Numerical study of chemical kinetics and radiation heat transfer characteristics on the temperature distribution in the oxy-fuel combustion

Abstract

In this study, The IFRF methane-oxygen combustion furnace is used to investigate the effect of the radiation model, the method of evaluated absorption and emission coefficients and the different chemical mechanisms. The simulations are performed with OpenFOAM open source software by using of PaSR (partially stirred reactor) combustion model. The numerical investigations are carried out without radiative heat transfer and with the modeling of the radiation source term using the P1 (spherical harmonic radiation model) and DO (discrete ordinate) models. To evaluate the absorption and emission coefficients used from the constant coefficients, the grey mean gases model in terms of temperature polynomial, the WSGGM (weighted sum of grey gases model) and refined WSGGM models. The investigation of the global mechanism effect on the temperature distribution in the oxy-fuel combustion is performed by the modified 2-step Westbrook-Dryer mechanism by Yin and modified 4-step Jones-Lindstedt mechanisms by Yin and Andersen. The results indicate that the lack of consideration of radiation heat transfer in the oxy-fuel combustion leads to a large error in the prediction of the maximum and average temperature distributions inside the furnace. Also, the DO model has less error than P1 model due to more heat loss prediction by P1 model in the low optical thickness. The WSGGM model for calculating of absorption and emission coefficients provide the best result in comparison with other methods. The refined 4-step Jones-Lindstedt mechanism by Andersen has best prediction of on the basis of numerical simulations.