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Cyclone-Bed Furnaces: Experimental Studies and Thermal Design

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Furnace processes occurring in laboratory setups, pilot commercial facilities, and small-capacity boilers of various sized equipped with cyclone-bed furnaces containing fixed and fluidized beds burning solid biofuels (wood pellets, straw pellets, sunflower husk pellets, peat pellets, wood waste, wood chips, milled peat, and crushed peat bricks) are investigated. The distribution features of temperature and gas concentrations (CO, CO2, H2, O2, CH4) in the combustion and secondary combustion chambers have been established in the course of experiments. With this information available, it becomes possible to determine the zones in which fuel actively reacts with the oxidant under the conditions of two-stage vortex combustion. Dependences of the carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxide (NOх) concentrations in the flue gases on the excess air ratio, bottom blast share (primary air), furnace power, and the combustion chamber’s outlet hole diameter are obtained. The furnace processes in cyclone-bed furnaces are numerically simulated using the standard k–ε turbulence model and the Magnussen combustion model, and satisfactory agreement between the calculation and experimental results is shown. A semiempirical method for designing cyclone-bed furnaces has been developed, according to which their main geometrical and operating parameters are determined in two stages: a preliminary thermal design analysis is first carried out, after which the furnace process is numerically simulated. Based on extensive generalization of experimental data on the burning of solid biofuels in cyclone-bed furnaces having different diameters, the parameter М = 0.52, which appears in the well-known Gurvich formula for the thermal design of furnace chambers, has been determined. This parameter takes into account the temperature field structure and the heat transfer pattern over the furnace height, thus making it possible to use the standard method in carrying out thermal design computations of furnaces.

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Pitsukha, E.A., Buchilko, E.K. & Teplitskii, Y.S. Cyclone-Bed Furnaces: Experimental Studies and Thermal Design. Therm. Eng. 67, 374–386 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601520060099

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