A Readily Accessible Platform for Detailed Combustion Emissions Calculations

This paper explores the modeling and simulation of combustion processes in a gas turbine combustor both with and without water injection for NOx control. The combustor can be modeled as a series and/or parallel combinations of perfectly stirred reactors (PSRs) and plug flow reactors (PFRs). Kinetics...

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Published in:International journal of mechanical engineering education 2012-10, Vol.40 (4), p.289-304
Main Authors: Syed, Mohammed S., Punuru, Janardhana R., Dooley, Kerry M., Knopf, F. Carl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Combustion
Emissions
Gas turbines
Reactors
Water flooding
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Summary:This paper explores the modeling and simulation of combustion processes in a gas turbine combustor both with and without water injection for NOx control. The combustor can be modeled as a series and/or parallel combinations of perfectly stirred reactors (PSRs) and plug flow reactors (PFRs). Kinetics models require solution of non-linear and stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The CVODE code from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory can be used for the solution of these ODEs. Here we show that a reduced kinetics set coupled with an Excel callable version of CVODE (as a dynamic link library (dll)) can be used to predict emission trends in combustors. Student use is promoted by using Excel as the pre- and post-processor.
ISSN:0306-4190
2050-4586
DOI:10.7227/IJMEE.40.4.3