摘要

In a tangentially coal-fired boiler, for locations inside and near the combustor, heat-transfer by radiation is significant, and hence, ash particles arrive in molten state. The aim of the present study is to adopt a mechanistic modeling approach which incorporates energy-conservation principles to address slag-layer growth. In order to determine the outcome of molten ash impaction, a mechanistic bouncing potential model, incorporating the phenomenon of recoiling of molten ash droplets after impaction, is employed. The bouncing potential is a representation of the excess energy possessed by the recoiling splat, and is used to determine the outcome of molten ash impaction to stick or to bounce. Computational fluid dynamics techniques, incorporating the effect of thermophoresis, are adopted to estimate the arrival rate of ash particles, and the bouncing potential model, as a user-defined function, is incorporated in the simulation package to determine the status of the droplets after impaction. Two coals of Indian origin are simulated for slag-layer growth for a period of 100 min. The simulation results, when compared with field data provided by BHEL-Trichy, indicate that the model qualitatively predicts the growth of slag-layers. It has been further inferred that smaller particles dominate deposit formation and its growth.

  • 出版日期2015-3-1