Abstract
At present, the development of advanced carbon emission reduction technologies and the realization of the dual-carbon goals have become the most urgent problems in the energy field. Carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants in China still account for a major proportion. Ammonia, as a zero-carbon fuel, has significant advantages in heating value, synthesis, transportation and other aspects. Co-firing ammonia in coal-fired boilers is one of the important ways to achieve large-scale utilization, however, the control of nitrogen oxide emissions during large-scale co-firing will be a major challenge in the future. In this paper, the co-firing experiment of ammonia with coal was carried out in a lab-scale furnace, and the effects of temperature (1 000-1 300 ℃), air/ fuel ratio(0.65-1.50), and cofiring ratio(0-30%) on nitrogen oxide emissions were discussed. The results show that the lower combustion temperature and air/ fuel ratio is essential to inhibit the conversion of ammonia to nitrogen oxides. Under the operating conditions of 1.5 air/ fuel ratio and 20% co-firing ratio, the NOx emissions reach to 780×10-6 and 1 870×10-6 at 1 200 and 1 300 ℃ respectively. With the increase of ammonia ratio, the NOx emissionsincrease linearly, but the overall conversion of fuel nitrogen to NO decreases significantly. The calculations by detailed chemical reaction mechanisms (e.g. Glarborg 2018, Mendiara 2009, Konnov) show that the prediction results derived by Konnov mechanism are closer to the experimental results. The Konnov mechanism is further used to evaluate the influence of air/ fuel ratio, temperature and other variables on the NO emissions by ammonia combustion. The results show that the temperature and nitrogen oxide emission concentrations increase with exponential rate, while the total NOx emissions change abruptly when the air/ fuel ratio increases from 1.0 to 1.1. A mixing factor is defined to study the effect of the mixing level of oxidant and ammonia on nitrogen oxide emissions, and it is found that prolonging the mixing distance of ammonia and oxidant can significantly reduce the intensity of nitrogen oxide emissions.
| Translated title of the contribution | Experiment of ammonia-coal co-firing in a drop tube furnace and the kinetic modeling of ammonia oxidation |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 127-133 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Clean Coal Technology |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - Oct 2023 |