Abstract
The object of this paper is to investigate the effect of operating parameters on Oxygen-enriched combustion (OEC) by exergy balance analysis during methane combustion process. In this work, the specific exergy value of fuel, feed gas and products were calculated on the basis of the second law of thermodynamics in different reaction conditions, so that availability destructions and exergy efficiencies of OEC process can be obtained based on exergy balance, and the influence of initial fuel temperature, oxygen concentration, exhaust gas recirculation ratio and equivalence ratio were addressed. It is observed that during methane OEC process, the exergy efficiency is mainly affected by products temperature, in the case of products temperature lower than 1870K, exergy efficiency of combustion increase with products temperature, and opposite changes was appeared when the products temperature higher than 1870K. Meanwhile, appropriate control of equivalence ratio can also be used to improve exergy efficiency by suppressing the dissociation of product.
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