Experimental and numerical simulation of effects of CO2/N2 concentration and initial temperature on combustion characteristics of biomass syngas

Abstract

Biomass syngas is a form of renewable energy with very broad application prospects, and it has different combustion characteristics according to the fuel composition and processing technology of biomass syngas. The influence of combustion composition, diluent and temperature variation on combustion characteristics were studied in this paper. The FFCM-1 mechanism was used to investigate the combustion characteristics of CO/CH4/H2 under varied diluents CO2/N2 and temperature by using spherical expansion flame method and ANSYS CHEMKIN-PRO. The experimental laminar burning velocity was compared with the simulation results of FFCM-1 mechanism. The results reveal that the experimental data are in good agreement with the simulation results, which are somewhat different under the condition of rich fuel. The laminar burning velocity decreases significantly with the increase of diluent CO2/N2, with the effect of diluent CO2 being more significant. The laminar burning velocity increase dramatically with the increase of initial temperature, and the adiabatic flame temperature also decreases with the increase of diluent. The reduction caused by diluent CO2 is much larger than that caused by diluent N2. The change of initial temperature also affects the adiabatic flame temperature, but the range of variation is not as pronounced as that of diluent. Not only was the interaction between the combustion characteristics of CO/CH4/H2 under different diluents and temperature changes explored in this paper, but the influence mechanism was also revealed in depth.

Keywords

• Bio-syngas
• CO2 and N2 effect
• Initial temperature
• Equivalence ratio
• Sensitivity analysis