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Numerical study of effects of hydrogen addition on methane combustion behaviors

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The methane combustion with hydrogen addition can effectively reduce carbon emissions in the iron and steel making industry, while the combustion mechanism is still poorly understood. The oxy-fuel combustion of methane with hydrogen addition in a 0.8 MW oxy-natural gas combustion experimental furnace was numerically studied to investigate six different combustion mechanisms. The results show that the 28-step chemical reaction mechanism is the optimal recommendation for the simulation balancing the numerical accuracy and computational expense. As the hydrogen enrichment increases in fuel, the highest flame temperature increases. Consequently, the chemical reaction accelerates with enlarging the peak of the highest flame temperature and intermediate OH radicals. When the hydrogen enrichment reaches 75 vol.%, the flame front is the farthest, and the flame high-temperature zone occupies the largest proportion corresponding to the most vigorous chemical reactions in the same oxygen supply.

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This research was funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M690975), the Opening Research Projects of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy/Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering (K22-04, SKLMF-KF-1901) and the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (20212BAB214023 and 20212BDH81001) for financial support of this work.

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  1. Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China

    Dian-yu E, Ling-yi Weng & Jia-xin Cui

  2. International Institute for Innovation, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China

    Dian-yu E & Ling-yi Weng

  3. Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited, Shenzhen, 518102, Guangdong, China

    Guang-wu Tang

  4. ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Jing Li

  5. School of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255000, Shandong, China

    Guang-chao Wei

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E, Dy., Weng, Ly., Tang, Gw. et al. Numerical study of effects of hydrogen addition on methane combustion behaviors. J. Iron Steel Res. Int. 30, 2173–2185 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42243-023-00965-x

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