THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CALCULATIONS OF WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS
ABSTRACT
The combustion process for using municipal solid waste as a fuel within a waste to energy plant calls for a detailed understanding of the following phenomena. Firstly, this process depends on many input parameters such as proximate and ultimate analysis, the season of the year, primary and secondary inlet air velocities and, secondly, on output parameters such as the temperatures or mass fraction of the combustible products. The variability and mutual dependence of these parameters can be difficult to manage in practice. Another problem is how these parameters can be tuned to achieving optimal combustible conditions with minimal pollutant emissions, during the plant-design phase. In order to meet these goals, a waste-to-energy plant with bed combustion was investigated by using computational fluid-dynamics approach. The adequate variable input boundary conditions based on the real measurement are used and the whole computational work is updated using real plant geometry and the appropriate turbulence, combustion, or heat transfer models. The operating parameters were optimized on output parameters through a trade-off study. The different operating conditions were varied and the combustible products were predicted and visualized. Finally, the response charts and matrix among the input and output parameters during the optimization process are presented, which monitored the dependence among these parameters.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2010-10-04
PAPER REVISED: 2010-11-03
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2010-11-21
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2011, VOLUME
15, ISSUE
Issue 1, PAGES [1 - 16]
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