Modeling of the gas-phase combustion of a grate-firing biomass furnace using an extended approach of Eddy Dissipation Concept

The ability of the standard Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) approach to account for the chemical kinetic rates during the interaction between chemistry and turbulent flow field made it a suitable scheme for simulating gas-phase combustion. However, its application poses a challenge for modeling weakl...

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Published in:Fuel (Guildford) 2018-09, Vol.227, p.412-423
Main Authors: Farokhi, Mohammadreza, Birouk, Madjid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomass
Biomass burning
Biomass combustion
Combustion
Combustion chambers
Computational fluid dynamics
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Computer simulation
Dissipation
Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC)
Energy dissipation
Flames
Fluid dynamics
Fluidized bed combustion
Gas jets
Grate-firing
Mathematical models
Modelling
Organic chemistry
Pollutants
Reacting flow
Species
Temperature distribution
Temperature effects
Turbulence
Turbulent flames
Turbulent flow
Vortices
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Summary:The ability of the standard Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) approach to account for the chemical kinetic rates during the interaction between chemistry and turbulent flow field made it a suitable scheme for simulating gas-phase combustion. However, its application poses a challenge for modeling weakly turbulent reacting flow conditions, as well as reacting flows with comparable flow and chemical time scales. A modified version of EDC (referred to here as extended EDC) has recently been developed for predominantly non-premixed turbulent flames. This led to significant improvement in the predictions of species and temperature fields of biomass-derived gas jet flames over a wide range of turbulence conditions (from weakly to highly turbulent flow conditions). The present study examines the application of this extended EDC approach for the simulation of a small-scale updraft biomass combustor. The predictions of the model are compared with those of the standard EDC and their counterparts’ experimental temperature and species concentrations. In addition, the pathway of formation/destruction of gas-fuel species and pollutants (e.g., NOx) is investigated. The findings of the present study reveal a significant improvement in the predictions of temperature field and species of the gas-phase of grate-firing biomass combustion.
ISSN:0016-2361
1873-7153
DOI:10.1016/j.fuel.2018.04.102