A CFD study on the reacting flow of partially combusting hot coke oven gas in a bench-scale reformer

作者：Li Chengyi; Appari Srinivas; Tanaka Ryota; Hanao Kyoko; Lee Yeonkyung; Kudo Shinji; Hayashi Jun ichiro; Janardhanan Vinod M; Watanabe Hiroaki; Norinaga Koyo^*

来源：Fuel, 2015, 159: 590-598.

DOI：10.1016/j.fuel.2015.07.023

• Partial oxidation
• Detailed chemical kinetic model
• Turbulence-chemistry interaction
• Syngas

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach to simulate reacting flow in a hot coke oven gas (HCOG) reformer is presented. The HCOG was reformed by non-catalytic partial oxidation in a tubular reactor (0.6 m i.d. and similar to 4.1 m long) with four oxygen nozzles (0.0427 m i.d.), which was installed on a platform of an operating coke oven. The reforming of HCOG, a multi-component mixture, in a turbulent flow was simulated numerically by considering both chemical reactions and fluid dynamics. The detailed chemical kinetic model, originally consisting of more than 2000 elementary reactions with 257 species, was reduced to 410 reactions with 47 species for realising a kinetic model of finite rate reactions with a k-epsilon turbulence model. The calculation was carried out using the eddy dissipation concept (EDC) coupled with the kinetic model, and accelerated using the in situ adaptive tabulation (ISAT) algorithm. Numerical simulations could reproduce the reformed gas compositions fairly well, such as H-2, CO, CO2, and CH4, as well as the temperature profile in a HCOG reformer as measured by thermocouples.

• 出版日期2015-11-1