Turbulent Mixing Effects in NOx Control via Reburning
Abstract
An integral model of a turbulent, reacting jet, based on the Two-Stage Lagrangian (TSL) model of Broadwell and Lutz, is used to gain insight into how mixing influences performance in a reburning application. Reburning is a promising NO_ x control technology for industrial furnaces that has been demonstrated at full-scale in a number of embodiments. Past work on reburning have applied plug-flow reactor (PFR) modeling, which assumes the fuel and oxidizer to be perfectly premixed initially and a perfectly mixed volume of the reacting species thereafter, in order to concentrate on the understanding of the underlying (reburning) kinetics. However, PFR predictions of reburning efficiency yield results which are far below the experimental data. Present results account for finite-rate mixing and yield, thereby, improved predictions over those from PFR calculations. The cause of the improved reburning performance in a delayed mixing environment is discussed and a number of parametric studies are reported.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- November 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997APS..DFD..Fi02C