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The characteristics of emission and heat transfer coefficient in a pressurized fluidized bed combustor are investigated. The pressure of the combustor is fixed at 6 atm. and the combustion temperatures are set to 850, 900, and 950 °C. The gas velocities are 0.9, 1.1, and 1.3 m/s and the excess air ratios are 5, 10, and 20%. The desulfurization experiment is performed with limestone and dolomite and Ca/S mole ratios are 1,2, and 4. The coal used in the experiment is Cumnock coal from Australia. All experiments are executed at 2 m bed height. In this study, the combustion efficiency is higher than 99.8% through the experiments. The heat transfer coefficient affected by gas velocity, bed temperature and coal feed rate is between 550-800 W/m2 °C, which is higher than those of AFBC and CFBC. CO concentration with increasing freeboard temperature decreases from 100 ppm to 20 ppm. NOx concentration in flue gas is in the range of 5-130 ppm and increases with increasing excess air ratio. N2O concentration in flue gas decreases from 90 to 10 ppm when the bed temperature increases from 850 to 950 °C.
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Han, KH., Park, J., Ryu, JI. et al. Coal combustion characteristics in a pressurized fluidized bed. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 16, 804–809 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698356
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