The energy efficiency of gas turbine using LNG as a fuel has reached to less than about 40% even for the H class gas turbine. To increase the energy efficiency, in theoretical analysis, the maximum value of fuel efficiency can be obtained via the equally large value of the mixing rate and reaction rate in the harmonic-mean type overall reaction rate expression. Even if the delayed mixing rate can be overcome successfully by the strategy of the practically proved lean-burn method, however, the critical problem caused by the retarded reaction rate caused by the excess air has to be solved in order to make any breakthrough of the engine or gas turbine fuel efficiency. To do this, a series of systematic numerical calculation has been made for the evaluation of the lean-burn CH4 flame feature with the addition of small amount of H2 or HHO (H2+1/2O2, water electrolysis gas). To maintain lean burn state, the flow rate of methane was greatly reduced less than 50% of the standard flow rate. The addition of HHO or H2 heating value has increased steadily from 5, 10 and up to 20% of the 100% CH4 flow rate. And investigation of flame characteristics such as peak flame temperature and its location together with the temperature profile has been made through numerical calculation for a gas turbine combustor. For the standard case of 100% CH4 injection, the flame temperature profile was observed to increase steadily from the primary combustor region to gas turbine inlet. This is exactly corresponds to the temperature profile appeared in a heating process with constant pressure assumption in a typical Brayton cycle. However, for the case of co-burning with H2 or HHO with only 40 and 50% CH4 injection, the peak flame temperature appears near the upstream primary region and decreases significantly along the downstream toward turbine inlet. A detailed discussion further has been made for the flame characteristics with the change of added fuel amount and its type. In summary, the addition of the H2 and HHO gas with the reduced amount of the CH4 flow rate results in quite different temperature profile expected from the standard Brayton cycle. Further this kind of flame feature suggests the possibility of high fuel efficiency together with the reduction of the metallurgical thermal damage of the turbine blade due to the decreased gas temperature near turbine inlet.

Waste management has become a very crucial issue in many countries, due to the ever-increasing amount of waste material. Recent studies have focused on an innovative technology, gasification that has been demonstrated to be one of the most effective and environmentally friendly methods of solid waste treatment and energy utilization. In this study, a gasification process has been investigated systematically by numerical simulation, in order to obtain optimum design conditions for a commercial-scale facility of an updraft fixed-bed gasifier. Turbulent flow field was calculated with the incorporation of the proper flow model for turbulence and inertial resistance for the porous region of SRF loading. The calculated temperature and pressure drop (ΔP) at exit of the gasifier were in good agreement with measured values. Next, a detailed thermochemical model was employed to estimate the syngas composition by gasification. Results showed that a better plant solution depends on both the air-fuel ratio (AFR) and the steam and carbon mole ratio (S/C). In this study, the gasification efficiency was best at an AFR of 0.25-0.3 and an S/C below 0.5.

Even though removal of fluoride in HF wastewater by crystallization using a fluidized bed reactor (FBR) has been widely studied as an efficient alternative to the chemical precipitation method using traditional stirred tank reactor, serious problems have been encountered for the optimum design of FBR together with the determination of proper operating conditions. One problem is the proper formation of the fluidization state of the seed as a function of seed particle characteristics such as particle size and density. Because dynamics in the reactor are governed by forces such as gravity, drag, and buoyancy as a function of particle size, particle density, relative velocity together with flow characteristics, this study carefully examines the effects of these factors on the formation of fluidization via theoretical analysis and numerical calculation in fluidized bed reactors in the range of practical design and operation condition. The results of this study show the overall trend of the motion of particle behavior in terms of particle size and flow condition.

The synthetic gas obtained from the gasification of waste material becomes more important not only in waste reduction but also for the generation of clean energy directly applicable to industrial combustors firing LNG fuel without any major modification of the boiler system. Therefore, in this study, a systematic calculation was made for the turbulent reaction inside a conventional LNG combustor to determine the temperature distribution and fluid flow field. By doing this, the syngas obtained from gasification of combustible waste could be evaluated for the potential applicability of syngas as a substitute for LNG fuel in the industrial field. In this calculation, the ratio of the syngas amount to the LNG amount was fixed. That is, based on calorific value, 70% of the fuel was syngas and 30% was LNG. Since the calorific value of the syngas was different from that of LNG with a high energy density, the different volumetric flow rate was expected to give rise to a visible flow field change together with the local velocity. Thus, in this study, the swirl intensity and the inlet nozzle diameter were varied carefully in order to resolve the flow field and turbulence effects on the reaction characteristics of the co-burning flame. First of all, the calculation result of pure LNG combustion was made successfully as a reference and for evaluation of the code implementation. The results obtained from the numerical simulation of the burning of syngas in the LNG boiler could duplicate the combustion feature almost similar to that of 100% LNG fuels by changing the injection method of the syngas without any major change of the boiler system. The results suggested the high potential of syngas as an economic substitute for conventional LNG fuel.

A parametric study has been made numerically on the thermal incineration of CF4, one of the perfluorocarbons (PFCs) emerging recently as issues of public concern in a practical CDM incinerator developed for the thermal destruction of HFC-23. In doing this, a turbulent combustion model of the fast combustion approximation is reasonably assumed using the typical auxiliary fuel, CH4, for the supply of the heat, and the necessary species of hydrogen and oxygen atom. In addition, the performance of the stoichiometric gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen (H2+ 1/2 O2) was examined as a special auxiliary fuel not only in order to enhance the thermal destruction efficiency but also the reduction of the CO2 emission by the elimination or the reduction of the auxiliary fuel CH4 in this incineration process. The calculation results showed that the thermal destruction efficiency of CF4 using methane as an auxiliary fuel increases with the amount of methane. However, the thermal destruction efficiency did not reach a satisfactory level (i.e., < 95%), even with the application of a CH4 amount more than four times of the stoichiometric value. This is explained by the improper turbulent mixing effect between CH4, CF4 and air especially in a large scale practical incinerator employed for the destruction of HFC-23. For the case of H2+ 1/2 O2 as the auxiliary fuel, however, the thermal destruction efficiency, surprisingly, reached almost 100%, which shows the high potential of the thermal destruction of CF4 by the use of HHO gas. Further, a detailed evaluation for the effect of the turbulent mixing on the thermal destruction of CF4 will be quite necessary, considering operating conditions together with the type of auxiliary fuels.

These days, the development of various pre- and post-combustion techniques has been pursued in order to reduce the emission of CO2 in the fleet of coal-fired power plants, since it is of great importance to each country’s energy production while also being the single largest emitter of CO2. As part of this kind of research efforts, in this study, a novel burning method is tried by the co-burning of the pulverized coal with the stoichiometric mixture of the hydrogen and oxygen (H2+1/2O2) called as HHO. For the investigation of this idea, the commercial computational code (STAR-CCM+) was used to perform a series of calculation for the IFRF (International Flame Research Foundation) coal-fired boiler (Michel and Payne, 1980). In order to verify the code performance, first of all, the experimental data of IFRF has been successfully compared with the calculation data. Further, the calculated data employed with pure coal are compared with the co-burning case for the evaluation of the substituted HHO performance. The reduced amount of coal feeding was fixed to be 30% and the added amount of HHO to produce a similar flame temperature with pure coal combustion was considered as 100% case of HHO addition. This value varies from 100 to 90, 80, 60, 50, 0% in order to see the effect of HHO amount on the performance of pulverized coal-fired combustion with the 30% reduced coal feeding. One of the most important thing found in this study is that the 100% addition of HHO amount shows approximately the same flame shape and temperature with the case of 100% coal combustion, even if the magnitude of the flow velocity differs significantly due to the reduced amount of air oxidizer. This suggests the high possibility of the replacement of the coal fuel with HHO in order to reduce the CO2 emission in pulverized coal-fired power plant. However, an extensive parametric study will be needed in near future, in terms of the reduction amount of coal and HHO addition in order to evaluate the possibility of the HHO replacement for coal in pulverized coal-fired combustion.

Since HFCs does not contain Cl component, they are not harmful to the depletion of Ozone layer but require reduction especially due to the high GWP (global warming potential). The HFC 134a, known as one of typical refrigerant of HFCs is generally shown to be effectively thermally decomposed only above the temperature of 3,000oC. However, giving condition of sufficient water vapor and the temperature more than 800oC with large heating source like in calcination reactor or blast furnace, the thermal decomposition of HFC 134a will occur easily due the component of H and O contained in water vapor. In order to investigate this phenomenological finding appeared in large scale field test, a series of experimental investigation has been made for the thermal decomposition rate of HFC 134a as a function oxygen and HFC 134a flow rate for a small tubular reactor. In this experiment the wall temperature of tubular reactor was fixed to be 900oC. In order to verify and figure out the finding by experiment, numerical calculation has also been made for the detailed reaction of HFC 134a inside the tubular reactor. The comparison between experiment and numerical calculation are in good agreement each other especially for the rate of thermal destruction at the exit of the reactor. Further, considering the efficient thermal decomposition of HFC 134a in the H2O vapor environment with sufficient heating source, the application of the stoichiometric mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, that is, H2+ 1/2O2, is made numerically in the same tubular reactor, for the thermal decomposition of HFC 134a. The result appears physically acceptable and looks promising for the future method of the HFCs decomposition.

Proper management of refrigerant mixtures containing chlorine and fluorine are gaining worldwide interest in the recent years as, they contribute to global warming and ozone depletion. according to the Montreal Protocol, developed nations have substituted HCFCs in refrigerators and air conditions synthetic greenhouse gas (SGGs) refrigerants such as, R-10 (CCl4), R-23 (CHF3), and R-134a (CH2FCF3). SGGs contribute to the increasing global warming potential. incineration, conventional treatment method of R-134a leads generation of Freon gas, due to excess air during the deacon reaction and due to the flame inhibition of the halogen compound. Therefore, this study proposes on the effective thermal treatment (high-temperature pyrolysis) of R-134a using numerical analysis. R-134a is usually known to have reaction characteristics which degrade only at temperatures reaches 800℃ and contains sufficient moisture in the furnace, HFC-134a refrigerant is treated efficiently by following chemical reaction. C2H2F4+4H2O → 4HF+3H2+3CO2, 4HF+2Ca(OH)2 → 2CaF2+4H2O in this study numerical calculation is performed for the relevant variables. As a result, very positive preliminary results showed about HFC-134a refrigerant treatment. Base on this, in the following study, organized variable research and demonstration experiment will be performed.

The world consumption of the coal has been increased very sharply during past few years result from oil exhaustion, fluctuation in the price of oil and low price competitiveness of alternative energy. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that coal will be available for over 110 years, with coal reserves of close to 860 billion tons. The pulverized coal is blended coal powder that the particle diameter under 10μm. It has advantage of combustion efficiency and flame stabilization. The use of coal blends is becoming increasingly common in pulverized-coal power plants because it improves the economic performance of these plants by diversifying the fuel range. However, although blending can improve combustion behaviors and decrease gaseous pollutant emissions, it has difficulty of design and operating the pulverized coal combustor because despite the small particle size, combustion process of pulverized coal is exceedingly complex. Because of that the detail study on the combustion characteristic is important for increasing of efficiency. As a base investigation for numerical calculation of pulverized coal combustion, this study verified validity of models and compare the numerical calculation results with the experimental results.

Considering the high potential of the widely-used halogenated hydrocarbons on the global warming and ozone depletion, the development of effective thermal destruction methods of these compounds are quite urgent and indispensible. As part of the research efforts of this area, the destruction of CCl4 and flame characteristics have been investigated numerically by the co-firing CCl4 with CH4 in an industrial LNG-fired combustor as a function of molar ratio of the CCl4 to CH4 using a commercial code of STAR-CCM+. Considering a broad range of Damkohler number associated with the process of intensive CHCs (Chlorinated hydrocarbons) combustion with auxiliary fuel together with the inhibition reaction especially near flammability limits, a proper combustion modeling of CCl4 thermal destruction is quite desirable. In this study, however, after careful review of the literature about the flame characteristics of halogenated hydrocarbon together with the previous study about the modeling of the CCl4 flame based on the data of burning velocity, the eddy breakup turbulent combustion model was employed since it is quite reasonably assumed that chain branching reaction looks dominant in most flame region over the halogenated inhibition effect in strong turbulent reacting flows. One of the most useful results based on this study is that; without any incorporation of flame inhibition effect, the length of co-fired flame increases steadily as the ratio of CCl4 to CH4 (R) increases from 0.0, 0.1, 0.2 to 0.5, and 1.0 together with the increase of the maximum flame and exit gas temperature. The reason of the increase of the flame length with the increase of flame temperature can be explained by the presence of the additional CCl4 fuel with low heating value. Further a detailed discussion has been made on the thermal destruction of CCl4 together with the Cl2 concentration by Deacon reaction.

In order to ensure the high carbon conversion in a short residence time in a coal slurry entrained gasifier, the objectiveof this study lies in to investigate the effect of important variables to influence on the complex reacting flow and therebyto clarify the physical feature occurring inside the gasifier using a comprehensive gasifier computer program. To this end,the gasification process of a 1.0ton/day gasifier is numerically modeled using the code of Fluent and systematicallyinvestigated with the change of major design and operation parameters. Special emphasis is given on the effect of theparticle size distribution on the gasification process, since it is associated with various length and time scales via multi-phase and with complex reacting flows. Three different particle sizes are tested for a given coal mass flow rate, the firstis 70µm mean diameter with Rosin-Rammler distribution based on the actual measurement. But in the other two casestwo uniform mean particle diameters are employed, that is, very fine 1µm and 70µm with mean diameter itself. Thecalculation results of these three cases show quite different flow pattern, temperature and reacting flows probably causedby the different particle trajectory as well as reaction rate. However, the results obtained can be explained in a consistentmanner with particle size. Especially, it is noted that the presence of coal particle, the diameter of which is larger thanthat of mean diameter of Rosin-Rammler distribution, shows a significantly retarded gasification reaction in a gasifier,even if its mass fraction is less than 50%.

In this study, the waste gasification gas was co-fired with LNG and water electrolysis gas (or stoichiometrically well-mixed hydrogen oxygen gas) in order to see the change of flame characteristics compared to the standard case of wellknown LNG flame. In detail, a numerical study was made to figure out the fundamental combustion characteristics ofthe waste produced gas blended LNG or hydrogen-oxygen mixture gas flame in an existing industrial LNG combustor.As a preliminary study, the mixture of 70% synthetic gas blended with 30% LNG or hydrogen-oxygen mixture gas wascompared with pure LNG fuel with maintaining the same total input of heating value. Especially, the reason to includethe hydrogen-oxygen mixture gas, that is, the mixture of H2 and 1/2 O2, as a fuel is following:the hydrogen-oxygenmixture gas has a rather high heating value since it does not need air as oxidizer, which consists of 79% N2 as inertmaterial. The result shows that the case of mixture fuel with LNG exhibits more broadening flame shape than the 100%LNG flame. Further, it is observed that there is a phenomenon like a disappearance of CTRZ (Central ToroidalRecirculation Zone) and flame extinction showing partial lift-off of flame around strong swirl flow near burner. This kindof observation appeared in the case of blended fuel mixture is considered probably due to the increased effect of velocityand turbulence stress caused by the mass increase by the addition of low calorific fuel. However, the case of mixturefuel with hydrogen-oxygen mixture gas and water vapor does not show any flame instability phenomenon due to increasedflow rate as in LNG case.

The stoichiometric gas from an advanced alkaline electrolysis process as developed by Yull Brown is called as HHO gas or Brown gas. By this process, two moles of H2 and 1mole of O2 gases are generated stoichiometrically in a wellpremixed state. Due to the fact that very clean fuel can be obtained relatively easily by the simple equipment of electrolysis, the research of this gas has been continuously performed, even though the criticism has been made by many researcher of this area. The main controversial argument is in that the use of high quality electrical energy is used again for the generation of another combustible fuel with less than 100% efficiency in its energy transform. In fact, since Brown gas exists in the state of a completely mixed state only with oxygen molecule, there is no time delay due to turbulent mixing occurring in practical combustion process. Therefore, the high reaction rate is likely to have a high chance of backfire. Further, since there is no inert material like nitrogen as in air, the flame temperature rises unnecessarily high. In order to prevent the backfire phenomenon, the increase of injection velocity of fuel nozzle causes the formation of very unstable long flame with good chance of flame lift-off. One of practical application methods, the co-combustion of Brown gas with other fuel like gasoline and LNG, etc has been reported in open literature in order not only to increase the combustion efficiency but also for the reduction of pollutant emission such as NOx. In order to control the negative aspect of flame characteristics of Brown gas, in this study, an novel method is employed by premixing Brown gas with water vapor and the co-combustion performance and characteristics has been studied numerically for a combustor operated for kiln drying method. To this end, a commercial code(STAR-CCM+7.06) has been employed with the program verification against operational data of kiln drying combustor and a parametric numerical calculation has been made with the change of the amount of water vapor in the fuel mixture of Brown gas and water vapor. The calculation results show that the combustion feature looks quite stable without showing any unstable flame feature like long thin flame and backfire. Further temperature and streamline contours with the amount of water vapor content look consistent and physically acceptable. This result suggests that the addition of water vapor in the Brown gas looks one of promising method for the use of Brown gas as clean fuel.

In this study, a gasification process has been investigated systematically by numerical method, in order to obtain design and operational concept for the gasification of RPF. A commercial scale of the facility of up-draft fixed bed gasifier was considered with the ignition by plasma torch. Turbulent reacting flow was calculated with the incorporation of the appropriate flow model for the turbulence in free space and inertial resistance for the porous region of waste loading. Further a detailed thermochemical model was employed for estimating the syngas composition by gasification. This study, focused on the S/C (steam/carbon mole ratio) and ER (Equivalence ratio) to show effective gasification process. Results show that better solution of the combined combustion and gasification process strongly and in a delicate manner depends on both equivalence ratio (ER) and steam and carbon mole ratio (S/C). This optimization of the gasifier is evaluated for the following ER (0.25, 0.35, 0.45), S/C (0.0, 2.2, 3). In this study, the gasification efficiency is the best at ER 0.35 and S/C 2.2.