TY  - JOUR
AU  - Milićević, Aleksandar
AU  - Belošević, Srđan
AU  - Crnomarković, Nenad Đ.
AU  - Tomanović, Ivan D.
AU  - Stojanović, Andrijana D.
AU  - Tucaković, Dragan
AU  - Lei Deng
AU  - Che, Defu
PY  - 2021
UR  - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/9916
AB  - The co-combustion of biomass and coal in a utility boiler could provide cleaner power production and ensure sustainable utilization of the solid fuels. This paper aims to numerically investigate complex processes in the tangentially-fired 900 MWth boiler furnace during direct co-firing of lignite and biomass with 10% thermal share of agricultural residues (wheat straw, corn straw and soybean straw) under variable boiler loads (100%, 85% and 70%). Simulations are conducted by means of in-house developed computer code, supported by the specially designed user-friendly graphical interface. Co-firing of agricultural residues provides lower pollutant emissions, somewhat higher furnace exit gas temperature and increase in unburnt carbon in bottom/fly ash, compared to the lignite combustion without biomass. Soybean is found to be the most suitable for co-firing regarding its ash melting point, however due to its abundance and availability the wheat straw is selected for this study. Co-combustion at partial boiler loads results in reduction of NOx and SOx up to 34% and 9.5%, respectively. Burners arrangement and furnace aerodynamics affect the abatement of pollutants. This study may help the global efforts in fighting the climate change, efficiently and cost-effectively, thus offering considerable economic and social benefits.
T2  - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
T1  - Numerical study of co-firing lignite and agricultural biomass in utility boiler under variable operation conditions
VL  - 181
SP  - 121728
DO  - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121728
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Milićević, Aleksandar and Belošević, Srđan and Crnomarković, Nenad Đ. and Tomanović, Ivan D. and Stojanović, Andrijana D. and Tucaković, Dragan and Lei Deng and Che, Defu",
year = "2021",
abstract = "The co-combustion of biomass and coal in a utility boiler could provide cleaner power production and ensure sustainable utilization of the solid fuels. This paper aims to numerically investigate complex processes in the tangentially-fired 900 MWth boiler furnace during direct co-firing of lignite and biomass with 10% thermal share of agricultural residues (wheat straw, corn straw and soybean straw) under variable boiler loads (100%, 85% and 70%). Simulations are conducted by means of in-house developed computer code, supported by the specially designed user-friendly graphical interface. Co-firing of agricultural residues provides lower pollutant emissions, somewhat higher furnace exit gas temperature and increase in unburnt carbon in bottom/fly ash, compared to the lignite combustion without biomass. Soybean is found to be the most suitable for co-firing regarding its ash melting point, however due to its abundance and availability the wheat straw is selected for this study. Co-combustion at partial boiler loads results in reduction of NOx and SOx up to 34% and 9.5%, respectively. Burners arrangement and furnace aerodynamics affect the abatement of pollutants. This study may help the global efforts in fighting the climate change, efficiently and cost-effectively, thus offering considerable economic and social benefits.",
journal = "International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer",
title = "Numerical study of co-firing lignite and agricultural biomass in utility boiler under variable operation conditions",
volume = "181",
pages = "121728",
doi = "10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121728"
}

Milićević, A., Belošević, S., Crnomarković, N. Đ., Tomanović, I. D., Stojanović, A. D., Tucaković, D., Lei Deng,& Che, D.. (2021). Numerical study of co-firing lignite and agricultural biomass in utility boiler under variable operation conditions. in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 181, 121728.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121728

Milićević A, Belošević S, Crnomarković NĐ, Tomanović ID, Stojanović AD, Tucaković D, Lei Deng, Che D. Numerical study of co-firing lignite and agricultural biomass in utility boiler under variable operation conditions. in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2021;181:121728.
doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121728 .

Milićević, Aleksandar, Belošević, Srđan, Crnomarković, Nenad Đ., Tomanović, Ivan D., Stojanović, Andrijana D., Tucaković, Dragan, Lei Deng, Che, Defu, "Numerical study of co-firing lignite and agricultural biomass in utility boiler under variable operation conditions" in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 181 (2021):121728,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121728 . .