TY - JOUR TI - Two-dimensional mathematical model of liquid fuel combustion in bubbling fluidized bed applied for a fluidized furnace numerical simulation AU - Nemoda Stevan Đ AU - Paprika Milijana AU - Mladenović Milica R AU - Marinković Ana D AU - Živković Goran S JN - Thermal Science PY - 2018 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 1121 EP - 1135 PT - Article AB - Lately, experimental methods and numerical simulations are equally employed for the purpose of developing incineration BFB facilities. The paper presents the results of the two-dimensional CFD model of liquid fuel combustion in bubbling fluidized bed, applied for numerical simulation of a fluidized bed furnace. 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 proposed numerical model comprises energy equations for all three phases (gas, inert fluidized particles, and liquid fuel), as well as the transport equations of chemical components that are participating in the reactions of combustion and devolatilization. The model equations are solved applying a commercial CFD package, whereby the user sub-models were developed for heterogenic fluidized bed combustion of liquid fuels and for interphase drag forces for all three phases. The results of temperature field calculation were compared with the experiments, carried out in-house, on a BFB pilot-facility. The numerical experiments, based on the proposed mathematical model, have been used for the purposes of analyzing the impacts of various fuel flow rates, and fluidization numbers, on the combustion efficiency and on the temperature fields in the combustion zone. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. TR33042: Improvement of the industrial fluidized bed facility, in the scope of technology for energy efficient and environmentally feasible combustion of various waste materials in fluidized bed]