1. Combustion behavior of granulated and pulverized coal in a PCI rig : combustibility and pressure variation analysis
- Author
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Antonio Cezar Faria Vilela, Janaína Gonçalves Maria da Silva Machado, Juliana Gonçalves Pohlmann, Eduardo Osório, and Hector Alejandro Picarte Fragoso
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lcsh:TN1-997 ,Blast furnace ,Materials science ,Carvão pulverizado ,geology ,Coal combustion products ,02 engineering and technology ,Combustion ,Lab-scale combustion test facility ,01 natural sciences ,complex mixtures ,Biomaterials ,Combustão do carvão ,0103 physical sciences ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,Coal ,lcsh:Mining engineering. Metallurgy ,010302 applied physics ,Bituminous coal ,Pulverized coal-fired boiler ,business.industry ,Metallurgy ,geology.rock_type ,Blast furnace injection ,Metals and Alloys ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,respiratory system ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films ,respiratory tract diseases ,Coal combustion ,Combustibility ,Combustion pressure ,Ceramics and Composites ,Particle size ,Alto-forno ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
The effect of the coal volatile matter content and particle size has been investigated in a new lab-scale pulverized coal injection rig (PCI rig) in terms of combustion efficiency and pressure variation. Two coals typically used for blast furnace injection (a high and a low volatile bituminous coal) and their blends experienced combustion under pressurized conditions and extremely high heating rates and short residence times such as those experienced by coal particles in industrial process. Combustion tests were conducted for a low volatile coal prepared in the particle size ranges of 25–75 µm, 105–250 µm and 250–500 µm. Burnouts were lower for the larger particle size sample, but the intermediate particle size sample (105–250 µm) yielded similar conversion to that of the finer sample. The burnouts of the high and low volatile coal, as well as those of their blends were proportional to the volatile matter content of samples in the test conditions. The measurement of pressure variation in the reactor chamber indicated a displacement in the beginning of reactions to longer times as larger was the particle size of coal. The high volatile coal reached the maximum pressure variation earlier than the low volatile one and the combustion of this coal in the blends may have anticipated the reaction of the low volatile coal portion in the blends. Keywords: Blast furnace injection, Coal combustion, Lab-scale combustion test facility, Combustion pressure
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- 2019