Nt1310 Unit 2 Lab

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Figure 2.10 and 2.11 shows the simulation results acquired, with Figure 2.10 for the fuel water contents expressed in cold gas efficiency (left Y, based on HHV) and C and H conversions (right Y) and Figure 2.11 for the necessary conditions including the circulation rate of heat carrier particles (left Y) and the amount of auxiliary fuel fed to the combustor (right Y). The displayed circulation rate in Figure 2.11(left Y) refers to the specific value over the treated dry fuel amount, while the auxiliary fuel feed amount (right Y) indicates the value without heat loss from the system. As anticipated, the available cold gas efficiency and C and H conversions (Figure 2.10) all decrease with raising the water content in the fuel. The higher the fuel water content, the more the heat required to vaporize the water and to heat the resulting steam to the gasifier temperature (here 1073 K). …show more content…
This outlet temperature is necessarily kept until the downstream scrubber to avoid the possibly substantial deposition of tars on the involved pipeline. Hence, the higher water content means the more C needed to be combusted to maintain the temperature of the combustor as well as of the fuel gasifier, lowering consequently the C amount for gas production. The converted H also decreases because the decreased C amount for steam gasification reduces the converted H from H2O (i.e. steam). Corresponding to the simulation conditions that 99% of the tars is reformed and the combusted char is almost free of H, the resulting H conversion is always higher than 100%. When no heat loss is considered, the available cold gas efficiency can be over 80% for fuels with water content lower than 40 wt. %. In order to reach a cold gas efficiency of 85%, the fuel’s water content has to be lower than 10 wt.