Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 165, Issue 3, Pages 902-906Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.09.059
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Coal; Char; Combustion; Fluidized bed; Oxyfiring
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Combustion of single coal char particles was studied at 850 degrees C in a lab-scale fluidized bed at high CO2 concentration, typical of oxyfiring conditions. The burning rate of the particles was followed as a function of time by continuously measuring the outlet CO and O-2 concentrations. Some preliminary evaluations on the significance of homogeneous CO oxidation in the reactor and of carbon gasification by CO2 in the char were also carried out. Results showed that the carbon burning rate increases with oxygen concentration and char particle size. The particle temperature is approximately equal to that of the bed up to an oxygen concentration of 2%, but it is considerably higher for larger oxygen concentrations. Both CO2 gasification of char and homogeneous CO oxidation are not negligible. The gasification reaction rate is slow and it is likely to be controlled by intrinsic kinetics. During purely gasification conditions the extent of carbon loss due to particle attrition by abrasion (estimated from the carbon mass balance) appears to be much more important than under combustion conditions. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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