© Influence Of Combustion Parameters On NOx Production In An Industrial Boiler Habib, MA; Elshafei, M; Dajani, M PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, COMPUTERS FLUIDS; pp: 12-23; Vol: 37 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Summary NOx formation during the combustion process occurs mainly through the oxidation of nitrogen in the combustion air (thermal NOx) and through oxidation of nitrogen with the fuel (prompt NOx). The present study aims to investigate numerically the problem of NOx pollution using a model furnace of an industrial boiler utilizing fuel gas. The importance of this problem is mainly due to its relation to the pollutants produced by large boiler furnaces used widely in thermal industrial plants. Governing conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, and equations representing the transport of species concentrations, turbulence, combustion and radiation modeling in addition to NO modeling equations were solved together to present temperature and NO distribution inside the radiation and convection sections of the boiler. The boiler under investigation is a 160 MW, water-tube boiler, gas fired with natural gas and having two vertically aligned burners. The simulation study provided the NO distribution in the combustion chamber and in the exhaust gas at various operating conditions of fuel to air ratio with varying either the fuel or air mass flow rate, inlet air temperature and combustion primary air swirl angle. In particular, the simulation provided more insight on the correlation between the maximum furnace temperature and furnace average temperatures and the thermal NO concentration. The results have shown that the furnace average temperature and NO concentration decrease as the excess air factor lambda increases for a given air mass flow rate. When considering a fixed value of mass flow rate of fuel, the results show that increasing lambda results in a maximum value of thermal NO concentration at the exit of the boiler at lambda = Copyright: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals;

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