Abstract
Three kinds of pulverized coals were burnt in a laboratory-scale drop tube furnace, and an 8-stage Andersen particle impactor was employed for separating and sampling the ash particles after the pulverized coals combusting, in order to study the enrichment characteristics of trace elements in primary particulate matter during coal combustion. The PM samples were analysed by ICP-AES, the concentration values of Cr, Ni, Pb, Cu, and Zn are acquired. Then relative enrichment ratio (R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ER</sub> ) is defined to compare the concentration variation in ash PM deposited on grading filters. The results have been shown that the trace elements concentration present increasing trend with the PM size minimize. The R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ER</sub> values of these five trace elements present principles as Pb>Zn>Cu>Ni in turn, which lines in the sequence of the metal melting point from lower to higher, the case of Cr differed from coal to coal. The result of theoretical analysis was that in the continuum medium region (Kn<<1), the concentration of the condensed species (C <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</sub> ) follows a trend prop 1/d <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</sub> <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> , and the better the correlation relation of C <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</sub> and 1/d <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</sub> <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> is, the greater the value of R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ER</sub> is, the stronger the volatility of trace element is. But the enrichment extent of trace elements is different from various coals combustion, accordingly, the extent of vaporized trace elements homogeneous condensation to submicron PM or heterogeneous condensation on existing particles is different, which is also illustrated and demonstrated by the SEM images of submicron PM.
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