THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Stevan Đ Nemoda

,

Milica R. Mladenović

,

Milijana Paprika

,

Aleksandar M. Erić

,

Borislav Grubor

THREE PHASE EULERIAN-GRANULAR MODEL APPLIED ON NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF NON-CONVENTIONAL LIQUID FUELS COMBUSTION IN A BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED

ABSTRACT
The paper presents a two-dimensional CFD model of liquid fuel combustion in bubbling fluidized bed. The numerical procedure is based on the two-fluid Euler-Euler approach, where the velocity field of the gas and particles are modeled in analogy to the kinetic gas theory. The model is taking into account also the third - liquid phase, as well as its interaction with the solid and gas phase. The proposed numerical model comprise energy equations for all three phases, as well as the transport equations of chemical components with source terms originated from the component conversion. In the frame of the proposed model, user sub-models were developed for heterogenic fluidized bed combustion of liquid fuels, with or without water. The results of the calculation were compared with experiments on a pilot-facility (power up to 100 kW), combusting, among other fuels, oil. The temperature profiles along the combustion chamber were compared for the two basic cases: combustion with or without water. On the basis of numerical experiments, influence of the fluid-dynamic characteristics of the fluidized bed on the combustion efficiency was analyzed, as well as the influence of the fuel characteristics (reactivity, water content) on the intensive combustion zone. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. TR33042: Improvement of the industrial fluidized bed facility, in scope of technology for energy efficient and environmentally feasible combustion of various waste materials in fluidized bed]
KEYWORDS
CFD model, combustion, fluidized bed, granular flow, three-phase model, liquid fuel
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2015-10-25
PAPER REVISED: 2015-11-04
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2015-11-05
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2015-12-13
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI151025196N
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2016, VOLUME 20, ISSUE Supplement 1, PAGES [S133 - S149]
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