Improvement study for the dry-low-NOx hydrogen micromix combustion technology

Abstract

The dry-low-NOx (DLN) micromix combustion principle is developed for the low emission combustion of hydrogen in an industrial gas turbine APU GTCP 36-300. The further decrease of NOx emissions along a wider operation range with pure hydrogen supports the introduction of the micromix technology to industrial applications. Experimental and numerical studies show the successful advance of the DLN micromix combustion to extended DLN operation range. The impact of the hydrogen fuel properties on the combustion principle and aerodynamic flame stabilization design laws, flow field, flame structure and emission characteristics is investigated by numerical analysis using an eddy dissipation concept combustion model and validated against experimental results.

Keywords

• Hydrogen
• NOx
• Emission reduction
• Micromix
• Jet in cross-flow
• Combustion