Coal fired processes are one of the major primary energy consumers with respect to electricity production worldwide. Thus, increasing the efficiency of power plant technology can contribute significantly to reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Optimising the array of the burners and their mutual interaction is a promising approach in this respect. Burner interaction has only been investigated experimentally up until the 1970s. Thereby, process operation was restricted to natural gas firing, which accounts for the limited availability of validated data regarding burner interaction. The present study provides an overview of state-of-the-art boiler and burner designs, followed by the research status on burner interaction and a summary of past research projects. Subsequently, results from two coal and natural gas fired experimental facilities with two burners each are presented. A special focus was put on heat transfer, chemical composition of product gases, and flame temperatures in oxyfuel processes.
Results show that total heat fluxes are increased significantly in burner arrays compared to the single burner due to burner interaction phenomena. Operation cases featuring high mass
ow (air case and high recirculation oxy cases) are especially in
uenced by interaction. Thus, if thermal power input is increased, convective heat fluxes are pronounced. Decreasing the distance between the burners tends to lead to better combustion behaviour
in the individual flame and higher flame temperatures. A general increase of NOx-emissions due to burner grouping has not been observed.
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Coal fired processes are one of the major primary energy consumers with respect to electricity production worldwide. Thus, increasing the efficiency of power plant technology can contribute significantly to reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Optimising the array of the burners and their mutual interaction is a promising approach in this respect. Burner interaction has only been investigated experimentally up until the 1970s. Thereby, process operation was restricted to natural gas firi...
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