Analysis of Two-Stage Fuel Combustion in Multi-Fuel Boilers

Abstract

The significant growth of industry in the second half of the 20th century led to a number of problems, one of the most important problems is the protection of the environment from pollution. The main source of air pollution is heat and power generating plants, which are based on combustion processes. The largest pollutant is thermal power plants, which burn a large volume of fossil fuel and form a corresponding amount of toxic substances, in particular nitrogen and sulfur oxides. In this paper, combustion processes with various burner devices will be considered and two fuels – natural gas, fuel oil. One of the most important tasks operation of power equipment is the development and widespread use of effective methods to reduce the formation of harmful substances and determining the optimal modes of fuel combustion, ensuring a minimum level of emissions of toxic combustion products. Two-stage fuel combustion is an effective method of reducing nitrogen oxide emissions. In two-stage combustion, one fuel burnout zone is replaced by several zones, as isolated as possible. The paper will compare several options for the implementation of two-stage combustion in the boiler. The influence of boiler load on the concentration of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gases is analyzed. Also at two-stage combustion of fuel oil in gas-oil boilers reliability of screen surfaces of heating as a result of decrease in the maximum falling heat streams on a screen surface of heating of a copper increased.