Abstract
Two interconnected mathematical models have been developed to describe slagging of a steam boiler furnace at the macro and micro levels. The macro-level model is implemented in Ansys Fluent. Using the fuel characteristics and temperature in the furnace, this model can predict the characteristics of ash formation on heat exchanger tubes when the melting temperature of the mineral part of solid fossil fuel is exceeded. The obtained values of slagging rates are used as initial data in the software implementation of the original Matlab microlevel model. Under conditions of dynamic change in the thickness of the slag layer, this model can evaluate the heat transfer characteristics in the hot gas/slag layer/tube wall/water coolant system. The results showed that switching a coal-fired boiler from a solid fossil fuel to a fuel slurry will improve stability and uninterrupted boiler operation due to a lower slagging rate. The combustion of coal water slurries with petrochemicals compared with coal–water fuel is characterized by higher maximum temperatures in the furnace (13–38% higher) and a lower average growth rate of slag deposits (5% lower), which reduces losses during heat transfer from flue gases to water coolant by 2%.
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