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Large eddy simulation of Cambridge bluff-body coal (CCB2) flames with a flamelet progress variable model

Xing, J; Luo, K; Chen, Y; Stein, OT; Kronenburg, A; Luo, KH; Hasse, C; (2021) Large eddy simulation of Cambridge bluff-body coal (CCB2) flames with a flamelet progress variable model. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute , 38 (4) pp. 5347-5354. 10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.020. Green open access

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Abstract

In the present study, we report the first large eddy simulation (LES) study of the Cambridge CCB2 coal flames, one of the target flames in the Workshop on Measurement and Simulation of Coal and Biomass Conversion, with an extended flamelet progress variable (FPV) model. The extended FPV model is based on two mixture fractions considering the volatiles and char off-gases. The normalized total enthalpy is used for the interphase heat transfer modelling. Turbulence-chemistry interaction is treated with an assumed probability density function approach. The results show that the present LES can generally capture the flow field and particle distribution, while there are considerable deviations in the OH prediction due to the boundary treatment of using a mixture of volatiles and carrier gas to replace the methane-containing mixtures in the primary and pilot flow. It indicates that for such gas-assisted coal flames, the pilot fuel stream needs to be rigorously considered in the flamelet tabulation that could be resolved by extending the two-mixture-fraction model into a three-mixture-fraction model. The instantaneous Lagrangian particles histories show that the increasing of coal load has a negligible effect on devolatilization, but delays the char conversion.

Type: Article
Title: Large eddy simulation of Cambridge bluff-body coal (CCB2) flames with a flamelet progress variable model
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.020
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2020.08.020
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Large Eddy Simulation, Coal combustion, FPV model, Cambridge coal flames
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10115990
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