K. R. G. Hein

Coal/biomass co-gasification in a pressurised fluidised bed reactor

Biomass and coal co-gasification is performed using a 1.5 MWth pressurised bubbling fluidised bed gasifier in the framework of a 3 year multinational EU JOULE project concerning research on efficient, environmentally acceptable large scale power generation systems based on IGCC technology.

Gas turbine combustor for biomass derived LCV gas, a first approach towards fuel-NOx modelling and experimental validation

The section Thermal Power Engineering of Delft University of Technology operates a 1.5 MW pressurised fluidised bed gasification rig, including a hot gas cleaning unit and a pressurised downscaled Alstom gas turbines combustor. Regarding the combustion of low calorific value (LCV) gas, experiments are done to validate models describing turbulent steady state combustion. In this paper biomass derived LCV gas combustion experiments are described. The heating value of the gas was in the range of 2.5?4 MJ/mn3 and the process pressure was 3?8 bar. In all experiments, good combustion efficiency was observed. NOx formed, resulted from NH3 fueltextitnitrogen conversion to NOx was in the range of 10?60

Pressurised Combustion of Biomass-Derived, Low Calorific Value, Fuel Gas

During a 3 year (1996 – 1998) project, partly funded by the EU as part of their JOULE 3 programme, experimental and theoretical research will be done on the pressurised combustion of biomass-derived, LCV, fuel gas.

Combustion of Coal-Derived Fuel Gas in an Oxygen-Blown Pressurized Topping Combustor

Advanced integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants promise to be efficient and environmentally friendly systems to utilise solid fuels for the production of electricity and heat. An IGCC system consists of a gasifier, producing a low calorific value (LCV) fuel gas, and a gas turbine in which the LCV fuel gas is being combusted. At this time some demonstration IGCC plants have been commissioned in the United States and Europe. A sound understanding of the interaction between the gasifier and the gas turbine combustor is critical for successful operation of an IGCC system. Reliable theoretical and experimental information on the characteristics of the gas turbine as a whole and the combustor as such, leading to this information is needed prior to commercialisation of these IGCC systems. The combustion of natural gas in gas turbine combustors has been studied extensively. The combustion of coal-derived LCV fuel gas however has been studied in much less detail.To obtain more fundamental data on the combustion of LCV fuel gas, a 1.5 MW pressurised fluidised bed gasifier (PFBG) with a separate pressurised topping combustor (PTC) has been designed, built and operated at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). The maximum system pressure is 10 bar. Experiments have been performed at 8 bar, using recirculated flue gas, steam and oxygen as gasifying agents. The produced LCV fuel gas is combusted in an oxygen blown PTC. In this way a flue gas with a high carbon dioxide concentration can be obtained from which the carbon dioxide can be removed more easily than from flue gases. A numerical model has been constructed to simulate the combustion of the LCV fuel gas in the PTC.A detailed description of the test rig will be given. The first experimental results will be described and compared with simulation results obtained with the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics code Fluent version 4.3. Finally the future work will be described.© 1997 ASME