Oxyfuel combustion is a promising technology to facilitate carbon capture from combustion-generated flue gases. Circulating fluidized beds (CFBs), the major commercial-scale boilers, will play a significant role in the energy industry's transition from today's carbon-intensive to carbon neutral in the future. The types of boilers combust coals of wide screening particle sizes of 0~10 mm. The difference in coal particle size inevitably leads to a considerable variation in combustion characteristics, which has not yet been fully understood. In particular, little is known about the dynamic evolution behavior of combustion gas products and the intrinsic kinetics of the in-situ produced nascent char particles when these typically sized coal particles are combusted in fluidized beds. For this reason, an advanced micro fluidized bed reaction analyzer (MFBRA), integrated with a fast-responding process mass spectrometry, was employed to investigate the oxyfuel combustion behavior of two typically sized coal particles (i.e., 1.7~3.35 mm and 0.12~0.23 mm), typical of those in dense region and dilute region in CFBs, at 790~900℃. The use of MFBRA enabled the successful detection and characterization of the dynamic combustion process-sequentially occurring devolatilization and combustions of the in-situ produced volatiles and the nascent char particles. The results demonstrated that the combustions of volatiles and nascent char particles can have similar or different rates depending on the coal particle size. The two major successively occurring dynamic processes were distinctively identified and characterized for the coarse particles but not for the fine particles, which were featured with similar reaction rates for the two processes. The combustion of coarse char particles was rate-controlled by kinetics at low temperatures and changed to interparticle diffusion control at high temperatures. The combustion kinetics of the volatiles and nascent char were analyzed, and the corresponding values of activation energy were 107.2 and 143.9 kJ/mol, respectively.
BAI Hao-Long
,
FU Liang-Liang
,
XU Guang-Wen
,
BAI Ding-Rong
. Study on oxyfuel combustion behavior and the intrinsic kinetics of typically sized coal particles[J]. The Chinese Journal of Process Engineering, 2022
, 22(8)
: 1115
-1123
.
DOI: 10.12034/j.issn.1009-606X.221256