Effect of Mixing on Natural Gas Reburning

Abstract

AbstractThe purpose of this work is to understand the influence of the mixing process on reburning performance. Modeling is done in a one‐dimensional approximation by utilizing a detailed chemical mechanism, staged addition of reactants, and mixture stratification. Natural gas is used as both the main fuel and the reburning fuel. The most important parameters that affect the efficiency of the reburning process are: the amount of the reburning fuel, the initial NO level, the initial temperatures of the injected reburning fuel and overfire air (OFA), temperature of flue gas at the points where reburning fuel and OFA are injected, and intensity of mixing of the reburning fuel and OFA with the stream of flue gases. It is shown that fuel stratification in the mixing zone improves reburning efficiency for small heat inputs of the reburning fuel and degrades reburning efficiency for large heat inputs. Initial temperatures of the reburning fuel and OFA affect NO reduction and can be optimized for deeper NO control. Reactions of N‐containing species in the burnout zone play an important role in NO reduction for large heat inputs of the reburning fuel.