the mineral coalescence mechanism and the ultrafine mode by the vaporization–condensation mechanism. The difference in the total mass fraction of Si and Al between the central mode and the other two indicates that the central mode is formed by different mechanisms. Based on the observation that the total mass fraction of Si and Al in this mode increases with increasing particle size, heterogeneous condensation of vaporized species on existing fine residual ash particles is proposed to account for the formation of these particles. The study of the elemental composition of the three modes represented in five categories verifies the proposed formation mechanisms for them to some extent.     

煤粉低尘燃烧器热态试验研究

以液排渣旋风燃烧技术为基础的煤粉低尘燃烧器可在燃烧过程实现捕渣,为工业加热提供含尘浓度低的高温火焰,是工业加热过程实现以煤代油的先进燃烧技术。本论文介绍了新型煤粉低尘燃烧器的热态燃烧试验研究结果,该燃烧器采用端面旋流进风,煤粉和一次风在旋转气流外层送入,分级燃烧等技术。热态试验研究表明,采用上述技术的煤粉低尘燃烧器具有燃烧完全,捕渣率高,NOx排放浓度低等特点。     

Scale-up of sonic energy for a major industrial application: ash conditioning for power utilities that use fluidized bed combustion

The paper describes a new, powerful, patented piece of sonic equipment that operates in the low sonic frequency range, at 104 Hz, with nominal power of 75 kW. It has been tested for both physical and chemical sonic effects. A large-scale industrial application is described — the conditioning and pacification of ash from utility coal combustion by fluidized bed combustion. A variety of additional applications is suggested, most of which have been briefly tested.