Computational study of the processes of pulverized coal oxygen combustion in a vortex burner

Abstract

Numerical studies of aerodynamics and heat transfer in a vortex burner during flame oxygen combustion of pulverized coal are presented. The proposed numerical method has been tested using experimental data on oxygen combustion of coal in a flow. The influence of oxygen concentration in the blast on the processes of ignition and combustion of coal dust in a nitrogen-free environment has been considered. It has been established that for the burner under study, an increase in oxygen concentration from 40.1 to 66.7 vol. % leads to a change in the flow structure, an extension of the flame size, and an increase in the average value of unburned solid carbon concentration from 0.00136 to 0.4 g/m³ at a distance of 1.5 m from the burner.