A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance

This paper presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of a partial combustion lance (PCL) aiming to evaluate the effect of oxygen flowrate on its performance. At first, the modelling strategy was developed by evaluating the effect of discretization, pressure interpolation scheme and tu...

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Main Authors:	Law, Woon Phui, Jolius, Gimbun
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Published:	Taylor's University 2015
Subjects:	TP Chemical technology
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spelling	ump-74242019-10-03T08:09:07Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7424/ A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance Law, Woon Phui Jolius, Gimbun TP Chemical technology This paper presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of a partial combustion lance (PCL) aiming to evaluate the effect of oxygen flowrate on its performance. At first, the modelling strategy was developed by evaluating the effect of discretization, pressure interpolation scheme and turbulence models on the prediction accuracy. Three turbulence models namely standard kε (SKE), realizable k-ε (RKE) and renormalized (RNG) k-ε were used. Combustion was modelled using the species transport model, whereas the heat transfer was calculated by considering a combined convection-radiation boundary condition. The best CFD prediction was obtained using the thirdorder MUSCL, PRESTO pressure interpolation scheme and SKE, yielding an error of 4.79% from the experimentally measured temperature. It was found that 40% increase in oxygen flowrate increased the peak combustion temperature of the PCL by about 12%. Dual lance was found to be more effective than the single lance operating at a similar flowrate. The finding obtained from this work may be useful for design retrofits of a PCL. Taylor's University 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/7424/4/fkksa-2015-jolius-cfd%20study%20of%20a%20partial%20combustion%20lance.pdf Law, Woon Phui and Jolius, Gimbun (2015) A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 10 (S. I.). pp. 68-78. ISSN 1823-4690 http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/Special%20Issue%203_SOMCHE_2014/SOMCHE%202014_3_2015_068_078.pdf
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description	This paper presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of a partial combustion lance (PCL) aiming to evaluate the effect of oxygen flowrate on its performance. At first, the modelling strategy was developed by evaluating the effect of discretization, pressure interpolation scheme and turbulence models on the prediction accuracy. Three turbulence models namely standard kε (SKE), realizable k-ε (RKE) and renormalized (RNG) k-ε were used. Combustion was modelled using the species transport model, whereas the heat transfer was calculated by considering a combined convection-radiation boundary condition. The best CFD prediction was obtained using the thirdorder MUSCL, PRESTO pressure interpolation scheme and SKE, yielding an error of 4.79% from the experimentally measured temperature. It was found that 40% increase in oxygen flowrate increased the peak combustion temperature of the PCL by about 12%. Dual lance was found to be more effective than the single lance operating at a similar flowrate. The finding obtained from this work may be useful for design retrofits of a PCL.
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author	Law, Woon Phui Jolius, Gimbun
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title	A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance
title_short	A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance
title_full	A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance
title_fullStr	A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance
title_full_unstemmed	A CFD Study Of A Partial Combustion Lance
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